// Gaming

Join members of the cloud community as they talk through what's top of mind, the latest trends, and have a bit of fun in a game or two! This takes place on the first Wednesday of each month

Chris is joined by LaBrina Loving, Developer Advocate for Gaming at Microsoft, who shares her journey from twenty years of .NET and enterprise development into the world of game development. The episode covers growing cloud adoption among game studios, the key technical differences between enterprise and game development (latency, UDP vs TCP), how enterprise development skills transfer directly to gaming, and practical tips for any developer considering the leap.

Chris plays Sea of Thieves with Johnny and Simon while discussing Johnny's upcoming Azure Quantum and Q# book with Apress, Simon's Azure certification journey from AZ-900 to AZ-500, in-person speaking at Welsh Azure User Group, and managing content creator energy levels.

Chris and community guests Dean, John, Matt, and Simon play Among Us while discussing Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise, AKS custom policy updates, Docker Desktop's new pricing model, and tips for multi-platform live streaming setups.

Chris Reddington is joined by Lee Williams to explore game streaming — the technology that streams a game to your device from cloud-hosted infrastructure, rather than running it locally. The episode covers how cloud economies of scale make low-latency game delivery viable, the consumer shift toward subscription models (Xbox Game Pass, Google Stadia), what the streaming model means for game creators building games as living services, and the future of multi-device gaming experiences.

Chris and community members sail the Sea of Thieves while covering Azure updates including Government Top Secret GA, ASP.NET app migration tooling, and Forrester Wave recognition for streaming analytics. GitHub updates include 2FA enforcement for git operations, Git 2.33, and Discussions GA, while the crew discusses Azure certification prep strategies, career transitions into DevOps, and the open-source Cloud Katana security assessment tool.

A community Among Us stream with twelve cloud professionals discussing Kubernetes trade-offs in production, Windows 365 Cloud PC versus Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Arc for multi-cloud app deployment, game engine choices between Unity and Unreal, and imposter syndrome in tech careers.

Chris and Simon play Sea of Thieves while covering Azure Firewall Premium features, 5G and cloud computing for IoT edge scenarios, GitHub Actions for static site deployments, and open source project best practices from a recent Cloud With Chris episode with JJ Asghar.

Chris plays Sea of Thieves with community members James, Simon, and Dean while delivering Azure updates on Bastion Standard SKU, Application Insights authentication, and Windows 365 from Microsoft Inspire. The episode also covers GitHub blog highlights including GitHub Copilot and Issues forms, plus a discussion on making Cloud with Chris more accessible.

Game streaming and esports have transformed gaming from a private pastime into a global spectator sport, with cloud infrastructure at the heart of that transformation. Chris is joined by Lee Williams to explore how platforms like Twitch and YouTube Gaming have built entire business ecosystems around low-latency live content delivery, the community dynamics that make streaming sticky, and where AR and VR technology will take esports spectatorship next.