Azure Weekly

Issue #466 - 12th May 2024

Quite a packed issues this week - usually there's a lull before the Microsoft Build conference, but not this week! Starting with AI, there have been a flurry of posts about local development of LLMs, because of the new small LLM Phi-3. I might even publish a post about it in the next week or so! Exploring Microsoft's Phi-3 Family of Small Language Models SLMs with Azure AI, and Develop LLM Solutions In Local Environment, and Introducing GraphRAG with LangChain and Neo4j.

In Identity and Security: Basic understanding on Microsoft Entra custom claims provider, and Secure Azure Management Group Creation – Best Practices for Enhanced Security. There's a good post about VNet Flow Logs recipes and How to Refresh Expired Keys in Redis using Azure Functions.

Finally, in Analytics: Unleash the Power of Insights: Azure Resource Graph Power BI Data Connector Now Generally Available and Barry Smart continues his Microsoft Fabric Machine Learning Tutorial - Part 2 - Data Validation with Great Expectations and after a break to prep all the SQLBits talks and workshops, Ed Freeman continues his Microsoft Fabric End-to-End Demo series with Part 8 - Good Notebook Development Practices.