Microsoft recently released the new Phi-3-mini SLM (small language model), and I previously wrote about running Phi3 locally using Ollama. I've been exploring the world of hosting AI models in code lately, and this stuff is getting really interested. It turns out that...
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Read and Write Azure Blob Storage with C#
In this article, we'll explore how to integrate the Azure Storage SDK into a .NET application. We'll cover the steps to read and write blobs from Azure Storage, and we'll also discuss how to obtain your Storage Account Key. By the end of this guide, you'll have a...
Read and Write Azure Blob Storage with Javascript
In this article, we'll explore how to integrate the Azure Storage client library for Javascript into a Node.js application. We'll cover the steps to read and write blobs from Azure Storage, and we'll also discuss how to obtain your Storage Account Key. By the end of...
Exploring .NET Aspire: Building Cloud-Native Apps with Ease
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native application development, building scalable, observable, and production-ready distributed systems can...
Introducing AIChatUI: Open Source AI Chat Sample with Azure OpenAI Service & GPT-3 / GPT-4
Since I’ve been working with Azure OpenAI Service from a developer perspective as well, I’ve decided to build a sample application to help...
Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet
When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using...
Get Started with Python Scripting and Automation
Python is a popular programming language that is widely used for scripting, automation, data analysis, and web development. Python scripting is a...
Setup Visual Studio 2022 Development VM in Microsoft Azure
Sure, you could always install Visual Studio 2022 on your local machine, but there are times when a quick, easy to provision Virtual Machine with...
Azure Functions: Copy Blob Between Azure Storage Accounts in C#
I recently worked on a project where I was required to write an Azure Function that would watch for newly stored files in Azure Blob Storage, copy...
Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes
Azure Functions is the Serverless compute option within the Microsoft Azure platform. One of the biggest benefits of Azure Functions, and Serverless...
Fix Kubernetes Dashboard Strange 401 Unauthorized, 503 Service Unavailable Errors
When working with Kubernetes (K8s) using a kubectl proxy, or even in Azure with the az aks browse command using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)....
Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell
Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the...
VS Code Gets Linux ARMv7 and ARM64 Support
With the release of the v1.50 (September 2020) update of Visual Studio Code comes official support for Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. This means that...
Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020
Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of "Service...
Free eBook: Developer’s Guide to Azure: 2020 Edition
The new "Developer's Guide to Azure" eBook published from Microsoft, written by Build5Nines' own Chris Pietschmann, is your guide to getting started...
Azure Web App: Connection Strings
Just as all Azure Web Apps need configuration values, most applications also need to have database Connection String values configured. With Azure...
Azure Web App: Application Settings
All web applications have some kind of configurations that are set on the server. The method of storing and accessing these settings varies on...
Fix .NET Core HTTP Error 500.30 After Publish to App Service from Visual Studio
We all know that in production environments we shouldn't use the "right-click publish" feature within Visual Studio. However, there are plenty of...
Docker development VM in Azure
Ever wish you had a Docker dev workstation in Azure? About two months ago, we introduced the Azure Kung Fu VM, and judging by the views of that...
Getting Started with Visual Studio Codespaces – Cloud IDE
The Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online / VSO) web-based IDE is now available to be used. Based on the popular Visual Studio...
Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Codespaces
Microsoft's web-based development environment, Visual Studio Online, has been rebranded to Visual Studio Codespaces. This is a web-based development...