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How to enhance your chatbot so it can retrieve data from multiple data sources & orchestrate its own plan with C# Semantic Kernel, planner & Azure OpenAI – part 2 (demo app implementation)

December 1st, 2023
In this multi-part series, Jordan Bean shares how to enhance a chatbot to retrieve data from multiple data sources and orchestrate plans with C# Semantic Kernel, planner, and Azure Open AI. In the previous post, we discussed how the RAG pattern isn’t enough to answer complex user questions. We talked about using Semantic Kernel ...

How to enhance your chatbot so it can retrieve data from multiple data sources & orchestrate its own plan with C# Semantic Kernel, planner & Azure OpenAI – part 1

December 1st, 2023
In this multi-part series, Jordan Bean shares how to enhance a chatbot to retrieve data from multiple data sources and orchestrate plans with C# Semantic Kernel, planner, and Azure Open AI. As discussed in the previous post about Azure OpenAI, using the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern is a simple & effective way to ...

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

November 17th, 2023
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, ...

Effective Kubernetes for JakartaEE and Microprofile Developers

November 2nd, 2023
In this post, David Minkovski explores some best practices to get your deployment up and running on Kubernetes and Azure. Motivation Kubernetes has become one of the most loved solutions for managing containers. But can you tell me why people love it? Because it runs magic containers (essentially what you want) where you want. Whether...

Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation

October 31st, 2023
With the recent arrival of the Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines, you may be wondering how to efficiently migrate dozens or even hundreds of ARM Service Connections to take advantage of these benefits.  In this post, Emmanuel Knafo dives right in. Updating Your Azure DevOps ARM Service Connections To ...

Part 5 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process

October 31st, 2023
John Folberth and Joe Fitzgerald share sample guidance for developing and deploying an Azure Data Factory into multiple environments. Introduction  Part 1 Part 2  Part 3 Part 4 This section will build on that and include how to build/deploy larger Data ...

Configuring Azure Blob Trigger Identity Based Connection

September 18th, 2023
So want to connect your blob triggered function to a storage account, but you don’t want to put your connection string or secrets into the configuration?  Andrew Redman explores how to do it in this blog post. What’s the problem? You want to connect your blob triggered function to a storage account, but you don’t want to put ...

Part 4 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process

September 15th, 2023
John Folberth and Joe Fitzgerald share sample guidance for developing and deploying an Azure Data Factory into multiple environments. (image) Background  This post is the next post in the series Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process. This also happens to overlap and is included ...

Programmatically Create SAS tokens in .NET

September 15th, 2023
Andrew Redman explores how to programmatically create SAS tokens using .NET. Introduction In today's digital landscape, data security and controlled access are critical concerns for businesses. Azure Blob Storage is a popular cloud storage solution, allowing you to store and manage unstructured data. To safeguard your data while ...

Part 3 – Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to Boosting Your Data Ingestion Process

September 14th, 2023
John Folberth and Joe Fitzgerald share sample guidance for developing and deploying an Azure Data Factory into multiple environments. Introduction To see a complete introduction to this blog series, including links to all the other parts, please follow the link below: Part 1 - Unlock the Power of Azure Data Factory: A Guide to ...