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Stop storing SQL passwords in App Settings. This hands-on guide walks through connecting Azure App Service to Azure SQL Database using a User-Assigned Managed Identity with Python FastAPI and pyodbc — covering identity assignment, Entra admin setup, contained database users, and the one connection string parameter everyone forgets.
Coming from .NET, hosting a Python API on Azure App Service holds three surprises: Windows isn’t an option, FastAPI needs an explicit startup command, and pyodbc demands a driver name your .NET connection strings never had. This article walks through all three — including installing ODBC Driver 18 from the SSH console and making it survive restarts.
Azure App Configuration gives you one central place to manage all your application settings and feature flags — no redeployment needed when values change. In this article, we walk through every creation option in the Azure Portal, explain why each setting matters, and tie it back to the AI-200 exam
Azure Managed Redis supports three foundational caching patterns every cloud application eventually needs: data cache (cache-aside for database query offload), content cache (Redis Output Cache Provider for server-side rendering), and session store (distributed state for stateless scale-out). This hub article explains each pattern conceptually, ties it to the AI-200 exam, and links to its dedicated hands-on lab.
Two retirement clocks are ticking for Azure Cache for Redis — Enterprise goes away March 31, 2027, and Basic/Standard/Premium follows on September 30, 2028. Azure Managed Redis (AMR) is the single destination for both migrations, but the path involves a port change, a new hostname pattern, and no more quorum nodes. Here’s exactly what changes and how to plan your migration.
Azure Managed Redis (AMR) is Microsoft’s enterprise-grade, fully managed Redis service — built on the Redis Enterprise stack, not open-source Redis. Available since May 2025, it goes far beyond caching: one service covers distributed caching, session state, pub/sub messaging, and vector similarity search for RAG pipelines. Here’s what every AI-200 candidate needs to know.
Azure Container Apps Express (Preview) is a brand-new, simplified deployment mode that auto-provisions its environment and gets your container live in under 3 minutes — but it’s not yet available in the main Azure Portal. Learn how to create and configure an Express App using the dedicated portal at containerapps.azure.com and Azure CLI, with a hands-on walkthrough covering image selection, scale (0–300 replicas), networking, and ingress.
Azure HorizonDB (Preview) is Microsoft’s new fully managed PostgreSQL platform that combines relational, vector, graph, and AI pipeline capabilities in a single cluster. This article walks through cluster creation, compute scaling options, enabling graph queries with Apache AGE, and building durable AI pipelines using the azure_ai extension.
Microsoft replaced AI-102 and AZ-204 with two brand-new certifications in 2026 — AI-103 and AI-200 — and they are not interchangeable. This article breaks down exactly which cert maps to your role, whether you’re a Python developer, a .NET developer, or someone who doesn’t write code at all.
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