Sometimes you want to develop or experiment with LLM APIs without having to submit your data to Azure Open AI or any other LLM service. Instead, you simply want to run a basic LLM AI locally to test whether your idea works. Jussi has authored some informative blog posts about Ollama, which indeed is a great tool for this situation, but it might not be the best…
Yes, you read that right! Visual Studio is recreating its solution files, which have remained unchanged throughout my 15 years in this industry and I think this is great and anticipated improvement.
That is a great question. A Visual Studio solution file (.sln extension) is a important part of the Visual Studio development environment. It serves as a container for one or more projects …
Microsoft provides a handy RSS feed for its Azure updates at https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/en-us/updates/feed/. This feed includes all updates related to services arriving with Preview and General Available status. As this is great information for everyone who is interested from Azure, I wanted to make this feed’s information available to everyone on our Slack (our companies main communication channel).
Slack offers built-in RSS readers, but I thought of implementing a reader …
Last week, I was promoted to the position of CTO at Adafy. Partially due to this promotion, I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the significance of the architect role and the career path to becoming one. The prevalent notion suggests that the career trajectory for a software developer is Software Developer =Senior Software Developer =Software Architect. However, there’s a slight contradiction in this, as the …
Azure AI Language Service is a service hosted on the cloud, offering capabilities in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to comprehend and dissect text. It supports summarization, entity linking, key phrase extraction, and many other features. It shares many features with OpenAI, albeit in a much simpler form.
In this post, I’m going to build an Azure Function that wraps the Azure AI Language Service into a nice and simple API. …
Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel is currently a focal point in the Microsoft AI landscape. The Semantic Kernel (referred to as SK) serves as an SDK enabling the development of applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). SK facilitates seamless integration of OpenAI or Azure OpenAI into applications, empowering developers to construct AI pipelines capable of executing multiple LLM calls, triggering actions, and executing custom code based on LLM responses. However, the reality …
Microsoft has provided tools to develop Teams Bot for a long time. I think the first tools were released around 2016(?). The first toolset included quite a bit of manual labor to get things done and working, but as of 2024 things have changed quite a bit. Now you can build, test, deploy and publish bots directly from Visual Studio (or code if you run into authentication troubles like I …
It always surprises me how little the Azure Dashboard feature is used/talked. I think it is one of the greatest feature in Azure Portal and still many of Azure users are just using resource groups / resource listing to find resources they are interested of. With Azure Dashboard, you can bring all the resources of interest directly to the user, display current status of the services and give them quick …
Sampling is a feature in Application Insights that reduces amount of data send into App Insights. This means that not all the logs/dependencies/requests etc. are send into Application Insights. Adaptive sampling is enabled by default in all the latest versions of the Application Insights ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Software Development Kits (SDKs), and Azure Functions. We will later learn what this adaptive sampling does, but basically it tries to protect …
Version control (also known as source control), is a practice (and a tool) for tracking and managing changes in software code. It enables multiple people to work collaboratively on a project, tracking modifications, and coordinating updates. Version control systems maintain a history of changes, allowing users to revert to previous versions, compare differences between versions, and merge changes made by different contributors. This ensures the integrity, traceability, and collaborative efficiency …