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Introducing the Copilot Studio + Azure AI Search Solution
Introduction to a scaleable and secure turnkey architecture for deploying Copilots connected to Azure AI Search.
Agent Onboarding Process for Agentic Systems: Maintain accuracy at scale
A robust agent onboarding process is the backbone of scalable, reliable multi-agent AI systems—enforcing uniqueness, rigorous evaluation, and responsible AI practices at every step.
Accelerating AI Development with GitHub Copilot: Real-World Use-Cases
This blog post shares real-world experiences from Microsoft's ISE team using GitHub Copilot to accelerate AI development workflows, demonstrating how AI tools can significantly speed up tasks like creating documentation, class diagrams, data visualizations, and demo scripts when used by experienced developers.
Ensuring Seamless User Experience in Modernization Projects with AI‑Generated Stagehand and Playwright UI Tests
Using AI‑generated tools like Stagehand with Microsoft's Playwright helps ensure a smooth user experience during modernization efforts such as Hyper Velocity Engineering and monolith-to-microservices migrations.
Patterns for Building a Scalable Multi-Agent System
Practical patterns for designing scalable, high-performing multi-agent systems—grounded in real implementation experience.
Tuning and Optimization of Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and Custom Keyword Recognition in Azure Speech Services
This blog outlines best practices for optimizing Speech-to-Text (STT), Text-to-Speech (TTS), and Custom Keyword Recognition in Azure Speech Services, helping developers build more accurate and responsive voice-enabled applications.
Integration Testing with Testcontainers
How to leverage Testcontainers for integration testing
Managing secrets on Azure KeyVault with a Tagging strategy to perform automations
Cloud and Infrastructure teams can manage secrets on Azure KeyVault with a Tagging strategy to perform automations.
Working with Git Submodules: Managing Dependencies Across Repositories
Working with Git Submodules and creating actions.
Leveraging Fabric Eventhouse to Store Great Expectations Validation Results
A step-by-step guide to storing data validation results into the Eventhouse & visualize data using queries and dashboard.
Taming Complexity: Intuitive Evaluation Framework for Agentic Chatbots in Business-Critical Environments
This blog post introduces a comprehensive evaluation framework for enterprise chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs), specifically addressing the challenges of assessing Line of Business (LOB) agents in business-critical environments. The authors tackle the fundamental problem that traditional chatbot evaluation metrics fail to capture the nuanced, non-deterministic performance of modern LLM-based systems, proposing a solution that combines realistic chat simulation using an LLM-powered User Agent, automated ground truth generation at scale, and comprehensive metrics including function call precision, r...
Unlocking Vector Search with OneLake Indexer and OpenAI Integration in Microsoft Fabric
Exploring how Microsoft Fabric OneLake indexer integrates with OpenAI
Ground Truth Curation Process for AI Systems
Steps to Produce High Quality Ground Truth Pairs for AI Systems
Customizable and Extensible Evaluation of a GenAI Application
Suggestions on how to evaluate a generative AI application in an adaptable and extensible manner.
Learnings from External Data Handling
This blog post discusses the challenges and solutions encountered by the ISE team at Microsoft while making a distributed system production-ready. It focuses on issues including slow processing speeds and out-of-memory exceptions, and provides insights into the methods used to address these problems.
Enhancing Analytical Queries with Semantic Kernel and In-Memory SQL Processing
Integrating Semantic Kernel with an ephemeral in-memory SQL plugin, enabling secure and efficient analytical queries over structured data.
AI Model Promotion with dstoolkit-mlops-v2
Evaluates various repository structures and designs for maximizing the efficiency of Data Scientists and Software Engineers developing, promoting and deploying AI models on the same project.
Use Agent to Update Dataverse Table Content
Create an agent using Copilot Studio to update the content of a Dataverse table.