Microsoft Buys GitHub with Phil Haack
Microsoft acquires GitHub! What does this mean? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about what's going to change and what isn't - starting with, at least for the foreseeable future, Phil is not a Microsoft employee! GitHub is going to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, operated independently. But having Microsoft resources available does open some interesting doors - Phil talks about the vast amount of resources that Microsoft has to move quickly on cool features and projects around the open source world!
Guests:
Phil Haack
Phil Haack has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform. Prior to GitHub, he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft’s Open Source era. Phil is a co-author of GitHub for Dummies as well as the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He’s also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast. You can find him sharing his thoughts at https://haacked.com/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/haacked.
Links:
- Visual Studio IntelliCode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioExptTeam.VSIntelliCode
- Microsoft to acquire GitHub https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-github-for-7-5-billion/
- Linux Foundation Post on GitHub Acquisition https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/microsoft-buys-github-the-linux-foundations-reaction/
- Nat Friedman Reddit AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/
- Azure Functions https://azure.microsoft.com/services/functions/
- GitHub Webhooks https://developer.github.com/webhooks/
- Azure Cognitive Services https://azure.microsoft.com/services/cognitive-services/