In this session on instrumentation in .net and Azure for cloud applications, the speaker emphasizes the importance of observability in a devops mindset. Without observability, production environments ...

Entity functions allow for reading and updating small pieces of state, also known as durable entities. They provide a means of scaling out applications and are accessed via a unique identifier, the en...

The speaker, Jimmy Bogard, introduces himself and provides links to his social media and blog. He explains that he works as a consultant, building applications and systems for clients. He discusses a ...

This is a simple command line tool to get the cost of your Azure subscription. It uses the Azure Cost Management API to get the cost and output the results to the console or JSON. E.g. so it can be us...

How to solve Did not find any initialized language workers error with Linux Azure Function, when you have upgraded from dotnet 6 to dotnet 7

Semantic Kernel (SK) is a lightweight SDK enabling integration of AI Large Language Models (LLMs) with conventional programming languages. SK offers a unique programming model that combines natural la...

Microsoft is incorporating open source machine learning models into Azure applications and services, with a focus on its own open source tools. Hugging Faces library of thousands of models and data se...

Bing has confirmed that the new version of Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4 which has been customized for search. Users who have used the new Bing preview in the last five weeks have already experienced an...

Learn how to use Azure Computer Vision to automate the process of extracting text from a receipt or other images. With this tutorial, youll be able to create a small console app using C#, Visual Studi...

Learn how to call Azure Open AI using its REST endpoint. This post shows how to use RestSharp, with a request class to tailor requests and a response class to handle API responses. Tokens are used to ...

Microsoft has recently announced the general availability of Azure Durable Functions support for both the new storage providers, Netherite and Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL). Azure Durable Functions all...

Microsofts Azure Durable Functions now supports storage backends such as Netherite and MSSQL, providing new options for developers to store their data. This was announced at QCon San Francisco, an eve...

AzFunc4DevOps is an open-source project that offers a set of Azure DevOps Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions, which leverages the Azure Functions platform to simplify integration, automation, i...

Sharpliner is a .NET library that allows you to use C# instead of YAML for Azure DevOps pipeline definition. With Sharpliner, you can easily exchange YAML indentation problems for a type-safe environm...

The speaker, Jimmy Bogard, discusses his recent project where he had to learn how to deploy secure microservices into Azure. He explains that the days of securing basic client-server applications with...

Azure Visualizer aka AzViz is a PowerShell module that automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams by just typing a PowerShell cmdlet and passing the name of one or more Azure Resource Gr...

In this tutorial, learn how to secure Azure Functions with Azure AD using the Microsoft.Identity.Web library to validate tokens and authorize access. The tutorial includes a sample project available o...

Learn how to access client principal data in Azure Static Web Apps using Azure Functions middleware. This functionality provides authentication-related user information that can be accessed directly o...

Learn how to send emails using Microsoft Graph, a set of restful http APIs to interact with Microsoft 365, as sending emails using the SmtpClient in .NET and Exchange Online has been deprecated. Acces...

Learn how to use Always Encrypted, a feature designed by Microsoft to protect sensitive data on database level. This encryption tool is available on SQL server 2016 or later as well as Azure SQL Datab...