5 Highlights Thursday | 18th April 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. Introduction to the Azure Developer CLI (AZD)

Join Liam Hampton (Senior Cloud Advocate) as he chats with Grace Kulin (Product Manager of Azure Developer CLI) and they delve into the innovative world of the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Discover what azd is, how it works and how it’s revolutionizing the way developers interact with Azure resources and deploying their projects to the cloud. Furthermore, gain a deeper understanding of how YOU can get involved and contribute to the azd community through project templates and more.

2. Focus on your app, not its infrastructure, with Radius Recipes

Radius Recipes allow developers to select and deploy the services they need, without needing to become experts in the underlying infrastructure and configuration. Instead of defining cloud services or Kubernetes resources, developers can leverage Radius Recipes to select the services and dependencies they need within their app, and let the Radius environment take care of the rest. Check out this video to learn how to create your own Recipes and deploy them today. Visit https://radapp.io to learn more about Radius.

3. Safeguard your containerized workloads using AKS backup

Steve Buchanan and Rajat Shrivastava join Scott Hanselman to explore the functionality of Azure Kubernetes Service backup in safeguarding containerized apps and their data. Learn the importance of backing up your containers, even when they are mostly stateless. See why safeguarding containers is crucial and provides insights into the workings of AKS backup in ensuring the protection of workloads running on AKS.

4. What's New in the Reliable Web App Pattern for .NET

The latest update to the Reliable Web App Pattern is an essential guidance for developers aiming to utilize Azure for re-platforming .NET web applications.

5.Optimize Azure OpenAI Applications with Semantic Caching

What is Semantic Caching? The article highlights the advantages of semantic caching, such as improved response times and reduced computational load for Large Language Models (LLMs). ??: It outlines the essential elements of a semantic caching layer, including LLM Wrappers, Embeddings Generation, Vector Store, Cache Store, and Similarity Evaluation.

You can complement this edition of 5 Highlights Thursday with our MEA Developer Channel on YouTube where we have weekly interviews and learning material on Microsoft Azure, and much more.

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Have a wonderful Thursday :)

Taswar