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Join us in this exciting podcast episode where integration pioneer Tom shares his 25+ year journey in tech, from message-oriented middleware in 1998 to leading AI projects at Microsoft. Tom dives into how AI is revolutionizing integration as the "backbone" of modern systems - think generative AI agents automating home damage inspections in minutes, reducing manufacturing downtime, and transforming financial trading.

Join Dan Bass on the Azure on Air podcast as he interviews Microsoft MVP Bill Chestnut from Australia, diving into his journey from mainframe programming to modern integration expertise with BizTalk and Logic Apps.

Cortex is the leading internal developer portal that helps engineering teams ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. In this video, you’ll learn how Cortex empowers organizations to adopt best practices in DevOps and platform engineering while giving developers the tools they need to succeed. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, engineering leaders get visibility into service health, teams embrace best practices with ease, and developers gain a frictionless path to building high-quality software.

Cortex Workflows enable teams to streamline engineering processes, enforce best practices, and improve developer productivity with automation. In this video, we’ll show you how Cortex empowers engineering and platform teams to design, manage, and scale workflows that keep teams aligned and services reliable. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, teams can standardize processes across services, integrate automation into daily workflows, and gain visibility into engineering performance—all within a unified platform.

Nothing drains developer productivity like codebase maintenance. The endless cycle of dependency upgrades, bug fixes, refactoring, and paying down technical debt is tedious, error-prone work that pulls engineers away from building new features. Harness Autonomous Code Maintenance (ACM) turns these manual chores into automated, intent-driven workflows. Developers can now state their intent in plain English, with prompts like, "Upgrade the front end from React 15.6 to 16.4". From there, the Harness AI agent drives the workflow.

Many software engineers are experts in application code but not in the nuances of creating a production-ready delivery pipeline. Architect Mode acts as a seasoned DevOps expert, engaging the user in a conversation to design a pipeline that incorporates organizational best practices for security, quality, and compliance from the very beginning. It’s like having a personal DevOps architect as a partner.

We're making Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) more accessible with a natural language assistant. Developers can ask questions like, "What are the failing checks for my service's scorecard?" or "Who is the owner of a service?" to find metadata instantly. The agent also bridges the gap to action by suggesting and executing self-service workflows, like creating a new repo or onboarding a new engineer. It can even assist in generating new workflows, turning complex processes into simple conversational tasks.