Edward Thomson

Principal Program Manager, Azure DevOps

Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Azure DevOps, where he ensures that customers are successful with Git, CI/CD and DevOps concepts. Before becoming a Program Manager, he was a Software Engineer at GitHub and Microsoft working on Git tools.

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Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.12

April 12th, 2019
I'm back from a few weeks of travelling - a fun mix of conferences and holiday - and I'm happy to be home. I'm particularly excited that I'll be here in England for the Global Azure Bootcamp in just a few weeks. It's coming up on April 27, it's all about Azure and Cloud Computing, and it's taking place in locations across the world. So now I'...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.05

April 5th, 2019
The big news this week is the launch of Visual Studio 2019. If you weren't able to watch the video keynote live, don't worry. It was all recorded for you so you can watch it on-demand. And don't forget my favorite part: all the projects that you can build with Visual Studio 2019? You can also set up continuous integration builds for them with ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.29

March 29th, 2019
One of the embarrassing things that can happen to you when you travel a lot is that you start to forget what day of the week it is. When you fly out on a Sunday, spend some time in one place, then hop on another flight and work in a totally different place, you run the risk of not fully internalizing what day of the week it is. I mention this...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.15

March 15th, 2019
I've been building tools for Azure DevOps for fifteen years and yes, in case you were wondering, saying that does make me feel old. But more importantly: I'm still learning new things about it that I didn't know. That's why I'm so happy to read all these articles every week. It's not just about the cool things that people are doing, it's also ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.08

March 8th, 2019
It's been a busy week here on the Azure DevOps team - we've been busy putting the finishing touches on Azure DevOps Server 2019 and getting it out the door. Azure DevOps Server is the new name for Team Foundation Server - so now you can install the very latest version of our on-premises DevOps tools in your data center. While we weren't ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.03.01

March 1st, 2019
I don't know why but it seems like some weeks are just busier than others for everybody. And y'all have obviously been busy, because this week I got so many notifications about Agile, DevOps, GitHub and Azure DevOps articles in my inbox that it was hard to keep up. (But don't worry, the ones that I didn't have a chance to read this week are ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.22

February 22nd, 2019
Here in England, we've got some lovely spring-like weather coming for the weekend. I can't wait to put the computer away, get the grill out and enjoy the sunshine. But before I unplug, I wanted to share with you some of the great articles that I found this week around DevOps. Archie: Easy cross-compilation for busy developers It's not much of...

Cross-Platform Container Builds with Azure Pipelines

February 21st, 2019
This is a follow-up to Matt Cooper's earlier blog post, "Using containerized services in your pipeline". If you haven't yet, I encourage you to read that post to understand the new `container` syntax in the pipeline definition. As a program manager for Azure DevOps, I spend a lot of time speaking with customers about their DevOps ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.15

February 15th, 2019
I hope you had another great week - I certainly did! I had the good fortune to spend time building out some fun container-based Azure Pipelines builds for open source projects. Expect a blog post on that soon! In the meantime, here's some other great blog posts that I found this week. Using Azure DevOps Pipelines to Deploy Azure Functions ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.02.08

February 8th, 2019
Happy Friday! I hope you've had a great feel full of finding bugs, improving performance and keeping your services online. Now that you're cruising into the weekend, it's a good time to take a moment and read up on the state of DevOps. Here's some great articles (and a podcast) that I found this week.