Jerry Nixon is a Principal Program Manager on the SQL Server team focused on the Data API builder. He’s also a fanatic for #CSharp, #StarTrek, and Etymology. He also serves as a professor at Colorado Christian University.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:34] Why Jerry describes his life as a pearl necklace.
[5:15] Jerry recommends the book Never Eat Alone and the importance of community.
[6:01] How engineers and parenting are aligned.
[7:02] Jerry reflects on Microsoft’s history of evangelism, the rise of “opinionated” frameworks, and how .NET Aspire revives a form of proven prescriptive guidance.
[9:35] Prescriptive guidance.
[12:03] The inevitable evolution of .NET Aspire and how it simplifies container-based development by handling orchestration behind the scenes.
[16:56] Paying more attention and awareness to the developer community.
[18:30] How GraphQL fits into the Data API Builder experience, giving developers flexibility without needing to write complex backends.
[21:40] Jerry talks about community feedback on Data API Builder and how real-world use cases help prioritize features and fix gaps in tooling.
[31:02] Jerry’s perspective on building container-based solutions.
[32:15] Data API Builder’s community involvement and upcoming features.
[36:15] Docker Desktop.
[38:58] The architectural concept of Data API Builder.
[44:42] C# coding conventions at Microsoft and the friendly battles over things like naming, underscores, and formatting styles across internal teams.
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