Pieter de Bruin

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2024

Resiliency

Quality in terms of reliability and resiliency is getting attention lately. For the past decade, I have worked with customers to create solutions in the publ...

Sample prompts

While I was at the AI tour in Berlin last week, I noticed that hearing other people’s experience with copilots help me think out of the box and make me try m...

My RAG chat

As first step to experiment with the RAG chat sample, I adopted it to forget the sample data and learn about my own blog posts instead. The sample shows a qu...

Techorama 2024

This week I helped the organization of Techorama Netherlands. The event was held on tuesday and wednesday in Utrecht. It was a fantastic place to meet engine...

My setup

I am a big fan of open source and cross-platform. And I also work for a company that build Windows and cares about security. So what tools do I use to get st...

Webassembly and OCI

Distribute webassembly components using OCI registries! 🎉 See this blog post about creating a webassembly component in Rust and pushing it to GitHub Packages...

RAG Chat

The planned explaining posts of the RAG sample may have to wait, since other things are happening :-) First, Pamela Fox, who created the sample, presented a...

AI Samples

Starting from scratch can be daunting. I prefer to reuse a sample of some sort and then customize to my needs. This means you may have a bit of a learning cu...

RAG Hack

Retrieval Augmented Generation Hackathon starts on September 3. Repo with more info, stream schedule, samples, registration: https://aka.ms/raghack Large la...

GitHub Models

GitHub Models in public preview: Every developer can now become an AI developer with AI models in GitHub Marketplace integrated with Code 🎉 Blog post Video...

.NET Conf Focus on AI

The recording of dotnetconf with a focus on AI is here: 8 hours of in-depth content on a variety of .NET solutions with artificial intelligence. YouTube pla...

Startup Azure subscriptions and tenants

When you are new to a technology, vendor or ecosystem, you may find that others talk about concepts, which may be common to them but alien to you. Tenants an...

Startup Microsoft Entra

In previous posts I described ways to get started with Azure, and walked through the steps required to create an Azure subscription. Since identity is consid...

Startup Azure free trial

I like to experiment with technology. Recently I was wondering what it looks like to start to use Azure as a new customer nowadays. In another post I explain...

Startup on Azure

During my work with customers everyday, I have met various types and sizes of organizations. Sure, this would vary depending on the organization or departmen...

Volunteering at three local events

Recently I was able to meet real people at events: AI Community Day, Experts Live, and Azure Lowlands. These events cost money to attend, but you can get in ...

Microsoft Q&A

❓ Do you have a question about Microsoft technologies but afraid to ask?

Dapr

Dapr is a distributed application runtime that helps manage common challenges in development. Simply put: every app has state it needs to store, and services...

.NET Aspire

As you know, I love how Microsoft Azure has changed my work from competition between languages and products to freedom of choice. No more: my language is bet...

Build 2024

Microsoft Build in May and Ignite in November are the top events organized by Microsoft. To no one’s surprise, much of the news at Build this week was about ...

PyCon 2024

PyCon is happening this week. It is a great conference and we have lots of interesting content too, incl presentations on debugger, cpython, dev environments...

LinkedIn learning paths

In LinkedIn Learning, I looked at career journey, which has career goals and role guides. For instance, I entered product manager as career goal, which has a...

Phi3 SLM

By now you get the point that artificial intelligence gets a lot of attention. Large language models and generative ai provide new capabilities and opporunit...

Radius CNCF sandbox

At Ignite, project Radius was announced. This week Radius was accepted as CNCF sandbox project.

KubeCon EU 2024 Azure day

KubeCon EU happened in Paris from March 19 to 22. Before the main event, Microsoft organized a preday about Azure. The recorded presentations from that day a...

Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator

Are you using Kubernetes and wondering how to add AI to it? 🤔 Take a look at Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) to deploy an AI model to AKS 🎉

.NET 8 and AI quickstarts

If you’ve been thinking of infusing your existing .NET apps with generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs), now is a great time to dive in and we have...

Azure AI cli

I just used Azure AI CLI, a cross-platform tool in preview that can connect your application to Azure AI services and perform operations without having to wr...

Web development for beginners

Get ready to build your next great web app with .NET! ASP.NET Core is a fully featured and high-performance web framework that ships as part of the .NET plat...

ZoomIt DemoType

Sysinternals is a collection of tools, started ages by Mark Russinovich. One of the great tools for presenters is ZoomIt, a screen zoom, annotation, and reco...

Azure AI studio

Dive into Azure AI Studio to learn how your customers can build generative AI applications such as an enterprise chat copilot. We’ll share how to use prebuil...

Mastering GitHub copilot

Unlock the power of collaborative coding with our comprehensive curriculum on Mastering GitHub Copilot for Paired Programming. This cutting-edge program seam...

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2023

mslearn.link

In January 2022 I moved from Microsoft Netherlands to Microsoft Corp to work on Microsoft Learn. At the time our team started to run various programs to grow...

Global AI conference

Global AI Conference is an online conference organized by the community to share the latest and greatest about artificial intelligence. Join us for many pres...

WebAssembly with .NET

About 10 years ago, containers were the big change in application development and deployment. Since then, a lot has changed: technology has evolved, people h...

C# for beginners

Interested in learning c# (or how to create dev videos)? Watch the c# for beginners series.

Radius

Radius is a new project from the Azure incubations team. It helps devs and ops engineers to collaborate by defining an app’s cloud-native infrastructure as c...

Azure portal copilot

Hi copilot, can you please show me the steps and cli commands to host a nosql database and webapp in Azure? 😍

ASP chisel and trim

Excited about dotnetconf this week? How about this: ASPNET runs on Linux and containers (for 7+ years). By default 217MB 🤔 using Ubuntu for compatibility. Wa...

Applied skills challenges

I just earned a new Applied Skill credential on Microsoft Learn 🎉, and so can you 😍 (A 2-hour hands-on test in an interactive Azure lab environment) Read mor...

Bicep

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Microsoft Learn contributor home

Microsoft Learn is the authority for documentation and training content of Microsoft products and services. Our writers and product groups do their best to p...

Azure AI engineer

I just passed exam AI-102 and received the Azure AI Engineer certification 🎉 And so can you 🙂

New year plans

This week is an interesting one for people working in a team with people in the United States, where the 4th of July is a public holiday, and many people tak...

Year in review

One year ago I restarted blogging. I was planning to experiment with content in various ways. This resulted in 40 (sometimes micro) blog posts, roughly one p...

Azure CNI with Cilium

As a devops engineer, I don’t want to worry about compute, storage, and networking :-) I learned this the hard way at a calico training in a previous life.

Generative AI

By now, you have heard about chatgpt, and probably also tried it yourself. Maybe you had it create a paragraph of text for a blog post, or create an image of...

Repos for beginners

Democratizing knowledge the pragmatic way Did you know about Microsoft repos for beginners?

Most valuable professional

Once upon a time I was a Microsoft most valuable professional. At the time, I worked in a company that facilitated knowledge sharing and I worked with other ...

Microsoft Build cloud skills challenge

Microsoft Build is happening on May 23-24. Both Build and Ignite are big events at Microsoft; many product groups prepare to have something interesting to pr...

VS Code day 2023

This week the VS Code day happened. If you missed it, you can catch up the recordings of 15 presentations ranging from VS Code essentials, GitHub integration...

KubeCon EU 2023

Last week I attended KubeCon. Nowadays I don’t have much opportunity to travel to conferences, so when one of the biggest events shows up about 30 kilometers...

AKS start here

When you want to learn more about running Kubernetes on Azure, Microsoft Learn has you covered from training, reference implementations to operations best pr...

Ubuntu on Surface laptop studio

Recently I received a new work laptop, a Surface Laptop Studio and previously a Surface Book. Obviously Surface devices run Windows by default. And I also wa...

Azure Kubernetes Service introduction

In previous roles I used to work a lot with containers. Next month KubeCon is happening close to my home and I will be helping out at the booth and discussin...

Azure AI

Previously data science and artificial intelligence were areas only accessible for people who had studied it during their master or phd. While some parts are...

Learning the big three

Technology trends come in waves. Sometimes they change something, and sometimes they just fade. Recently I have seen quite some discussion about various java...

AKS free tier

Last week the free tier for Azure Kubernetes Service was announced. Although it is correct, it also requires elaboration.

Continuous validation

Recently I ran into an interesting project that deserves more attention: Mission critical online. And they made it to Azure Friday, so it is not exactly a se...

Microsoft Q&A update

There are many things we don’t know but others may: Sometimes you seach for answers, ask a colleague or a friend, or post on a forum. For that last option th...

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2022

Cost management

There is a new cost optimization campaign, which reminded me I haven’t blogged about cost management yet.

Secure VM access using Azure Bastion

In previous episodes you may have witnessed me use a virtual machine in Azure. I always do that using Azure Bastion, which gives you secure access to Linux a...

Defender for DevOps

Earlier this year I studied GitHub learning paths to prepare for the GitHub advanced security exam. Recently there was a new reason to play with advanced sec...

Entra and Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Using Microsoft Graph’s APIs and the corr...

.NET and Linux and containers

Did you know DotNet runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows? It also runs in containers. .NET 6.0 is the long-term support (3 years) version released last year. .NE...

30 days of Microsoft Graph

Everyday millions of people spend their precious time on productivity tools. What if you use data and intelligence behind the Microsoft applications (Microso...

Secure webassembly

At KubeCon in Detroit there was much attention for webassembly, a very interesting development although still in early stages. When you have followed the dev...

Azure. Cloud for all.

A couple of years ago Azure had the tagline: Cloud for all. I loved that because it made clear that you can run your solution on Azure, regardless of the ope...

Ignite 2022

This week was about Ignite. Build, which happened earlier in the year, and Ignite are big Microsoft events where many product announcements are made.

Azure developer cli

DevOps Starter is a service that can help you get started with Azure very quickly: with just a few clicks you can select a programming language, and a comput...

Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide event held during the month of October. The event encourages open source developers to contribute to repositories throug...

Identity summit

On September 22 I attended Cloud Identity Summit in Bonn, Germany. Stefan van der Wiele informed me of the event, where he was going to run a workshop on Azu...

Learn rebrand

Microsoft Learn is the new home for all technical content, learning tools and resources. Documentation is still there https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/?wt.m...

GitHub learning paths

Recently I learned about three GitHub learning paths and certifications. Since one of them is on security, I decided to explore that one.

Identity videos

Check out these six videos by April Edwards and Christos Matskas on Getting started with Microsoft Identity.

Experimenting with content

I love to learn all the things in information technology. And I think sharing those learnings are a great way to learn them even better: To explain things, y...

Contributing

In this post I described a recent conference presentation about sharing knowledge and becoming a thought leader. There are lots of ways to share like social ...

Share your knowledge

On June 30 Sherry List and I presented at Azure Lowlands in Utrecht Netherlands. This was a great experience for many of reasons.

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2020

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