Azure Weekly

Issue #462 - 14th April 2024

Starting off with AI: Optimize Azure OpenAI Applications with Semantic Caching and Build a serverless ChatGPT with RAG using LangChain.js. Two good tutorials: How to build a Copilot for Security API Plugin – Part 1 and Implementing a Blazor-based BFF in Azure Container Apps.

In Cloud Native App Dev: Deploy Kaito on AKS using Terraform, and Unified Kubernetes Management Across Clouds with Azure Arc, and Update Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules at Scale.

In Data and Analytics: Building a Real-Time medallion architecture using Eventhouse in Microsoft Fabric, two interesting posts about Cosmos DB: Initial testing of Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB Databases in Microsoft Fabric, and A new way to change a Partition Key in CosmosDB, and a look at Exploring Azure Storage Actions for Blob Storage.

Finally, I've written a blog post. We've been modernising a number of our internal line of business applications. Some we've migrated to Microsoft Fabric, some we've turned into Streamlit applications. But we have a number of complex web applications. We settled on a modern stack of ASP.NET Core + Razor + HTMX hosted in Azure Container Apps and it's vastly simplified the codebase and improved performance. One challenge was integrating HTMX's elegant Hypermedia approach with more traditional HTTP JSON API requirements for data visualisation like Chart.js. I created a POC last year to demonstrate how we could leverage HTMX's extensibility mechanisms to combine the two worlds. The result has worked well for us. I've written a deep dive blog post, called ASP.NET Core + Razor + HTMX + Chart.js and provided a GitHub repo with the POC.