Enabling Custom (Bicep) Language Server support in OpenCode
I wanted Bicep diagnostics to show up in OpenCode with a custom LSP setup, as I noticed the models making a bunch of mistakes without it. Here's how to do it.…
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Designing a shared OpenTelemetry contract for AI services on Azure
In this post I'll walk through how I went about making multiple services behave like they belong to the same platform from an OpenTelemetry perspective.…
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Semantic Kernel to Microsoft Agent Framework: Practical reflections
Now that MAF is nearing a GA release, I took my existing demo and translated it to see how the new framework feels in real code. In this post I'll recap my thoughts on the new framework.…
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Preserving MCP session continuity with Redis
I ran into a fairly mundane MCP issue recently that only really shows up once the server stops living on one process forever: Sessions.…
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Connecting OpenCode with Microsoft Foundry Models
In this post I'll show you how I've configured the providers to my own Foundry, which hosts both the recently announced Anthropic models as well as models by OpenAI and others.…
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Azure AI Dev Platform Fundamentals
In this post I'll describe some of the fundamental building blocks of creating an AI Dev platform for organizations in Azure.…
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A simple document processing pipeline that worked
I've been involved in a fair number of document processing projects on Azure. This post describes one of them at the pattern level.…
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Wrapping your head around Azure AI Foundry resources
A while back, Microsoft had a huge hype cycle around the rename of Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry. I've had a while to get to know the product and in this post will try to open up how it all works from a Azure resource perspective.…
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Intro to Managed DevOps Pools
The Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) resource in Azure has been Generally Available since Ignite 2024. Let's see how to set one up, and discuss why I think this solves a common problem in my projects: requiring deployments into VNETs.…
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Setting up Kubernetes as an External Identity Provider for Workload Identity Federation
In this post we'll see how to set up our own Kubernetes cluster to act as an External Identity Provider.…
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How does workload identity federation actually work?
In this post, I'll try to explain the internal workings of workload identity federation.…
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Quick ways of getting ObjectIds
A few quick ways of figuring out objectIds when you don't have access to the Entra Portal…
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Simple Log Aggregation with Azure Metrics Aggregator
I created a simple tool to make aggregation of data easier for Azure Monitor based alerts…
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Using Azure AI Speech SDK with Go
In this blog post I'll provide some examples and observations on how to set up and use the Azure AI Speech service from a Go application.…
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Simple Azure app deployment automation for Developers
A look into a simple approach to automating deployments to Azure that can be run locally using powershell. Also includes thoughts on Azure Developer CLI (azd)…
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