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PACT Contract Testing – Because Not Everything Needs Full Integration Tests
PACT is a contract testing tool that allows you to define a contract between two applications, enabling

Dockerizing UV
How to Dockerize Python Package Management Tool UV

Hierarchical Waterfall Evaluation of Query Classification, Retrieval & Generation in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
This post presents a hierarchical waterfall framework for evaluating query classification, retrieval, and generation in multi-agent LLM systems.

Efficient Ground Truth Generation for Search Evaluation

This article discusses the challenges and methodologies for creating a reliable groundtruth dataset for search evaluation. It highlights the use of TREC Pooling and GPT-4o assisted ranking to overcome the labor-intensive process of manual labeling, ensuring high-quality search evaluations even with limited data.

Durable Functions for Indexing in RAG: A Practical Python Approach
Azure Durable Functions streamline RAG indexing by combining push flexibility with pull reliability for scalable,

Cloud infrastructure provisioning: best practices for IaC

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is a common DevOps practice that enterprises use to provision and deploy IT infrastructure. Enterprises applying IaC and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines can maintain high availability and manage risk for their cloud environments at scale. However, multi-environment challenges, manual processes, and fragmented guidance still lead to configuration drift, errors, and inconsistencies. These issues are likely to result in downtime, security vulnerabilities, and inefficient resource utilization.

Integration testing with Dapr and Testcontainers
This blog post discusses setting up a Pytest integration test framework for a system using Dapr and Testcontainers. This framework was initially setup for a customer to suit their needs and it has been extracted into a sample project to provide a starting point.

Running RAG with ONNX Runtime GenAI for On-Prem Windows

Exploring how to efficiently run a RAG pipeline with structured language models (SLMs) and guardrails on Windows, achieving inference under 5 seconds with ONNX Runtime GenAI.

Data Validations with Great Expectations in MS Fabric
In this blog post, we will explore how to integrate GX within the Microsoft Fabric environment and use it to validate data programmatically.