Answered from Microsoft Distinguished Eng: His Principal Engineer Promotion Story | David Fowler · Ryan Peterman · 2026-10-21
David Fowler describes Kudu as an early Azure service he built with an architect, modelled on Heroku's idea of deploying an app instantly with a Git push. He notes that a company was already offering the same thing for .NET, and that Kudu still exists. A director pulled him off it to work on what became .NET Core.
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