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 – 2018.08.10

August 10th, 2018
Time for my favorite part of the week: sitting back on a Friday afternoon and catching up on the hard work going on in the DevOps community. And this week didn't disappoint, there were so many great stories that it was hard to pick just a few of my favorites.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.03

August 3rd, 2018
It's Friday, which means I get to kick back and catch up on all the news coming out of the Microsoft DevOps community. There's a bunch of great blog posts about DevOps, plus a new episode of the Radio TFS podcast and a new training class from one of our MVPs. Check out some of the top stories.

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27

July 27th, 2018
For many of us in the northern hemisphere, things are really heating up — both the temperature and the move into DevOps in the cloud. This week we saw some great posts on DevOps adoption, including cloud migration, moving to VSTS from on-premises TFS, and modernizing workflows with Azure DevOps Projects. Add DevOps To Your Existing ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.20

July 21st, 2018
This week I've been busy talking with Open Source developers and users at OSCON, explaining how VSTS can enable their builds with our hosted (or on-premises!) build agents. Meanwhile, we've seen some incredible podcasts and blog posts about DevOps in Azure. The DevOps Lab: Azure Automation Runbooks with PowerShell Damian Brady sits down with...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.13

July 13th, 2018
It's been another busy week for VSTS and DevOps, and we're excited to see some interesting articles and podcasts about DevOps on Azure. Moving a Git Repo from Bitbucket to VSTS One of the great things about Git is that it's easy to move your repository from one hosting provider to another - and maintain the full history along the way. Gerald...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.06

July 6th, 2018
Here's a quick look at the news around Microsoft DevOps — this week we've got a lot of great guidance around version control, Database DevOps, and deployments, plus some new software, including a Power BI template. Recover a Deleted VSTS Git Repo We use version control so that we can make sure that we can recover things when we delete ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.29

June 29th, 2018
It's another big week for DevOps stories — here's some of the things that I found interesting: Hello, Pulumi Joe Duffy announces Pulumi, a new cloud development platform that lets you write code — real code, not YAML — to compose and create cloud infrastructure. We're excited to take this for a spin and see how we can use ...

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.15

June 15th, 2018
DevOps 100 TechBeacon creates the DevOps 100 list - the top 100 leaders, practitioners and experts in DevOps that you should be following. It's no surprise that Microsoft employees made an impressive showing on this list: from the VSTS team, Sam Guckenheimer is the man to follow. For the DevOps Cloud Developer Advocates, Donovan Brown and ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.06.08

June 8th, 2018
In case you've just gotten back from a backpacking adventure where you had no internet, no telephones and no homing pigeons, then you may have missed out on the big news this week. Microsoft has agreed to acquire GitHub! (image) It's hard to imagine anything bigger, so this week we have a roundup of the top stories around this agreement. ...

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.06.01

June 1st, 2018
The big news that landed this week is that there's a security vulnerability in Git that can be hidden inside a repository. Please update your Git clients — but in the meantime, hosting providers like GitHub and VSTS are actively blocking these malicious repositories for your protection. Top Stories Data Governance, DevOps, and ...