AI 200 – Your AI App Shouldn’t Need a Redeploy to Change a Setting – Azure App Configuration Store
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
Common Cache Strategies in Azure Managed Redis
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.
Azure Cache for Redis vs. Enterprise vs. Azure Managed Redis: What Retires When, and Where to Go
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.
AI-200 Developers – What Is Azure Managed Redis
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.
AI 200 – Azure Container Apps Express: Blazing-Fast Deployments Without the Overhead
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) – Cluster Creation, Compute Scaling, Graph DB & AI Pipelines
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.
AI-103 vs AI-200 – Which Azure AI Certification Is Right for You?
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.
AI-200 – Azure Container Registry – ACR Automatically Triggered Tasks
ACR Automatically Triggered Tasks connect Azure Container Registry directly to your Git repository — every code push fires a build automatically, no manual CLI commands required. In this hands-on lab, you will link ACR to an Azure DevOps repo, create a triggered task, and watch a container image build and push itself on every commit.
AI-200 – Azure Container Registry – ACR Quick Tasks Build Container Images Without Docker Desktop
ACR Quick Tasks lets you build and push container images to Azure Container Registry entirely in the cloud — no Docker Desktop required. In this hands-on lab, you will create a registry, write a Dockerfile, and run az acr build to see exactly how Azure handles the entire build pipeline for you.
