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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Azure Container Registry Tasks (ACR Tasks) is the cloud-native answer to one of the most common pain points in containerized development — inconsistent builds caused by different Docker Desktop versions across developer machines. With ACR Tasks, you offload the entire build, test, and push pipeline to Azure itself — no Docker installation required. This AI-200 certification guide covers Quick Tasks, Triggered Tasks, Multi-Step Tasks, Managed Identity authentication, and the best practices Microsoft expects you to implement for containerized AI workloads on Azure.
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Choosing the right AI model for your application doesn’t have to be guesswork. Microsoft Azure AI Foundry provides a powerful, end-to-end platform to deploy, manually compare, and automatically evaluate large language models using industry-standard quality and safety metrics. In this guide, we walk through the complete workflow — deploying GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1-mini, running side-by-side playground comparisons, and setting up automated evaluations that score your models on Groundedness, Coherence, Relevance, Fluency, and DeflectionRate. The result? Data-driven confidence in your AI model selection.
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