In early April Microsoft published C SDK for MCP Server. If you aren’t familiar with MCP you can check great definition from Philipp Schmid blog. If you are too lazy to read it I can give you a short intro: MCP is a stan…Read More »Build Your Own MCP Server with MCP C# SDK
This blog post is second part of my Fabric GraphQL testing posts. You can find the first part HERE. I have been using Fabric SQL Analytics Endpoint to build solutions in where Fabric data is used outside of Fabric. You c…Read More »Part II: Microsoft Fabric GraphQL Performance
Microsoft Fabric’s GraphQL API allows querying data stores in a flexible and efficient way. In this post I will walk through how you can integrate the Fabric GraphQL API into a .NET application, covering authentication,…Read More »Part I: Use Microsoft Fabric GraphQL API with .NET App
In Azure it is good practice (well I would say mandatory practice) to restrict database and Key Vault access by setting network restrictions for the Azure resource. Typically enterprises has their own virtual networks se…Read More »Fabric Security: How to Access Private Network Azure Resources
Microsoft has published new AI library (well, technically it is just LLM library, but nowadays AI = LLM) in preview. This library is called Microsoft.Extensions.AI. With this library, developers can abstract away what LL…Read More »What is Microsoft.Extensions.AI Library and Will It Replace Semantic Kernel?
Year 2024 has come to an end. In general 2024 was a hard year for lots of people. Macro economy wasn’t that good here in Finland, lots of my friends were having troubles or disturbs in their personal life and in general…Read More »Reflections on 2024: A Year of Growth and Success?
During early December, Microsoft held a Fabric certification challenge, which required participants to: 1. Join the Fabric Community. 2. Complete all modules in the Microsoft Learn Challenge | Ignite Edition: Fabric Chal…Read More »DP-600: Microsoft Certified Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
Memory. The mortal enemy of all software developers. We don’t like things that require remembering or using our memory. We prefer to automate, eliminate duplication, and avoid functions that require us to trust other peo…Read More »Improve Pull Requests with Pull Request Templates
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 ad…Read More »How to Securely Handle Secrets with Azure Key Vault in Microsoft Fabric Notebooks
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 everg…Read More »Access Real-Time Data from LLM using Semantic Kernel
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,…Read More »AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
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 a…Read More »Force Azure OpenAI to response with JSON data
