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Build knowledge-enhanced AI agents with Foundry IQ – RAG

I have built a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution using the Azure AI Search SDK and Azure OpenAI SDK. There is a lot to know about not only coding, configuring, and managing those components, but how they must be tuned, fed, and optimized are aspects which we are still in a state of learning and […]

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Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Local MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server

I recently wrote this article Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent which illustrates how to configure tools and an AI Agent to call those tools.  In that article there was no Model Context Protocol (MCP) capability utilized.  MCP provides the following benefits when compared to integrating custom tools directly from code. Dynamic tool discovery […]

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Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent

Before learning what I discovered while integrating tools into an AI Agent, I was a bit perplexed regarding how the LLM was able to determine which tool to use and even which tools are available for use.  Well, how it works is not a mystery, it is clearly described in the code.  In this post […]

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Free PDF download MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Data Engineer Study Guide: Exam DP-203

Benjamin Perkins, Azure Data Engineer, C#

If you want to get a free copy of the Index, Table of Contents and of Chapter 1, have a look here.  Click on the READ AN EXCERPT dropdown and then select the one you would like to review.  Figure 1 illustrates how that looks like. Figure 1, how to get a free PDF copy […]

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MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Data Engineer Study Guide: Exam DP-203

Benjamin Perkins, Azure Data Engineer, C#

I am proud to announce the publication of my newest book titled, “Microsoft Certified Associate Data Engineer Study Guide” for the DP-203 exam. The example data used in this book consists of my brainwaves. You can download the data and the source code for all the examples in the book on GitHub here . ADLS, […]

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