Dev Talk is where we focus on the craft of building on the Microsoft stack — not just writing code, but engineering with intention. This is where we look at .NET, C#, TypeScript, Azure development, API design, solution architecture, ALM, Bicep / ARM, CI/CD, security-by-default patterns, dependency control, component models, performance optimisation, solution lifecycle, test automation and the shift toward cloud-native development as a default mindset rather than a niche specialty.
We do not treat “developer” as merely a role that types code.
We treat development as product engineering: understanding business context, modelling domains correctly, choosing the right abstraction level, validating assumptions, instrumenting for telemetry, building feedback loops, and coding with the idea that maintainability five years from now matters more than quick wins this sprint.
Dev Talk is also where we connect the pro-dev world with the rest of Microsoft’s platform. Low-code extension points, Power Platform pro-dev APIs, Fabric notebooks and data plane integration, Dynamics extensibility, Copilot orchestration patterns, Azure Functions, event-driven architectures, serverless boundaries, edge compute — and the real considerations of building software that lives inside a larger platform ecosystem.
Dev Talk is for people who care about code as an engineering discipline, not a feature factory. If it compiles, deploys, scales, integrates, instruments, or runs as part of the Microsoft cloud — it belongs in Dev Talk.
