The State of the Shell
summary
Sixty releases since 2019 and telemetry showing ~540 million monthly PowerShell sessions underscore real velocity; claims include 17 trillion cmdlets run in 2021 and 3 billion PowerShell Gallery downloads. Demos show a working Cloud Shell try-it per-resource az/PowerShell integration, a concise error view plus Get-Error, PSRedline predictive intellisense, practical ForEach-Object -Parallel with throttle, and a module generator Crescendo that wraps native tools and integrates SecretManagement elevation; DSC v3 beta is now open source.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Welcome and fifteen years of PowerShell
- 4:21PowerShell in automation
- 8:57PowerShell's design vow
- 13:53PowerShell pillars
- 17:21Features since 2019
- 19:16Azure Cloud Shell & SSH
- 24:10PowerShell 7 debugging
- 27:25Predictive IntelliSense
- 32:22Parallel processing
- 35:08Console styling
- 40:16Community insights
- 44:31Cross-platform automation with Crescendo
- 55:11SSH module deployment
- 57:58New predictors
- 59:22DSC V3 beta
- 1:00:26Closing & engagement
