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Build an Azure AI chatbot using your own data from blob storage

You must have lived under a rock if you didn’t hear about how important Azure AI is for Microsoft and its partner and customer ecosystem. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), companies will be more innovative, employees will be more productive. While I honestly was a bit hesitant at first myself - knowing a big part of my job is providing training, and seeing what AI can do here in terms of content creation, video creation and alike, yes the trainer role will definitely (has to) change over the next coming months - once I started digging into its capabilities more, I started to see the AI engine potential.

You do not have permissions to view this directory or page after publishing to Azure App Service

Earlier this week, I got an interesting phenomenon when publishing a code update to an existing Azure App Service. As this was a small project, I’ve always been deploying updates in a manual way from right-click / publish in Visual Studio. But than I said to myself, Peter, as a passionate DevOps engineer and trainer, just go out and create a pipeline for this. And that’s what happened. Running the release pipeline came back successful, but the site threw an error:

Collecting Feedback in ADO work items from Office Forms

Hey folks, I’m a fond user of Azure DevOps for testing application builds, running CI/CD pipelines to publish Azure demo scenarios and train our Microsoft global customers on it every few weeks out of AZ-400 training deliveries. One of the lesser-known, yet AWESOMELY POWERFUL features besides ‘running pipelines’ is Azure Boards, providing an end-to-end project methodology platform using Scrum, Agile, CMMI or custom approach. In this post, I mainly wanted to zoom in on the custom capabilities, capturing feedback from employees - which got entered through an Office Forms form, picked up by Azure Logic Apps, and stored in a customized Azure Boards Work Item.

Azure Spring Clean - DCK, ACR, ACI, AKS, ACA, the Azure Container Alphabet Soup

Hey friends, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton where I’m honored to be able to participate in again for the 4th year already. Thanks guys for trusting me once more for sharing some Azure knowledge… This time, I wanted to try and guide you through the buzzword of the last couple of years, containers… and more specifically, what different options you have in Azure to run your containerized workloads.

Festive Tech Calendar 2022 - Building a Marvel Hero app using Blazor Web Assembly and Azure Static Web Apps

Building a Marvel Hero catalog app using Blazor Web Assembly Introduction This article describes all the steps on how to develop a Marvel Hero catalog app, using Blazor Web Assembly, and is a companion guide to the Festive Tech Calendar 2022 session I presented. This app introduces Blazor .NET development, and more specifically how to easily create a Single Page App using HTML, CSS and API calls to an external API Service at https://developer.

How OnyxBoox - with some help from a friend - got me back to reading more... books

I have to admit, I am not a real book reader, and the bit of reading I am doing typically involves Azure-related tech books, or what my wife and family describes as “business books” (Biographies, Non-fiction company stories such as the start of Netflix, Uber, Silicon Valley,…). For several years, I relied on an Amazon Kindle app on my (cheap) Samsung A8 tablet, dating from the time I was traveling weekly and wanted to travel light.

How to clear the Azure Portal Recent Resources list

This post is a short one, but something that has been bugging me for a while, where I didn’t even know how to fix it. As I am deploying a lot of different Azure Resources every week while delivering Azure trainings, I also run a lot of deletions during the week, or at least by the end of the week. To repeat about the same process the week after when doing another Azure training delivery.