Jul 25, 2026 - 5 minutes read - By 
John Aziz
Using ClientPool to make CacheLib memcached Backend Thread-Safe
How ClientPool, partial, and nullcontext come together to make CacheLib's memcached backend thread-safe.
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Welcome to my blog! Here you'll find posts on AI, cloud, software engineering, and community stories.
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Apr 27, 2026 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Build AI RAG Apps with LangChain, Azure DocumentDB and Microsoft Foundry: Step-by-Step Guide
Build AI Powered RAG Application using LangChain, Microsoft Foundry Azure OpenAI, and Azure DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) - Step-by-Step Guide
Apr 06, 2026 - 4 minutes read - By John Aziz
My Terminal Setup with Zsh and Oh My Zsh
An overview of my terminal configuration using Zsh and Oh My Zsh, including plugins and aliases that enhance my development workflow on macOS.
Apr 05, 2026 - 3 minutes read - By John Aziz
My Mac Development Setup with Homebrew
A complete Brewfile of the packages, casks, and VS Code extensions I use for development on Mac.
Apr 05, 2026 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Helpful Mac Finder Customizations
Terminal commands to customize Mac Finder for development, including showing the Library folder, hidden files, path bar, and status bar.
Jul 22, 2024 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Why? and How to Ground Large Language Models using your Data? (RAG)
An explanation of why and how to ground Large Language Models using your data with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
Apr 03, 2024 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Create a Large Language Model Deployment
A Microsoft Learn training module providing a step-by-step guide on provisioning Azure OpenAI resources, creating LLM deployments, and experimenting with prompts.
Apr 03, 2024 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Introduction to Large Language Models
A Microsoft Learn training module on understanding large language models, their capabilities, core concepts like prompts, tokens, and completions.
Mar 13, 2024 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Build RAG Chat App using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Azure OpenAI
A guide to building a RAG Chat Application using Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore and Azure OpenAI.
Dec 28, 2023 - 1 minute read - By John Aziz
Migrating a Full Stack MySQL Web App from Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure
A guide to migrating a full stack MySQL web application from Google Cloud Platform to Microsoft Azure.