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Durable Execution for AI workflows
If you follow me on LinkedIn, you know I have talked about agentic workflows versus agents. Although everybody talks about agents, workflows are often better suited to many tasks. A workflow is more deterministic, is easier to reason about and to troubleshoot. Anthropic also talked about this a while ago in Building Effective Agents. In…
aiDeploying AI Foundry Agents and Azure Container Apps to support an Agent2Agent solution
In previous posts, I discussed multi-agent solutions and the potential use of Google’s Agent2Agent protocol (A2A). In this post, we will deploy the infrastructure for an end-to-end solution like follows: Here’s a short description of the components. Component Description Foundry Project Basic Foundry project with a private endpoint. The private endpoint ensures private communication between…
aiAuthenticate to Azure Resources with Azure Managed Identities
In this post, we will take a look at managed identities in general and system-assigned managed identity in particular. Managed identities can be used by your code to authenticate to Azure AD resources from Azure compute resources that support it, like virtual machines and containers. But first, let’s look at the other option and why…
azureInfrastructure as Code: exploring Pulumi
Image: from the Pulumi website In my Twitter feed, I often come across Pulumi so I decided to try it out. Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code solution that allows you to use familiar development languages such as JavaScript, Python and Go. The idea is that you define your infrastructure in the language that you…
automationDraft: a simpler way to deploy to Kubernetes during development
If you work with containers and work with Kubernetes, Draft makes it easier to deploy your code while you are in the earlier development stages. You use Draft while you are working on your code but before you commit it to version control. The idea is simple: You have some code written in something like…
apiIoT Hub Scaling
When you work with Azure IoT Hub, it is not always easy to tell what will happen when you reach the limits of IoT Hub and what to do when you reach those limits. As a reminder, recall that the scale of IoT Hub is defined by its tier and the number of units in…
azureFault Domains in Azure IaaSv2
With the availability of IaaSv2 in Microsoft Azure, several new features are available that dramatically change the way resources are deployed and maintained. One profound change is the introduction of three fault domains for IaaSv2 virtual machines as opposed to two fault domains for IaaSv1 virtual machines. In the case of Azure, a fault domain…
azureOffice 365 SharePoint Online Storage
Microsoft has recently published updated Office 365 Service Descriptions at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c6ecc6c-64f5-490a-bca3-8835c9a4a2ea. The SharePoint Online service description contains some interesting information, some of which I did not know yet. We typically receive a lot of questions about SharePoint online and storage. The list below summarizes the storage related features: The storage pool starts at 10GB with…
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