Week 2 of The Hagrid Awards goes to Carsten Rachfahl — a one-person Hyper-V and Azure Local broadcast network, and MVP since 2010.
This week’s Hagrid goes to Carsten Rachfahl.
Carsten has been a pillar of the hybrid community for over a decade — a blog, a YouTube channel, the German Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast, and the Hyper-V Amigos. A one-person Azure Local and Hyper-V broadcast network. MVP since 2010.
Week 1 of The Hagrid Awards goes to Darryl van der Peijl — the connective tissue of the Azure Local community.
This week’s Hagrid goes to Darryl van der Peijl.
If you run anything Azure Local, you already know Darryl. He runs the community Azure Local Slack and the monthly Azure Local Insider newsletter — the connective tissue of this community, where people share what’s new, what’s broken, and what’s next. He’s a 12x Microsoft MVP and CTO at Splitbrain. He’s also the brains behind the Hybrid Platform Conference — a one-day Azure Local & hybrid cloud event in Amsterdam (Sept 28, 2026 at Hotel Casa), with a free virtual edition to follow.