by Sujit D'Mello
October 28, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
October 4, 2024
The team meets up with Vaclav Jirovsky and Cody Hosterman from Pure Storage to learn about Pure's CBS solution and why Azure customers should consider using it.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode506.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/wCbd5vdcBPQ
Resources:
Other updates:
https://powerplatformconf.com/
by Russell Young
September 13, 2024
Willie Ahlers, Principal Architect, joins Cale, Cynthia and Russell to discuss the challenges and processes to get value from AI projects and make them successful in a live environment.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode505.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1GsuH-YylP0
Other updates:
by Evan Basalik
September 4, 2024
Sadaf Khan joins Evan and Russell to explain and talk about Service Reliability Engineering in the Azure engineering group.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode504.mp3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNGdTnb1W90&t=1684s
Key Topics:
- Azure Reliability SRE: Evan introduced the episode's focus on Azure reliability SRE and mentioned a special guest, Sadaf, who would provide insights on the topic. 0:19
- Azure Storage Public Preview Feature: Russell discussed a new public preview feature for Azure storage that allows customers to manage planned failovers, enhancing the service's reliability. 1:10
- Virtual Machine Scale Set Update: Russell highlighted an update to virtual machine scale sets that allows mixing different instances, improving flexibility and scalability. 1:38
- Azure API Management Workspace: Russell introduced a new feature in Azure API management that enables teams to have more autonomy in managing and publishing APIs. 2:08
- NetApp Files Storage Update: Russell mentioned the general availability of cool access for NetApp files storage, allowing for more cost-effective data storage based on access patterns. 2:40
- Redis Cache Update: Russell discussed a new tier for Redis Cache that supports larger enterprises with increased memory and compute capabilities. 3:02
- Azure Red Hat Openshift Update: Russell shared an update on Azure Red Hat Openshift, which now supports up to 250 nodes, significantly increasing scalability. 3:29
- SRE Role and Impact: Sadaf explained the role of SRE in improving service reliability and quality, detailing their engagement model with various Azure services. 4:52
- SRE Engagement and Resistance: Sadaf shared insights on the initial resistance faced from service teams during SRE engagements and how trust is built over time to allow for more impactful changes. 7:49
- SRE's Approach to Service Improvement: Sadaf outlined the SRE team's structured approach to service improvement, focusing on fundamentals, service health, operational efficiency, and scalability. 10:51
- AI Initiatives in SRE: Sadaf discussed the SRE team's initiatives in leveraging AI to analyze incident data and generate insights, aiming to reduce the cognitive load on engineers. 30:27
by Sujit D'Mello
August 21, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
August 15, 2024
Azure Open AI is widely used in industry but there are number of security aspects that must be taken into account when using the technology. Luckily for us, Audrey Long, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, security expert and renowned conference speaker, gives us insights into securing LLMs and provides various tips, tricks and tools to help developers use these models safely in their applications.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode502.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/64Achcz97PI
Resources:
AI Tooling:
- Azure AI Tooling
- to detect and block prompt injection attacks, including a new model for identifying indirect prompt attacks before they impact your model, coming soon and now available in preview in Azure AI Content Safety.
- to detect “hallucinations” in model outputs, coming soon.
- to steer your model’s behavior toward safe, responsible outputs, coming soon.
- to assess an application’s vulnerability to jailbreak attacks and to generating content risks, now available in preview.
- to understand what model inputs, outputs, and end users are triggering content filters to inform mitigations, coming soon, and now available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service.
- AI Defender for Cloud
- AI Security Posture Management
- AI Workloads
- AI Red Teaming Tool
AI Development Considerations:
- AI Assessment from Microsoft
- Microsoft Responsible AI Processes
- Define Use Case and Model Architecture
- Content Filtering System
- Azure OpenAI Service includes a content filtering system that works alongside core models, including DALL-E image generation models.
- Additional classifiers are available for detecting jailbreak risks and known content for text and code.
- Red Teaming the LLM
- Create a Threat Model with OWASP Top 10
Other updates:
by Sujit D'Mello
August 1, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
July 20, 2024
The team catches up with Daniel Taylor and Bradley Ball of the Azure Fast Track team and learns about how Database Watcher can help customers better manage and debug their Azure SQL, Elastic Pools, SQL Managed Instances, and Hyperscale and the replicas.
Daniel and Bradley also share the really cool work they are doing helping Azure customers learn about Azure with their Tales from the Field YouTube channel, plus we hear about some upcoming events where you can see Daniel and Bradley in person!!!
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode500.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z_jBWLUBY9g
Resources:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database-watcher-overview?view=azuresql
https://youtu.be/qr1Qxwao68M?si=mO24KZF3PAvTnnmn
Other updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Guest-OS-Family-Retirement
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/cmk-for-backup-vaults-ga/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Elastic-SAN-Feature-Updates
Azure classic resource providers will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
by Sujit D'Mello
July 12, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
June 28, 2024