I am proud to announce the publication of my newest book titled, “Microsoft Certified Associate Data Engineer Study Guide” for the DP-203 exam. The example data used in this book consists of my brainwaves. You can download the data and the source code for all the examples in the book on GitHub here . ADLS, […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Beginning C# and .NET 2021 Edition book, which was co-authored with Jon Reid. The book contains over 800 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great C# programmer. The book is designed around the premise that […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Azure Solution Architect Complete Study Guide. The book contains over 700 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great Azure Solution Architect. The book is designed around the requirements for passing both the AZ-303 and AZ-304 […]
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These labs provide a group of debugging scenarios focused on helping you get some hands on experience in debugging the most common type of IIS issues. For example, hang/performance, crash and memory issues. Installation These labs are focused IIS 8.5, but can be run on the following versions of IIS IIS Version Operating System IIS […]
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I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools. In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized. MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]
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I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools. In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized. MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]
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Before learning what I discovered while integrating tools into an AI Agent, I was a bit perplexed regarding how the LLM was able to determine which tool to use and even which tools are available for use. Well, how it works is not a mystery, it is clearly described in the code. In this post […]
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As of writing this article the Azure SRE Agent is in preview release. After provisioning an Azure SRE Agent a common activity is to configure the Agent to monitor and act upon an alert. The Azure SRE Agent currently supports 3 incident platforms: Azure Monitor, PagerDuty, and ServiceNow, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, […]
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A very critical part of implementing a Generative AI solution that utilizes Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) like Microsoft Copilot is the discovery of the most relevant grounding documents. These most relevant grounding documents are then passed to the LLM for use in generating the NLP response. For example, if you want to find out how […]
Read More →If you want to get a free copy of the Index, Table of Contents and of Chapter 1, have a look here. Click on the READ AN EXCERPT dropdown and then select the one you would like to review. Figure 1 illustrates how that looks like. Figure 1, how to get a free PDF copy […]
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If you have not read or heard about Microsoft Copilot read more about it here. In summary it is a natural language generative AI application that can respond to questions using your proprietary/private data in sentences and paragraphs instead of links. It does much more than that, read the article if you want to find […]
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The location from which a process is invoked is important. A process, I.e. an executable (.exe) is the program which contains the entry point to the code which needs to run. If the location is in a relative position related to the assemblies it requires, then the .exe can use relative paths to access an […]
Read More →NOTE: it is now possible to achieve this in the Azure portal which means the modification of the XDT file is no longer necessary. It will still work and knowing about this capability might help you implement something which does not currently have an interface to do so…yet. Here is some information about doing this […]
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