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After AZ-104 and AZ-305: Infrastructure as Code Study Guide for Azure Engineers
After passing AZ-104 or AZ-305, the next practical step is learning Azure Infrastructure as Code. This guide explains the modern Azure ...
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Azure AI-103 Exam Study Guide: Developing AI Apps and Agents on Azure
Prepare for Microsoft AI-103 with this 2026 Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer study guide. It maps the official Microsoft Learn exam s...
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Azure AI POC: Designing an Internal Engineering Assistant with Azure AI Search, RAG, and Azure DevOps
Designing the workflow behind my Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI POC: a controlled internal engineering assistant using Azure AI Search,...
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Building a Lightweight Joomla IP Restriction Plugin with AI Assistance
A practical walkthrough showing how AI helped design, review, harden, and deploy a lightweight Joomla system plugin for blocking select...
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Least-Privilege RBAC to an Azure AI Foundry AI-103 POC with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Adding a dedicated RBAC layer to my Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI-103 infrastructure POC using Bicep, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Entra gr...
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Automating Microsoft Foundry Project and Model Deployment with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Automating a Microsoft Foundry resource, Foundry project, model deployment, endpoint output, and basic pipeline smoke test for my Azure...
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Building a Production-Like Azure AI Platform POC with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Building a practical Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI platform foundation with Bicep, Azure DevOps, tokenised parameter files, validation...
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