Microsoft Fabric REST API is a tool, that can help you automate tasks in Fabric. By saying automate, I mean you can use it to automatically manage Fabric items, run notebooks, setup workspaces etc. The full API documentation can be found from this URL. Getting Started with Fabric APIs To use the Fabric API, you need a Microsoft Entra authentication token, as Fabric does not support API keys or … The post Microsoft Fabric REST API appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Microsoft has published many Copilots within a year. We have Copilots for Azure, Security, Finance, Word, Outlook, etc. Almost all of these different Copilots are integrated into the corresponding tool. You can find Azure Copilot in the Azure Portal, Copilot for Finance in Excel and so on. The number of Copilots won’t decrease in the near future; rather, the opposite. I predict that the number of Copilots will keep growing. … The post Unpacking AI and Copilot Studios appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

I have been using Apple Watch to monitor my exercises, especially floorball exercises. While I love the Apple Watch product quality, ease of use and feel around my wrist it sadly lacks good statistic tools for exercise data. For example I tried to view the amount of training days within season 23-24 and I couldn’t find any way to do it. From that I got an idea to upload the … The post Import Exercise Data from Apple Watch into Microsoft Fabric appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Sometimes you want to develop or experiment with LLM APIs without having to submit your data to Azure Open AI or any other LLM service. Instead, you simply want to run a basic LLM AI locally to test whether your idea works. Jussi has authored some informative blog posts about Ollama, which indeed is a great tool for this situation, but it might not be the best… LM Studio… The post Develop LLM Solutions In Local Environment appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Yes, you read that right! Visual Studio is recreating its solution files, which have remained unchanged throughout my 15 years in this industry and I think this is great and anticipated improvement. What is a solution file? That is a great question. A Visual Studio solution file (.sln extension) is a important part of the Visual Studio development environment. It serves as a container for one or more projects … The post New Visual Studio Solution File Format appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Microsoft provides a handy RSS feed for its Azure updates at https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/en-us/updates/feed/. This feed includes all updates related to services arriving with Preview and General Available status. As this is great information for everyone who is interested from Azure, I wanted to make this feed’s information available to everyone on our Slack (our companies main communication channel). Slack offers built-in RSS readers, but I thought of implementing a reader … The post How to receive Azure Updates directly into your Slack appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Last week, I was promoted to the position of CTO at Adafy. Partially due to this promotion, I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the significance of the architect role and the career path to becoming one. The prevalent notion suggests that the career trajectory for a software developer is Software Developer =Senior Software Developer =Software Architect. However, there’s a slight contradiction in this, as the … The post Software Architect appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Azure AI Language Service is a service hosted on the cloud, offering capabilities in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to comprehend and dissect text. It supports summarization, entity linking, key phrase extraction, and many other features. It shares many features with OpenAI, albeit in a much simpler form. In this post, I’m going to build an Azure Function that wraps the Azure AI Language Service into a nice and simple API. … The post Azure AI Language Service appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel is currently a focal point in the Microsoft AI landscape. The Semantic Kernel (referred to as SK) serves as an SDK enabling the development of applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). SK facilitates seamless integration of OpenAI or Azure OpenAI into applications, empowering developers to construct AI pipelines capable of executing multiple LLM calls, triggering actions, and executing custom code based on LLM responses. However, the reality … The post Semantic Kernel appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more

Microsoft has provided tools to develop Teams Bot for a long time. I think the first tools were released around 2016(?). The first toolset included quite a bit of manual labor to get things done and working, but as of 2024 things have changed quite a bit. Now you can build, test, deploy and publish bots directly from Visual Studio (or code if you run into authentication troubles like I … The post Develop Teams Bot with Visual Studio appeared first on Panu Oksala ..read more