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OpenAI Assistants

Hello prompt engineers, OpenAI held their first Dev Day on November 6th, which included a number of new product announcements, including GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context, function calling updates, JSON mode, improvements to GPT-3.5 Turbo, the Assistant API, DALL*E 3, text-to-speech, and more. This post will focus just on the Assistant ...


Functions View for Build Insights in Visual Studio 2022 17.8

Introduction We are excited to unveil a new feature in Build Insights for Visual Studio: Functions View! This feature is available in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Functions View offers essential insights into functions and forceinlines within your codebases. Download Visual Studio 2022 17.8 We extend our sincere thanks thanks to the...


Configuration of Data Movement between On-prem or private network to Azure Cloud

In this post, Yanzhong Liang (Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect) and Todd Shain (United Healthcare Group) share some learnings from the field, moving data between environments with Azure Data Factory. In this article, we will take a look at how to transfer files between your on-premises or private network and Azure cloud storage, ...


Azure DevOps' First Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) Now Available

I am thrilled to announce that we have now published, for the first time, a Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) specific to Azure DevOps. The Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) is a tool developed by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It serves as a standard set of questions aimed at helping potential cloud ...