A practical guide to building AI agents using Microsoft's open source tools like AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Foundry. Learn core patterns, architecture approaches, and gotchas.
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What I've learned shipping AI agents in production - single agent beats multi-agent, tool calling is the hard part, cost management, gotchas, and why MCP matters.
What's changed in Kubernetes and AKS since 2019 - automatic upgrades, GitOps with Flux, KEDA autoscaling, managed Istio, GPU node pools, and what's still hard.
Real-world lessons from building RAG systems with Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI - chunking strategies, hybrid search, embedding models, cost management, and practical gotchas.
How we're integrating AI into CloudLabs - from intelligent lab guidance and troubleshooting to content generation. What worked, what didn't, and what we learned.
Why do you need a private ChatGPT for your employees? Hey, you probably already know what ChatGPT is, right? It’s a cool way to generate text, code, images for your tasks, based on your input. You can use it for all kinds of things, like crafting proposals, summarizing documents, answering questions, and more. ChatGPT is powered by OpenAI, which is…
The story behind CloudLabs - how we went from rough prototypes to powering 400,000+ lab environments for tech training at scale, and the hard lessons along the way.
My first hands-on experience with Azure OpenAI Service - setting up, deploying GPT-3.5 Turbo, writing my first API call, and exploring use cases for CloudLabs at Spektra Systems.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly known as Defender ATP) allows you to onboard and offboard devices using various tools such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Group Policies or through a custom script. This works great when your device is still accessible, however what if the device is no longer managed by your organization’s MEM or other configuration management tool? This happens…
I am pleased to announce that my latest book “Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc” is now available. This release completes my fourth book in Microsoft cloud ecosystem. With all the options available for deploying infrastructure on multi-cloud platforms and on-premises comes the complexity of managing it, which is adeptly handled by Azure Arc. This book will show you how…