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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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- 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
- 4 minutes read - By John Aziz
How to Install and Configure Zsh with Oh My Zsh on Mac (Homebrew)
Step-by-step guide to installing Zsh and Oh My Zsh on macOS with Homebrew, plus my full .zshrc and .zprofile config: Pure prompt, autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, NVM, and aliases.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.