Building AI Agents: A Practical Framework for Getting Started
A practical guide to building AI agents using Microsoft’s open source tools like AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Foundry. Learn core patterns,…
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AI Agents in the Real World: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)
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…
Kubernetes in 2025: What’s Changed Since I Wrote About AKS
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…
RAG Patterns for Enterprise: What I’ve Learned Building Real Solutions
Real-world lessons from building RAG systems with Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI – chunking strategies, hybrid search, embedding models, cost management,…
How We’re Adding AI to CloudLabs
How we’re integrating AI into CloudLabs – from intelligent lab guidance and troubleshooting to content generation. What worked, what didn’t, and what we…
How to Build a Private ChatGPT for your organization using Azure and Chat Copilot App
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…
How We Built CloudLabs: Powering Hands-On Tech Training at Scale
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…
Azure OpenAI Service is Here: My First Hands-On Experience
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…
Offboard Obsolete Machines from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly known as Defender ATP) allows you to onboard and offboard devices using various tools such as Microsoft Endpoint…
Book Release: Implementing Hybrid Cloud with Azure Arc
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…