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Building LLM applications with vector search in Azure Cognitive Services

Microsoft’s Cognitive Search API now offers vector search as a service, ready for use with large language models in Azure OpenAI and beyond.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 17, 2023 8 mins

Generative AI Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Understanding OneLake and lakehouses in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 10, 2023 7 mins

Data Architecture Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Tame your wild LLM with TypeChat

Large language models mean not having to use complicated regular expression handlers to turn text into data. Using TypeChat, you can ensure that that data is type-safe JSON.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 03, 2023 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Natural Language Processing

Customizing Microsoft Dev Boxes with code

Configuration as code is coming to Microsoft’s Azure-hosted workstations, allowing us to use WinGet, YAML files, and PowerShell DSC to deliver ready-to-run toolchains to developers.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 20, 2023 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Integrated Development Environments

Build custom actions for Power Automate for Windows

Bundled with Windows 11, Power Automate for Windows lets you wrap low-code workflows around your desktop applications. A new SDK supports custom actions.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 13, 2023 7 mins

Cloud Computing No Code and Low Code Technology Industry

Build accelerated AI apps for NPUs with Olive

Microsoft’s open-source, hardware-aware optimization tool for ONNX models is an essential part of its AI application development tool chain.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 03, 2023 6 mins

Deep Learning Development Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning

KAN: A Kubernetes edge environment for computer vision

Microsoft’s open-source KubeAI Application Nucleus is a low-touch, Kubernetes-based system for building and running machine learning applications for edge devices.

By Simon Bisson

May 22, 2023 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Semantic Kernel: A bridge between large language models and your code

Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel SDK makes it easier to manage complex prompts and get focused results from large language models like GPT.

By Simon Bisson

Apr 17, 2023 8 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Technology Industry

Working with Azure’s Data API builder

Add REST and GraphQL APIs to any database with a handy .NET CLI tool.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 29, 2023 7 mins

APIs Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Using Hugging Face machine learning models in Azure

Microsoft is working to bring open source machine learning models into Azure applications and services.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 15, 2023 6 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Design effective AI prompts with Microsoft Prompt Engine

Microsoft’s open source tool helps you write code to work with generative AI, ensuring results give correct information and stay on topic.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 01, 2023 7 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Cobol in .NET with Otterkit

Old languages never die, they just get ported to a new runtime. Here’s a look at a new open source project for .NET that can help modernize Cobol.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 15, 2023 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Open Source

Getting started with Azure OpenAI

Microsoft’s Azure-hosted OpenAI language models are now generally available, and it’s surprisingly simple to use them in your code.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 01, 2023 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Easier documentation with GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages lets you manage content exactly the same way you manage code, pushing from content development branches to main to publish new content. It’s a great way to ensure that code and documentation are delivered side by side.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 18, 2023 7 mins

Development Tools GitHub Software Development

SpiderLightning: Making WebAssembly cloud applications portable

Inside one of the technologies that powers Azure Kubernetes Service’s WebAssembly support, and promises to make applications portable across clouds and other hosts.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 04, 2023 7 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Multi Cloud

Introducing Cadl: Microsoft’s concise API design language

With Cadl, you can write a 500-line OpenAPI definition in 50 lines of code. It’s a logical way for architects and developers to construct and constrain APIs.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 21, 2022 7 mins

APIs C# Microsoft Azure

Azure Kubernetes doubles down on WebAssembly

WebAssembly is ideal for cloud-native apps. A shift from Krustlets to runwasi should simplify managing Wasm nodes in Azure Kubernetes Service.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 07, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Integrating Web3 technologies with Azure Devops

Microsoft’s Azure incubation team is experimenting with blockchain technologies. Can the company make them ready for the enterprise?

By Simon Bisson

Nov 23, 2022 7 mins

Blockchain Microsoft Azure Web Development

Inside Microsoft’s cloud-first .NET 7 release

November means it’s time for a new .NET release. What’s in .NET 7 for the cloud and for containers? Cross-platform support and cloud-native functionality.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 09, 2022 6 mins

Canonical Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s end-to-end Arm development environment is here at last

With Arm developer hardware now shipping, Windows is ready to embrace an NPU-powered AI future.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 26, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Ignite 2022: Making Azure your development hub

Microsoft is using its Ignite event to expand Azure’s role as its developer cloud, offering an isolated, configurable development platform.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 12, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Azure on Arm is here at last

Microsoft has finally unveiled its Arm-hosted virtual machines, a lower-power option for your cloud-native code.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 26, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure

Hands-on with Microsoft’s CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux

How to install and configure the fast and lightweight container host Linux distribution for Azure Kubernetes Service and the Microsoft Container Registry.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 12, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Understand Visual Studio’s new extension model

Microsoft is updating how you build Visual Studio extensions, with new APIs and the ability to run extensions outside of the Visual Studio process.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 31, 2022 6 mins

Integrated Development Environments Microsoft .NET Visual Studio

Kestrel: The Microsoft web server you should be using

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 24, 2022 8 mins

Microsoft .NET Software Development Web Development

Lift and shift Windows applications to containers

Microsoft’s own experience with Microsoft 365 shows that moving to cloud-native is possible, even when you have a lot of code to move.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 17, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Small and Medium Business

Manage your tasks with the Microsoft To Do API

A desktop task manager built on top of the Microsoft Graph lets you share tasks with groups and seamlessly link tasks to applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 10, 2022 7 mins

APIs Roles Small and Medium Business

Build .NET apps for the metaverse with StereoKit

Microsoft’s open source mixed-reality tools make it easy to build OpenXR apps in .NET.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 03, 2022 7 mins

APIs C# Microsoft .NET

Build SBOMs with Microsoft’s SPDX SBOM generator

Microsoft is making its internal, cross-platform, software bill of materials generation tool public and open source.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 27, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Development Tools Open Source

Trying out the Azure Developer CLI

Microsoft’s new Azure developer tool streamlines development in the Azure cloud, from deploying dev environments to running CI/CD.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 20, 2022 8 mins

CI/CD Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Azure Artifacts helps you standardize on packages and modules

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps offers a feed-based artifact repository for your own and third-party code that’s well worth a look.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 13, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Working with Microsoft’s .NET Rules Engine

Manage application workflow with open source tools that add basic rules processing to your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 06, 2022 7 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Open Source

Using Azure Communication Services for email

Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 29, 2022 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Microsoft Azure

What’s new in Microsoft Azure’s NLP AI services

Microsoft is finally close to delivering its long-promised natural user interfaces. Here’s how you can build them into your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 22, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Building collaborative apps with Teams Live Share

Microsoft is expanding access to its Fluid Framework real-time collaboration tools with a new application platform for Teams developers.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 15, 2022 8 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools No Code and Low Code

Microsoft Azure eases Kubernetes development with a new Draft

Microsoft resurrects Deis Labs’ Kubernetes quick-start tool to help you package existing code for Azure Kubernetes Service.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 08, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

Microsoft Dev Box: Your development workstation on Azure

Build 2022 had a developer focus, with new tools to make it easier to write code in a world of hybrid work. Dev Box promises to make your development environments easier to manage.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 01, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure