Cosmos Db is a multi-region scallable, globally-distributed database solution as part of Microsoft Azure Platform. With a button click, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), that no […]
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Azure Cosmos DB – Connection Policy – Setting Connection Mode and Connection Protocol
Recently I have been trying multiple ways to optimize CosmosDb SQL.NET SDK integration calls from my web application that sits within a VNET. After carefully analyzing different options available within Cosmos Db SQL API’s have realized there are different aspects we could optimize in achieving minimal turn around time. In this article I am going […]
Read more →[NPM Tip] Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain
As a developer, if you are behind a corporate proxy that assigns an intermediatory self signed SSL certificate to every request to provide secure content filtering as part of cybersecurity measures, I am sure you might have gone through the pain to get it working when working with NodeJS. if you have Admin access to […]
Read more →[NPM Tip] Rewriting the default protocol for GitHub package references
Some times as a Modern Web Developer you will face some “npm install” as some of the packages would be referring to git/ssh protocol to reference private packages from Git Hub. This would fail when you are behind a corporate proxy. Rewriting the default protocol for GitHub, run the following snippet in your command line […]
Read more →Blazer – The new experimental web framework from Microsoft
In this world of multiple Web frameworks Microsoft would not want to stop experimenting with new frameworks for Web development. Innovation is a key to Microsoft, doesn’t matter the start later than the React(Facebook) and Angular(Google) , but Microsoft has proven most of the times they are good in developing cutting edge frameworks. That’s how […]
Read more →LLM Testing Strategies: Building Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems
Introduction: LLM applications are notoriously hard to test. Outputs are non-deterministic, quality is subjective, and traditional unit testing doesn’t capture the nuances of language generation. Yet shipping untested LLM features is a recipe for embarrassing failures—hallucinations, off-brand responses, or security vulnerabilities. This guide covers practical testing strategies: deterministic unit tests for prompt templates, evaluation suites […]
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