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How to Securely Handle Secrets with Azure Key Vault in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks

Proper secret management is one of the security fundamentals in software development. You should never hardcode credentials, secrets or tokens into your Spark Notebooks, because it creates a security vulnerability and adds extra complexity. Hardcoding secrets into Notebooks means that if you need to update any of the secrets you have to go through all the notebooks. Azure Key Vault is a centralized secret management system, which helps you to store secrets and credentials. By using centralized system, you can… Read More »How to Securely Handle Secrets with Azure Key Vault in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks

Access Real-Time Data from LLM using Semantic Kernel

LLMs have been around for years now, and we have been using them for data that doesn’t change frequently. We don’t ask them for current data, like today’s weather or the balance in our bank account. Instead, we ask evergreen questions, such as who the members of the band ABBA are or whether we can eat ice cream in space (the answer is yes!).

However, since GPT-4, we have gained …

AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code

AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is a “relatively” new toolset, that was previously known as Windows AI Studio. Toolkit is an extension, that allows developers to run SLMs (Small Language Models) on their local machine, or use Azure AI Studio LLM models from cloud. As you can easily use the Azure AI Studio models without any extensions like this, I find the local models more interesting …

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Force Azure OpenAI to response with JSON data

Aug 7, 2024 Microsoft announced, that they are now supporting JSON mode Azure OpenAI. This mode forces OpenAI to response only with JSON data. You could kind of do the same thing earlier, but the OpenAI response didn’t always contain only valid JSON. There could be some additional text before and after the JSON data. However now you can force the OpenAI to stay strictly in JSON format.

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DevOps: Leverage AI to Diagnose and Resolve CI/CD Pipeline Errors

CI/CD pipelines are a critical part of modern software development, but diagnosing errors when they arise can be difficult and time-consuming. In this post, we’ll look at how to use Azure OpenAI to help explain and troubleshoot common CI/CD errors. By applying AI to understand error messages and identify root causes, you can make it easier to debug errors.

Prerequisites

Before we start, we need to setup few things into …

Microsoft .NET MVP

1.8.2024 I received a message from Microsoft and after reading the first few lines I was absolutely stunned.

Of course, this wasn’t a complete surprise to me, because I had earlier filled out the application for MVP, but still, I wasn’t quite sure if I was going to be accepted or not into the program as it took some time to get validated. Well, I’m glad it turned out this …

Microsoft Fabric REST API

Microsoft Fabric REST API is a tool, that can help you automate tasks in Fabric. By saying automate, I mean you can use it to automatically manage Fabric items, run notebooks, setup workspaces etc. The full API documentation can be found from this URL.

Getting Started with Fabric APIs

To use the Fabric API, you need a Microsoft Entra authentication token, as Fabric does not support API keys or …

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Access Microsoft Fabric Data from Dotnet App

Microsoft Fabric is an excellent product for storing both structured and unstructured data for data analysis and AI workloads. It is built on top of Azure Blob Storage, making data storage relatively cheap and easy to access. Fabric offers many built-in tools for data manipulation, including Dataflow Gen 2, Data Pipelines, and Notebooks. However, sometimes you need to access the data from outside of Microsoft Fabric, which is the topic …

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Unpacking AI and Copilot Studios

Microsoft has published many Copilots within a year. We have Copilots for Azure, Security, Finance, Word, Outlook, etc. Almost all of these different Copilots are integrated into the corresponding tool. You can find Azure Copilot in the Azure Portal, Copilot for Finance in Excel and so on. The number of Copilots won’t decrease in the near future; rather, the opposite. I predict that the number of Copilots will keep growing. …

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How to Fix Crashing Snipping Tool After Windows 11 Update

On recent Windows 11 update my Snipping Tool started to crash. When I used it to take a screenshot it crashed always after I clicked the thumbnail image at the bottom of the screen. Windows Event Viewer didn’t provide any clues about the cause, which left me a little confused.

Snipping Tool has stopped working

I checked the Snipping Tool settings, but I had all toggles turned off and it …