Maik van der Gaag
Head of Technology Microsoft at Databalance · Microsoft Azure MVP
Maik van der Gaag is Head of Technology — Microsoft at Databalance, a consultancy and managed service provider with a strong Microsoft focus. He has over twenty years of experience in architecture, development, training and design, on projects ranging from cloud transformations to DevOps implementations.
He likes sharing knowledge: he speaks in public, writes at msftplayground.com and organizes events. Microsoft has recognized him as an Azure MVP. He also spoke at APE XXL 2025, on building your own Bicep extension.
Backstage Bicep: Exploring What's Next Before It Ships
Every Bicep release ships experimental features you can try — but some innovations are not in an official release at all. They sit behind a feature flag, or quietly wait to be merged from a pull request. A guided tour of what has not landed yet: installing the nightly CLI, running the new syntax improvements, and the behind-the-scenes work that changes how you write Bicep. Not for production.
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