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Azure; Private vs Service Endpoints

Service Endpoints : Secure but Not Private A Service Endpoint allows your VNet’s identity to reach an Azure service (such as Storage or SQL Database) through M…

McKinsey 2025 AI Report – lots of noise, few returns

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/superagency-in-the-workplace-empowering-people-to-unlock-ais-full-potential-at-work (last one in…

Reference Architecture Concept Azure AI

AI is a big category. You will need skills to understand, build, deploy and manage AI projects. You will need more than just ‘AI’ to build AI and d…

Azure Delta Lake, simple overview

Azure Delta Lake is a method to wrap Parquet data formats, in a ‘neutral’ format for data processing. It is akin to Iceberg. Azure supports ‘…

Azure AI Foundry vs Azure Well Architected Framework

Azure AI Foundry offers a compliance-first design and enterprise scaffolding necessary to safely move from experimental AI use cases to production-grade automa…

Delta Lake, Delta Format vs Iceberg

If you build a Data Lake or Lakehouse in Azure, or in AWS, and you choose ‘Delta Lake’ or the ‘Delta Format’ for Azure or AWS, you migh…

Azure Data Lake Concept summarised.

Azure Data Lake Concepts summarised. Why Delta Lake in Azure is a best practices implementation of a Data Lakehouse concept. ==END

Function App workflow and AI workloads

Function App Role in an AI Data Flow A Function App is typically used for serverless, small-scale, and responsive tasks, ensuring the overall pipeline remains …

Azure Delta Lake

Typical example of a Delta Lake and ‘Lakehouse’ architecture. The Delta Lake format as the primary storage layer for the Bronze and Gold zones is c…

Azure, AI RAG and issues

RAG or Retrieval Augmented Generation services some standard use cases. Use Case: Customised AI system to address externally facing processes and to build busi…

CoPilot Agents at a Client

Azure Copilot and AI

Component Role Why It’s Needed Copilot / Client Application The user-facing interface where a query or request is initiated. This is the starting point o…