In this post, I’ll walk you through a simple yet effective approach we use at Purple Leaf to ensure our application stay online, even when Azure OpenAI service faces throttling or downtime. By deploying Azure OpenAI in multiple regions and implementing a smart failover strategy, we’re able to … [Read more...]
Keeping Your Azure OpenAI App Running Smoothly During Service Interruptions
November 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Smart To-Do Creator: Combining the ease of Azure Logic Apps and the power of Generative AI
March 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In this post, I am going to talk about how I built a smart to-do creator using Azure Logic Apps and Generative AI (Azure OpenAI service). I recently took a course of LinkedIn Learning about Azure Logic Apps (called Azure Logic Apps - Building solutions for data and integration) and thought I would … [Read more...]
Azure Sidekick – An AI Assistant to Answer Questions About Your Azure Resources (Part III – Lessons Learned)
February 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Best way to learn a new technology is by building something (regardless of how big or small it is) with it. This was my primary intent behind building Azure Sidekick. I had so much fun building this and learnt a lot of things along the way. Not only I learnt more about Microsoft Semantic Kernel … [Read more...]
Azure Sidekick – An AI Assistant to Answer Questions About Your Azure Resources (Part II – Prompt Patterns & More)
February 14, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In my previous post about Azure Sidekick, I gave a general introduction about the tool and its capabilities. If you have not read that post so far, I would strongly encourage you to read that first. You can read that post here. In this post, I will talk about the general flow of the application, … [Read more...]
Azure Sidekick – An AI Assistant to Answer Questions About Your Azure Resources (Introduction)
February 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment
I am pleased to present to you Azure Sidekick, an AI assistant that can answer questions about the resources running in your Azure Subscriptions. Unlike my other posts which are quite code heavy, in these series of posts about this tool, I will take you through the journey I undertook while … [Read more...]
Microsoft Semantic Kernel – Some Tips & Tricks To Get Prompt & Completion Tokens
February 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
In my previous post, I talked about how you can get rendered prompts. In this post, I am going to talk about ways to get prompt and completion tokens when using Microsoft Semantic Kernel. What are Tokens? Let's first begin with what tokens really are. In very simple terms, a token is the … [Read more...]
Microsoft Semantic Kernel – Some Tips & Tricks To Get Rendered Prompts
February 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment
When you start building a new AI application, most likely you start with a very simple prompt where you write everything you need to do in that prompt only. However, as the application grows, you write more prompts and that's when you start templatizing your prompts by extracting things that are … [Read more...]
Using OpenAI Function Calling with Microsoft Semantic Kernel
December 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this post we are going to see how we can use OpenAI's Function Calling feature with Microsoft Semantic Kernel. Context To explain the concepts in this post, let's set the context. Let's say that you are building an AI application that helps users answer basic questions about Maths (e.g. … [Read more...]
Azure Docs Copilot – A Generative AI App for Searching Azure Documentation
September 11, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Recently I have been spending a good amount of time reading about Generative AI. I shared the list of resources I used here. To me, the best way to learn a new technology is to build something using that technology. Azure Docs Copilot is my attempt at applying my learnings about this incredible … [Read more...]
Comparing Azure Storage Blob Versions and Snapshots
November 29, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Recently Azure Storage team announced the availability of blob versions. A blob version essentially represents the state of a blob (in terms of content, properties and metadata etc.) at a particular point of time. Azure Storage automatically creates a new version of a blob whenever it is modified or … [Read more...]