5 Highlights Thursday | 11th July 2024

This week dose of 5 Highlights Thursday is ready for you to consume, a list of information and links that you may find helpful in your Azure journey. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy such sharing.

1. Deploying to Azure Container Apps to power your LLMs

Anthony showed us how to run LLM generated Python code safely and securely in a demo, and the pitfalls you run into if you're not careful. This impressive presentation given live at PyCon US 2024 shared the latest and greatest with Azure OpenAI, LangChain in Streamlit app.

2. Secure your AI applications from code to runtime | Defender for Cloud

Shiran Horev joins Yuri Diogenes to talk about how Defender for Cloud can be used to secure your AI applications from code to runtime. Shiran talks about common attacks against Gen AI, the important of AI security posture management and how Defender for Cloud is playing a role to enhance AI security with better security posture and thread protection. Shiran also demonstrates how to Defender for Cloud to gain visibility of Gen AI apps and how threats are discovered.

3. Speedrunning the cloud with the Azure SDK and Developer CLI

Join us with Rohit, who covered the Azure Python SDK, the idiomatic collection of libraries that will greatly simplify provisioning, managing and using Azure resources from Python application code live from PyCon US 2024.

4. RAG using Semantic Kernel with Azure OpenAI and Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Learn about the new capabilities of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Semantic Kernel that enable you to use vector search and integrate your AI-based movie recommendation applications.

5. C# 13: Explore the latest preview features

Are you a programming language junkie and want to learn more about C# 13 preview features then read the blog post by Katleen Dollard below, which has details features that focus on flexibility, performance, and making your favorite features even better for everyday use in C# 13.

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Have a wonderful Thursday :)

Taswar