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In this blog post, I’ll share my experience building a .NET 8 Azure Function App that retrieves a user profile via the Microsoft Graph API. The function app is designed to run in Azure and return the user profile of the logged-in user via Microsoft Entra-ID. While the technical implementation was exciting, the interesting part of this journey was using GitHub Copilot as a code reviewer through Pull Requests in GitHub. It became generally available on April 4th. I’ll walk you through the process, share my thoughts on Copilot’s feedback, and highlight areas where it shines and where it could improve. ...

Exploring NotebookLM’s Audio Overview Feature Context Recently, Google introduced an exciting new feature for NotebookLM: Audio Overview. For those unfamiliar, NotebookLM is a personal AI-powered research assistant (powered by Gemini 1.5 Pro) designed for efficient summarization and note-taking. By uploading your documents, whether PDFs, websites, or text files, NotebookLM analyzes and organizes the content. This allows you to interact with it in various ways. The Audio Overview feature, in particular, caught my attention. It essentially creates a podcast-like experience where two AI hosts discuss your research topic in real time. This conversational format offers a unique way to engage with your content, which can make complex topics more accessible and enjoyable. What’s even better? You can guide the discussion by providing specific instructions, ensuring the conversation focuses on aspects most relevant to you. ...

Are you keen on exploring the fusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and minimal APIs in the world of C#? If so, you’re in the right place! In this article, I’ll walk you through the integration of Semantic Kernel, an open-source SDK facilitating Large Language Models (LLMs) integration, into a minimal API built using ASP.NET Core in .NET 8. By using the power of OpenAI’s GPT-3, we’ll go on a journey to create a plugin that crafts narratives based on user input. ...

You probably are wondering how this website is built and where it is hosted. Maybe you already find out the answer to the first question. This website is powered by Ghost. Ghost is a free and open source blogging platform. They have 2 versions, one managed and one self-hosted. I opted for the self-hosted solution since I usually like to deep dive into IT related projects. Also I wanted to learn how to deploy a blogging website to a self-hosted platform. My blog represents my company AJTech Consulting. This blog is hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and deployed via Terraform (which is an Infrastructure as Code tool) into Docker containers. A container running the Ghost engine, one running the MySQL database and a container running the reverse proxy with Traefik. A reverse proxy is a server that accepts a request from a client and then forwards the request to another server. So basically it sits in front of backend applications. To keep the containers up-to-date and receive important updates I regularly run a script on the Linux VM. ...

Usually when running software workload (e.g. script or container-based applications) an identity is involved for authentication and access resources. Software workload running inside Microsoft Azure can use a Service Principal or (User)-Managed Identity. However, when running software workload outside Azure most of the times we have to use credentials (like secrets or certificates) in order to access Azure AD protected resources such as Azure Key Vault or Azure Storage. This can pose a risk since secrets needs to be stored somewhere and regularly rotated to improve security. ...