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Have you ever wanted to deploy your code to the cloud, but felt overwhelmed by the complexity and options? Do you wish there was a way to learn the basics…

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, AI stands at the forefront of innovation. However, with great power comes great responsibility. As developers, we play a pivotal role in shaping…

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, AI stands at the forefront of innovation. However, with great power comes great responsibility. As developers, we play a pivotal role in shaping…

      Have you ever wanted a single place to go to learn all about Microsoft Copilot? Imagine having a website where you can find articles, videos, and hands-on…

Assume you joined an organization today that produces hundreds of independently deployed & hosted APIs and you now carry the responsibility of managing all these APIs from different teams across…

If you are a developer interested in learning more about Generative AI, "Generative AI for Beginners" is the perfect course for you. With 18 new video lessons, this open source…

Back in April I wrote a post on how to implement the Backend for Frontend (BFF) pattern with Azure Container Apps. At the time I said I would avoid bringing…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a hot topic in the tech world. For those of us in Belgium (or the Netherlands) with a passion for technology and science, one…

Introduction Integrating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Keycloak through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as an intermediary leverages Azure AD’s support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) to handle authentication and authorization.…

  Have you ever thought about having a single place to manage all your APIs? It could make it easier to find and control your services. Azure API Center is…

Previously, I shared with you how to use Phi-3-mini on AIPC's NPU and iPhone. Some people want to know more about the experience of using macOS and how to use…

Join us in July for a series of free live-streams sharing best practices for securing your AI apps on Azure. You'll learn about managed identity (keyless authentication), user sign-in with…

If you’ve ever engaged with the content on the Microsoft Learn platform, it's highly likely that the material you utilized was written or co-authored by dedicated contributors. These contributors, often…

  The platform engineering journey requires abundant information to make informed decisions. Understanding how developers use the platform—how frequently and for how long—is invaluable. Since the internal developer portal (IDP)…

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is one of the most promising uses for large language models. Instead of asking an LLM a question and hoping the answer lies somewhere in its…

I'm concerned by the number of times I've heard, "oh, we can do RAG with retriever X, here's the vector search query." Yes, your retriever for a RAG flow should…

Introduction If you have multiple Azure subscriptions, you might have experienced the frustration of logging into the wrong one with the az login command. This can cause errors and confusion…

Wiesbaden, Germany added 3,000+ tech enthusiast and hosted the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Cloud AI Pitch Competition  between May 14-16, 2024. We were pleased to attend the European Cloud and Collaboration Summits – to participate…

Dev Tunnels is a tunneling service that can boost your productivity when testing and debugging web apps, webhooks, APIs, and more. You can also simply use Dev Tunnels to seamlessly…

  Another excellent session was held during the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024 event! This time, the focus was on Playwright. But, what is Playwright? And, what are the best practices for…

  Introduction  Azure Static Web Apps already offers an amazing solution to build and host full stack web apps with our Free and Standard plans!   However, you have been…

  We're excited to announce the latest updates to Azure Cache for Redis that will improve your data management and application performance as we kickoff for Microsoft Build 2024. Coming…

We're excited to share the integration of Azure AI Video Indexer within the Dataloop AI pipeline and platform. This integration enhances Dataloop's robust AI development environment with Azure's cutting-edge video…

Are you ready to enhance your coding experience? Meet GitHub Copilot for Azure, the latest addition to your toolkit. This extension integrates seamlessly with GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code, bringing…

In 2024, with the empowerment of AI, we will enter the era of AI PC. On May 20, Microsoft also released the concept of Copilot + PC, which means that…

We are excited to introduce the AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, a powerful VS Code extension available today in the Visual Studio Marketplace. AI Toolkit enables developers to explore,…

As we continue to get further away from the events of 2020 that stopped in-person events and meetups in their tracks, we’re starting to see a resurgence of local developer…

    Microsoft Build 2024 starts May 21st. Register now to attend virtually.   Microsoft Build, the annual conference where developers can dive deep into the latest Microsoft technologies, kicks off May…

If you try to create custom policy to add diagnostic settings for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Cluster for log analytics and assign policy at subscription level, you will find…

We develop Azure Custom Policies when we need flexibility and advanced capabilities which cannot be achieved by existing built- in policies provided by Azure. We can add multiple custom policies for…

  At Microsoft, we know Python is a developer's best friend, so in this blog we’re going to not only review what makes it such a versatile tool for coders,…

  Continuing with a series of articles about the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024, Sajeetharan Sinnathurai a Principal Product Manager on the Azure Cosmos DB Team at Microsoft, delivered an enlightening session titled…

When you start a new project from scratch in Visual Studio, a few files get created. Many templates are available, for many types of applications, from simple console apps to…

If you’ve ever engaged with the content on the Microsoft Learn platform, it's highly likely that the material you utilized was written or co-authored by dedicated contributors. These contributors, often…

Microsoft, Google, and Apple have all released SLM (Microsoft phi3-mini, Google Gemma, and Apple OpenELM) adapted to edge devices at different times . Developers deploy SLM offline on Nvidia Jetson…

  In the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024, Maya Shavin a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, presented a session called "Have a safe coffee chat with your documentation using Azure AI Services". And…

Unit tests are one of the very important tools in our developer arsenal to get peace of mind. But many developers are often neglecting this step, often by lack of…

The main benefit of using Generative AI in Visual Studio is that it enables you to type faster. It's important to keep in mind that Copilot is not a compiler,…

  Or maybe you were still paying attention to the Meta Llama 3 released last week, but today Microsoft did something different and released a new Phi-3 series of models.…

In real time, every project would deal with Azure storage or Azure SQL Database. It can be blobs, folders/directories, files. It becomes a crucial step to validate the filefoldertable before…

  Join in: The European Cloud  2024 | May 14-16, 2024 | European Cloud Summit What: European Cloud Summit and European Collaboration Summit  – co-located in 2024 Register today |Use the MSCMTY discount code to save 15%…

    In this fourth artile around the Microsoft event: the Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024, Bob German, Principal Cloud Advocate in M365 at Microsoft, showcased the possibilities of extending Copilot within…

When we talk about AI, we have a relative long winded pitch about how the quality of the data you use to train your model is critical to the quality…

From managing complex dependencies and opaque configurations to juggling compatibility issues and security risks, deploying app infrastructure has always been a source of friction. We designed Azure Deployment Environments to…

With the term copilot we refer to a virtual assistant solution hosted in the Cloud, using an LLM as a chat engine, which is fed with business data and custom prompts and…

In a technology landscape deeply changed by generative AI, businesses look for more effective ways to deliver customer service solutions to their customers. On the other hand, customers have higher…

Like many Azure APIs, the Azure OpenAI service gives developers the option to authenticate with either API keys or keyless authentication (via Entra identity). Since it's a security best practice…

  In this third article around the Microsoft event aimed at JavaScript developers: Azure Developers JavaScript Day 2024, we're going to talk about GitHub Copilot, a incredible tool that is changing…

One of the recurring jokes in our industry is that developers are not very good at two things when coding: Documenting code, and creating unit tests. These are two areas…

Why Do we Need RAG?  RAG stands for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, which is a technique for improving the accuracy and reliability of generative AI models with facts retrieved from external sources.…