Build 2026 shrank to two days at Fort Mason in San Francisco — 'real code, no fluff.' Agents became the platform, Microsoft shipped its own models, and Windows turned into an agent OS. It's also the first Build we haven't attended in person since 2012.
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PARDZ Fitness Company in Lengerich is the first customer and development partner for Xircuit, ThreeBIT's SaaS platform. Live since Grand Opening, 14 December 2024 — the full stack running an independent gym end-to-end.
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Ignite 2025 moved to San Francisco and put Judson Althoff — not Nadella — on the main stage. Microsoft renamed Azure AI Foundry to Microsoft Foundry, shipped Agent 365 to govern the coming flood of agents, gave Copilot a memory with Work IQ, and put Anthropic's Claude on Azure next to GPT. Here's what a Microsoft-stack shop in Ibbenbüren actually took home.
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Iron Software — makers of IronPDF, IronXL and IronWebScraper — recognises ThreeB IT for sustained partnership across logistics, healthcare, and SaaS projects.
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I earned GitHub Foundations (GH-900) in June 2025. Here's what the credential actually covers — Git and GitHub fundamentals, collaboration, Actions, Copilot, security, open source — and why a foundational GitHub certification matters when GitHub is the backbone of how we ship at ThreeBIT.
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Build 2025 ran four days in Seattle under one banner — 2024 was the year of the assistant, 2025 is the year of the agent. GitHub Copilot grew its own asynchronous coding agent, Agent Mode spread to every major IDE, Azure AI Foundry crossed into model-as-a-utility territory with Grok 3, NLWeb pitched itself as 'HTML for the agentic web,' and the Model Context Protocol quietly became the standard underneath all of it.
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I sat the AZ-104 exam and earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate in May 2025. Here's what the credential actually certifies — identity, storage, compute, networking, monitoring — and why an operations credential matters as much as developer skills when you run customer environments for a living.
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I earned the GitHub Actions certification (GH-200) in May 2025. Here's what the credential actually covers — workflows, actions, runners, security at scale — and why a CI/CD-automation cert matters for the daily plumbing that builds, tests and deploys everything we make at ThreeBIT.
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EU Business News recognised Thimo Buchheister as a winner of its German CEO Excellence Awards 2025, citing ThreeB IT's .NET-focused SaaS work for logistics and healthcare.
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Ignite 2024 in Chicago was where Microsoft put agents at the centre of the stack — autonomous agents in Copilot Studio, Copilot Actions, and the launch of Azure AI Foundry — while Fabric got a real database, Windows got a resiliency overhaul after CrowdStrike, and security got a $4M bug-bounty event.
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A short summary of where ThreeB IT shows up in the .NET, Mittelstand, and regional founder communities — with links to a dedicated post on each topic.
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Sessionize is the SaaS platform that turned the technical-conference CFP into a managed workflow. Thimo Buchheister's profile lists .NET, MAUI, Aspire, and the cross-cutting domain expertise.
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Build 2024 in Seattle put cloud-native .NET on a supported footing with Aspire's GA, launched a new class of NPU-equipped Copilot+ PCs, and shipped Recall — the feature that would spend the next month getting taken apart by security researchers. Our candid read from Ibbenbüren.
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Bitkom is Germany's federal digital-economy association — 2,300+ members, founded 1999. ThreeB IT joined via the Get-Started programme for startups. Here's what it actually gets us.
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (exam AI-102) in May 2024 — the hands-on counterpart to the AI-900 fundamentals. Here's what the credential actually certifies, from planning and securing Azure AI solutions to building generative AI with Azure OpenAI, RAG, computer vision and document intelligence, and how it shows up in production work for our regulated German customers.
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Thimo Buchheister has organised the Ibbenbüren .NET Meetup since 2017 — before ThreeB IT existed. 148 members, third Thursday of every month, in the Tivolino off the A30.
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The .NET Foundation is the independent 501(c)(6) that owns .NET's open-source brand outside of Microsoft. Thimo Buchheister holds a community speaker / organiser bio there — here's why that matters.
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (exam AI-900) in February 2024. Here's what the credential actually certifies — AI workloads and responsible AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP and generative AI — and why a foundations credential matters when you build AI features for regulated customers.
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Ignite 2023 in Seattle was where Microsoft declared itself 'the Copilot company,' rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, shipped Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric GA — and quietly revealed Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100, its first custom datacentre chips. We were in the room, and the silicon story is the one that still matters.
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Build 2023 was the AI inflection — Windows Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Studio, a shared plugin standard with OpenAI, and the Copilot stack. Three days in Seattle when 'add an AI feature' quietly turned into 'build a copilot.' Our notes from the room.
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Ignite 2022 ran the whole show under one slogan — 'do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud.' Entra became a real identity family, Defender for DevOps and CSPM previewed, Teams Premium and Syntex landed, and Microsoft slipped DALL·E 2 into Azure and a new Designer app — three weeks before ChatGPT changed everything.
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AZ-400 earned me Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert in July 2022 — my only expert-level Microsoft cert, built on the Azure Developer Associate I'd earned in January 2021. It's less about CI/CD scripts than about people, process, and the discipline of shipping value continuously.
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I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) in June 2022. Here is what the certification really covers — core data concepts, relational and non-relational data on Azure, analytics workloads — and why a data-foundations credential earns its keep when you ship data-heavy line-of-business systems.
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.NET MAUI reached general availability, Azure Container Apps went GA, Microsoft Dev Box and Project Volterra previewed, and Azure OpenAI Service opened up — the Build where the tools we use every day grew up. A long look back from Ibbenbüren.
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WESt mbH — the Steinfurt district economic-development agency — profiled ThreeB IT in its Gründungsgeschichten series. Why a county-level founder profile matters more than it sounds.
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The autumn edition of a doubled-up Ignite year. Microsoft Loop, Mesh for Teams, oontext IQ, Teams oonnect shared channels, Azure OpenAI Service and the first serious 'metaverse' pitch — what we took home from oedmond's busiest cadence yet.
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Build 2021 was three online days, but one of them mattered more than anyone realised: Power Apps shipped Microsoft's first product features powered by GPT-3. Add .NET 6 Preview 4 with Hot Reload, a 64-bit Visual Studio on the way, and Satya Nadella teasing 'the next generation of Windows' — and a quiet conference turned out to be a hinge.
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Gründen.nrw is North Rhine-Westphalia's official entrepreneurship podcast. Thimo Buchheister and Thorsten Brügge sat down with host Fabio Greßies for Folge 7.
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Why I sat AZ-204 in January 2021, what the Azure Developer Associate certification actually measures, and how it shows up in the .NET apps we build and run on Azure at ThreeBIT — App Service, Functions, storage, Key Vault and all.
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ThreeB IT sponsored .NET Conf 2020 — Microsoft's annual virtual .NET conference. The sponsor interview is on YouTube.
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Ignite 2020 was Microsoft's first fully digital flagship — free, 48 hours, run through Teams. It was also the show where the entire enterprise security portfolio collapsed into two Defender brands, and where 'digital resilience' became the framing for pitching XDR to the Mittelstand.
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In spring 2020 ThreeB IT shipped a nationwide COVID-19 testing platform end-to-end in two weeks. The PDF generation pipeline was running within hours of starting.
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Build 2020 was the first all-digital Build — a free, 48-hour stream born out of COVID-19. Blazor WebAssembly hit GA, Project Reunion and WinUI 3 arrived, Windows Terminal reached 1.0, WSL2 gained GPU and Linux GUI apps, winget went to preview, and Azure Static Web Apps launched. A look back from a company that watched it from home — and watched the next remote Build six years later.
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In May 2020 I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals — exam AZ-900. It was the first rung on my Azure certification ladder, and the reason I still tell every engineer at ThreeBIT to start here.
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We took the same logistics expertise we'd built ThreeB IT around — and pushed it through European Earth-observation data at a Copernicus Hackathon. Demo video included.
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Nine months after founding, ThreeB IT stood up its own booth in the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 — Arena Berlin, 11–12 December. It turned out to be the last Disrupt Berlin ever.
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Orlando, ~26,000 attendees, and around 175 announcements. Azure Arc put a control plane over every cloud and every basement server; Synapse, Project Cortex, Power Automate RPA, a Chromium Edge and Azure Quantum filled out the rest. Here's what we took from the last fully in-person Ignite before the world changed.
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Three days in Seattle where Microsoft drew the next half-decade on a whiteboard: WSL 2 with a real Linux kernel, Windows Terminal, the unified .NET 5 vision, Fluid Framework, Chromium Edge, and 'trust as a design principle.' We'd existed for ten weeks — and watched our entire bet get validated on stage.
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Thimo Buchheister and Thorsten Brügge founded ThreeB IT GmbH on 1 March 2019 to help logistics companies digitalise — Microsoft-stack software house, IT services from day one.
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