This Week's Hagrid: Darryl van der Peijl
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.
Why Darryl earns a Hagrid: he runs the Azure Local community Slack and the monthly Azure Local Insider newsletter — and founded the Hybrid Platform Conference in Amsterdam.
Follow along: darrylvanderpeijl.com
The Hagrid Awards are my weekly tip-of-the-hat to the people keeping the Microsoft hybrid cloud community strong — the bloggers, speakers, podcasters, and doers who share what they know so the rest of us level up. Go give Darryl a follow, and drop a name in the comments for who deserves one next.
Presented by ThisIsMyDemo.cloud, in association with Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Celebrating the hybrid cloud community.
— Kristopher “Country Cloud Boy” Turner