🗄️Databricks-SQL at Your Agent's Fingertips via MCP in GitHub Copilot
In my previous post we built a custom tool to make ETL output order consistent. This time we keep the idea of purpose built tooling but let Copilot …
Read More🔧Build Tools, Not Prompts – Extend GitHub Copilot with Task-Specific Agents
GitHub.com recently announced the public preview of its Copilot coding agent, which can take ownership of entire issues, plan the steps, and work …
Read More🔗You Can Now Connect Your Own Model for GitHub Copilot 🤯
GitHub Copilot Chat has taken a big leap forward by letting you connect your own custom AI model - for instance powered by Azure AI Foundry - to the …
Read More📄Document Creation with AI Agent Workflows
Organizations manage a broad spectrum of official documents, from internal memos and client proposals to compliance submissions and operational …
Read More📝Generating Easy-to-Understand Changelogs for Document Revisions
I often see customers eager to leverage generative AI to better understand and reason over their existing data. One common scenario is comparing …
Read More🎙️Building an Interactive Text-to-Podcast Experience with GPT-4o Real Time API
Before diving into the article, there’s also a podcast version available! 😉 🔊 Listen to the Podcast We’ve all been there — you have …
Read More🧠Elevating RAG with Multi-Agent Systems
In the wake of the generative AI revolution, we’ve witnessed a surge in AI-powered applications promising to transform how we interact with …
Read More💻Integrating AI-Powered Coding Assistance into Your Custom Web IDE
Over the past few weeks, it has been my privilege to collaborate with my distinguished colleagues, Damiano Curia, Carlos Garcia Lalicata, Francesco …
Read More🖼️Chat with Your Photos: Revolutionizing Asset Cataloging with GPT-4 Vision
In the digital era, extensive libraries of images have become ubiquitous across multiple industries, such as e-commerce, education, marketing, and …
Read More🔄Integrate PromptFlow into a CI/CD pipeline (On-Agent)
With the ongoing updates in Large Language Models (LLMs) and their orchestration libraries, it is important to recognize and prepare for potential …
Read More🕰️Relevance and Recency in AI Apps
In past articles, I talked about making a chatbot called “Upskiller” that uses the vast information from YouTube videos about Azure. …
Read More🤖The Journey of Crafting an AI Chatbot
I often study a lot of material to understand the details of Azure services. Interestingly, I’ve found that sometimes the most insightful …
Read More💰11 Tips to Supercharge Your Pet Projects on Azure Kubernetes Without Emptying Your Wallet!
Before we start, remember these tips are meant for fun projects that can handle some downtime. We are trying to cut costs and this may mean your …
Read More🔐Azure API Management: Validating Multiple OIDC Issuers for a Single API
Azure API Management can give you security-in-depth by already identifying invalid requests containing no or invalid JWT tokens on your requests …
Read MoreAzure OpenAI with APIM 🕵️
Over the past few months, we all witnessed a surge in popularity of Large Language Models. I’ve personally worked on several proof-of-concepts …
Read More🤖No Humans Needed: How ChatGPT Builds Apps Without You
Disclaimer: I’m just experimenting with this as a personal hobby / for fun. There has been a lot of buzz lately surrounding the ReAct Prompt …
Read MoreExploring the Capabilities of Large Language Models: Analyzing Unstructured Text 🕵️
Recently, there has been a lot of hype around large language models and their application in chatbots. However, there is so much more that this …
Read MoreRunning a window manager on top of WSL2
WSL2 is the optimal solution for bringing the Linux command line experience to Windows. The user experience when using the Windows Terminal is great. …
Read MoreBuilding a Unity game in one day using ChatGPT and DALL·E 2
I recently built a Unity game with the help of ChatGPT, an amazing tool for developers. I included DALLE-2 for graphics and video game backgrounds. …
Read MoreSome Experiments with ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a GPT-based chatbot developed by OpenAI that allows users to engage in natural language conversations with a virtual assistant. This …
Read MoreAccessing ARM preview features in Terraform
Terraform helps users get the most out of their cloud when provisioning infrastructure in an automated and repeatable way. Azure Resource Manager …
Read MoreApplication Insights for Java Applications: Triggering Profiling Sessions Automatically
Profiling applications can be a difficult and time-consuming process, but it is essential for understanding how an application is performing and where …
Read MoreSetting App Configuration Values with Special Characters using Azure CLI
I recently ran into an issue when setting app settings via the az functionapp config appsettings command. The issue specifically occurs when there are …
Read MoreSpinning up a temporary desktop environment within GitHub Codespaces
As developers, we are always looking for ways to be more productive. An iPad with GitHub Codespaces is a great developer experience. The iPad is …
Read MoreUsing Selenium within GitHub Actions
When working with GitHub Actions it can be useful to use Selenium. A common use case is for example the verification of a deployment (e.g. checking if …
Read MoreUsing an iPad for Coding
It is probably no surprise for you if I tell you that I am writing this on an iPad. Recently I was looking into GitHub Codespaces. A tool that makes …
Read MoreReading From Sheets During a Batch Job
One would usually use an interactive login to access the Google Sheets on behalf of a user. This approach works perfectly if the user is sitting in …
Read MoreLessons learned from moving to linux-arm64
I recently moved to a Macbook M1 as my daily driver (running Linux on top). It came to my surprise how well everything worked it was. Virtualization …
Read MoreExtract named entities using Azure Cognitive Services
This year I helped to build drugplug as part of Hack Zurich. One key feature of the app is the extraction of relevant information or warnings out of a …
Read MoreAnnotate pictures using imagemagick
Recently I’ve started to publish sticker designs on redbubble. As I am after the “long-tail” items, I planned to generate hundreds …
Read MoreLog4j Vulnerabilities and Apache Karaf (CVE-2021–44228)
In this article, we are going to take a look at the impact of the recent log4j Zero-Day on Apache Karaf based apps. The situation is evolving, I …
Read MoreHow to Upgrade log4j
With the recent log4j vulnerability, everyone is currently patching their Java Applications. In this article, we’re going to take a look how …
Read More🛰️Himawari-8 Live Background in i3
Himawari-8 provides free live feed images (every 10 minutes) from geostationary orbit. I’ve put together a small script to get it as a …
Read More🖥️Looking Glass
No, I’m not talking about Mozilla’s newest mass-roll-outed Mr Robot Addon. Looking Glass is a Linux app developed by Geoffrey McRae of …
Read More🖼️Upscale Photos using Neural Enhance online
Neural Enhance is a fantastic Machine Learning Showcase. It lets you upscale photos by ‘inventing’ details using machine learning. Neural …
Read More🔄Flexible Webservice Orchestration on Talend ESB using Apache Camel's Content Enricher Functionality
A couple of months ago, I presented how to implement a simple orchestration case on Talend ESB using Apache Camel and Apache CXF. This reference …
Read More🔍Pushing Data to Elastic Search in Apache Camel
There are several options how to push data from within a camel route to Elastic Search. If your goal is to additionally pipe your data which goes …
Read More📊Visualize Talend Service Activity Monitoring using SAMvisual
The subscription version of Talend ESB comes with so called “Event Logging”. Event Logging can give you valuable insight into the activity …
Read More🌐Is Magnolia-CMS the right fit for Microsites?
Magnolia CMS – typically used in Enterprise environments – is a powerful, java based CMS. The community edition comes pre-packed with an Apache Tomcat …
Read More🎮RescueBomb – A multiplayer Bomberman/Rescue the princess game
This year, PRODYNA hosted a company-internal Hackathon. All employees of our branch (Switzerland) were divided into teams of three to four members. …
Read More🔐Reviewing SSH Activity using Elastic Search / Kibana
Keeping an eye on your server’s SSH activity from time to time is recommended. I created a dashboard using Kibana/Elastic Search to quickly …
Read More🔄Orchestration on Talend ESB using Apache Camel & Apache CXF
Orchestration is a key feature of every modern ESB. According to Wikipedia, the definition goes: “Orchestration is the automated arrangement, …
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