Chris Pietschmann

Managing AI-Ready Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure using HashiCorp Terraform

Sep 15, 2025

Manage Your AI-Ready Infrastructure Properly Through Automation

Unlocking Legacy Code with AI: How GitHub Copilot is Revolutionizing System Modernization

Sep 1, 2025

Use AI to Decode Legacy Code, Document Critical Logic, and Accelerate Your Cloud Migration Strategy

How AI Agents and RAG Patterns Are Supercharging Enterprise Applications

Aug 25, 2025

Unlocking Real-Time Intelligence and Autonomy in Enterprise Systems with AI-Powered Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

AI Code Generation: The Future of Software or a Shortcut to Technical Debt?

Aug 18, 2025

How AI is transforming software developmentand what leaders need to watch out for

Pets, Cattle, and the “Should We Build This?” Trap (Even When AI Makes Building Easy)

Dec 17, 2025

How to Convert a String to an Enum and back in C#

Dec 17, 2025

Why Blogs Are Still Relevant Today for Developers and IT Pros

Dec 16, 2025

100× Your Software Development Skills: How AI is the Next Big Leap

Nov 4, 2025

Chris Pietschmann Awarded 2025 Microsoft MVP in Microsoft Azure and Developer Technologies Categories

Jul 10, 2025

Writing Testable Code is More Important Than Unit Tests

Jul 1, 2025

AI is Just a Tool - The Journey Still Belongs to People

May 30, 2025

Yes, I'm a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and MCT - and I Still Build Real Stuff

Apr 17, 2025

Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI

Practical guide to building and deploying cloud-native applications

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900 Exam Ref)

Get Started with Azure AI and Machine Learning

Designing AI-Ready Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure

Build Scalable, Secure, and Future-Ready AI Systems with Azure

The Developer's Guide to Azure

Published 2020 - The Developer's Guide to Azure is designed for Developers & Architects who are starting their journey into Microsoft Azure.

Azure Migration Readiness Whitepaper

Published 2019 - A whitepaper about Azure Migration published by Microsoft that I co-wrote with Dan Patrick.

The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification

Published 2019 - Advance your career through cloud certification

Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks

Published 2019 - The Cloud Practice Development Playbooks provide the essential blueprints and tools to develop, analyze, manage, and secure an effective cloud practice.

Powergentic.ai

Embrace the Power of Next-Generation AI to build intelligent generative AI solutions, multi-agent applications and workflow automation that drives enterprise innovation and efficiency.

Build5Nines.com

A website (with weekly newsletter) dedicated to Cloud & Enterprise Technology around Microsoft and Open Source publishing articles and related content. Founded in 2015 as BuildAzure.com, and renamed Build5Nines.com in late 2019.

Pietschsoft.com

I've been blogging here since 2003. I have published articles on a variety of topics.

Hackster.io

I have published Internet of Things (IoT) related content on Hackster.

Build5Nines SharpVector

Lightweight, In-memory, Semantic Search, Text Vector Database to embed in any .NET Applications; includes local, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Ollama embeddings generation support.

Build5Nines/naming/azure

Terraform module (in the Terraform Registry) to provide consistent naming conventions for Azure resources.

Build5Nines Terraform QuickStart Templates

A collection of HashiCorp Terraform templates to quickly get started with deploying common infrastructure patterns to Microsoft Azure.

Azure/naming/azurerm

Official Microsoft Azure Terraform module to help keep Azure resource naming consistency.

Awesome AZD

I have authored and contributed multiple Azure Developer CLI (`azd`) templates to this Microsoft curated list of awesome `azd` templates.

Open WebUI

I have contributed some code to better support Microsoft Azure to the Open WebUI project; User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool

The Azure Cosmos DB Desktop Data Migration Tool is an open-source project containing a command-line application that provides import and export functionality for Azure Cosmos DB.

Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Certification

I worked with Microsoft to create the Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (AZ-220 Exam) certification. I worked to define the Azure IoT Developer roles skills list and the Objective Domains for the AZ-220 certification exam.

AZ-220 Azure IoT Developer Certification Hands-on Labs

I wrote the hands-on labs for the official Microsoft (MOC) training content for the AZ-220 Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification and published to MS Learn.

powergentic/azd-mcp-csharp

An AZD template to deploy a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server written in C# to Azure Container Apps using SSE Transport.

powergentic/azd-mcp-ts

An AZD template to deploy a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server written in TypeScript to Azure Container Apps using SSE Transport.

build5nines/azd-litellm

An AZD template to deploy LiteLLM, open-source Python AI LLM Proxy API with support of 100+ LLMs, to Azure Container Apps with Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

build5nines/azd-react-bootstrap-dashboard

A multi-tier app with a dashboard front-end (React + Bootstrap) hosted in Azure Static Web Apps and back-end API (Node.js) hosted in Azure App Service

build5nines/azd-csharp-api-swagger

An Azure Developer CLI (azd) template to deploy a C# API with Swagger UI to Azure App Service.

Microsoft PostgreSQL Solution Accelerator: Build your own advanced AI Copilot with Postgres

I was an author on this Microsoft solution accelerator is designed as an end-to-end example of an AI-enabled application built on Azure Postgres.

Azure Cosmos DB + Azure OpenAI Node.js Developer Guide

I authored this developer guide for Microsoft.

Azure Cosmos DB + Azure OpenAI Python Developer Guide

I authored this developer guide for Microsoft.

Azure Cosmos DB + Azure OpenAI Developer Guide Front End Application

I authored this pre-built front-end application, written in React, to be used with the Azure Cosmos DB + Azure OpenAI Developer Guides.

Microsoft Cloud Workshops

I authored several workshops to be delivered as 6 - 8 hour long training sessions (4-6 hour hands-on lab / 2 hour design session) to foster cloud learning and adoption for Microsoft employees and partners.

jHtmlArea

A simple, light weight, extensible WYSIWYG HTML Editor built on top of jQuery. This component allows you to easily display a WYSIWYG HTML Editor in place of any TextArea DOM Elements on the page.

jHash - `location.hash` -based Routes and Querystrings

jHash allows you to work with 'location.hash' value in a similar fashion to a server-side query string. It also supports cross-browser `hashchange` event handling and a hash-based Routing engine.

jslinq - LINQ to Javascript

LINQ to JavaScript (JSLINQ) is LINQ to Objects for JavaScript arrays, and adds power and flexibility of LINQ style queries to traditional JavaScript code.

Virtual Router

The created the original, open source Wifi Hotspot for Windows 7, 8.x and Windows Server 2012+ with over 10 MILLION downloads!

MJFChat: What's New with Azure Certifications

Jun 22, 2020

Mary Jo Foley and I discuss the latest Microsoft Azure certification news, and where start on your own certification journey.

Thirsty Developer: Episode #23 The Virtual Earth Edition

May 28, 2008

I talked with Larry Clarkin about the Virtual Earth platform, and how I got started on Virtual Earth, and provide an overview of the service.