Peter Marcu

@craigktreasure @ErikEJ Azure.AI.OpenAI will be built on top as will Semantic Kernel. You would use this one if you want to do dive down a layer and control more of the interactions with the service than the higher level abstractions provide.

@ErikEJ When would I use this vs SemanticKernel or Azure.AI.OpenAI?

dotNET blog: Announcing the official OpenAI library for .NET ift.tt/WOKTdQR

Some great examples of how to create intelligent apps on Azure in many different languages. Python, JS, Java, and .NET. aka.ms/azai

Nice video on how two of my favorite projects (.NET and Azd) work together to help you create cloud apps using .NET and deploy them to Azure easily. youtu.be/HYe6y1kBuGI?si…

@rogiervdhee @davidfowl No, this is the same set of updates that have been out for a few years for most services.

@davidfowl Oh no, they changed it again?!

The new .NET Azure SDK APIs are very nice. Big improvements over the initial versions. It also integrates nicely with ASP.NET Core applications! #dotnet #azure

@DylanMorley @davidfowl Wow, that's awesome! Keeping people up to date that created things based on templates is an age old problem. Very cool that you were able to get most things into versioned packages that can be updated like that.

@PeterMarcu @davidfowl As backstage is creating the repos, we add some labels to the repo at that point to say "created by template x". When there's new features in template x, we find all the repos and push out a PR, which we've mainly boiled down to some package version bumps, so simple for team

I’m a very “start from first principles kinda person” vs “start with a template” kinda person

@DylanMorley @davidfowl Thanks, I was specifically curious how you declare the Azure infrastructure resourxes you need. Sounds like the Backstage template assumes the AKS cluster already exists. You provision the cluster with Bicep initially? If you need any other Azure Resources is it Bicep/Terraform?

@PeterMarcu @davidfowl What we created in Backstage - assumes you've provisioned a cluster already + we optimise for that. Not offering choices for the template simplified our approach. We've published an image to acr so other options wouldn't be hard to achieve. Bicep/Ansible/Terraform are our tools

@DylanMorley @davidfowl Also curious here what you ended up with for tracking? Are you looking at the deployments, resourcegroups, tags?

@davidfowl Super impressed with everyone who's worked on this - in a microservices world this takes the toil out of new APIs. We've also created an updater process to identify everything created in this way, allowing us to push out automated PR's to repos and update any templated features.

@DylanMorley @davidfowl Cool, what are you using to provision the Azure resources?

@davidfowl We just templated up a dotnet new API using Backstage as a wizard. At the end, it'll create you a git repo, new API with all NFRs applied, pipelines to build and create a docker image + pipelines to helm deploy to AKS. From nothing to running in AKS with CDN routing - 30 mins.

This is where the #kraken hopefully knock the Avalance out of the playoffs tonight!

@mmjuraszek Just that it was more entries than TurboTax wanted to import so I had to summarize.

@PeterMarcu wow, did they say why? Is there something special about your filing?

Hmm, the IRS is requiring that I physically print out hundreds of pages of documents that I have in electronic form and physically ship them to them after I E-Filed. Feels like quite a waste of time, money, and paper :(

@davidfowl What I want it to do for me right now is my taxes!

Finally watching this "The Future of Work With AI" youtube.com/watch?v=Bf-dbS… My mind is blown

I ❤️ single file executable tools! That's all 😁

@ScareAll I cant hear your picture... how'd it go? :)

So I sang some punk rock this weekend...

@davkean I think you can choose a default and use it without even choosing a card?

Google Pay changed to Google Wallet and now I no longer have the ability to pin a particular card to my home screen?

@davidfowl @cschleiden @rakyll @mandywhaley Would love to hear more. We're actively working on Go as we speak.

@cschleiden @rakyll Which ones are in a sad state? cc @PeterMarcu @mandywhaley

Wished AWS/Azure had a mandate to officially support #golang in every GA’ed product. This was our motivation almost 8-9 years ago at Google and it paid off well.

@RobinHultman @AzureSDK Hi @RobinHultman, that would be a good topic for us to get into a blog post. The short answer is that we have many release pipelines for the different parts of the repo. I'll see if I can get someone to write up the details :)

@1108King @savostrowski @Azure Happy to have contributors. Project is at github.com/azure/azure-dev

@savostrowski @Azure Any place you are looking for contribution? I saw the devcontainer issue can work on it 😁

@evntdrvn @i_no_see_pound @jamesdrandall @isaac_abraham @prepac @sforkmann @AHudaygulov Thanks for all the feedback!

@i_no_see_pound @jamesdrandall @isaac_abraham @prepac @sforkmann @AHudaygulov @PeterMarcu to be frank, it’s a mess. Feels like it needs something parallel to the Azure SDK team, to be quality gatekeepers of the stuff written by the teams before it gets released. Or maybe getting rid of dedicated QA wasn’t actually the best idea lol

As an Azure Developer which way do you prefer to manage the infrastructure for your application? (If other, reply with the other option you prefer) #Azure

@IAmScottTasker @isaac_abraham Interesting. Curious, if prototyping and tweaking was easier with infra as code, would you prefer that?

@PeterMarcu @isaac_abraham Mix of ARM templates, azure cli and portal. Why? Prototype with Portal, tweak with cli, and finally productionify(?) with ARM templates. Templates suck though, too many API changes, useless exports that often don’t work, and annoying to build. Still, worth it to deploy them