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Introduction When interacting with a large language model (LLM), its knowledge comes from data used during its training, which is often mostly from public sources. As a result, the model’s knowledge may not fully reflect the most current information. This leads to three main issues: outdated information, no access to internal company data, and potential […]

Traces capture requests through services and components, and are essential for understanding application workflows. They are key for pinpointing bottlenecks and identifying hotspots. Particularly vital in microservices, traces reveal the interplay in modern applications, aiding developers and operators in visualizing request paths for effective issue diagnosis. In the first post of this series, we instrumented […]

Introduction In the ever developing landscape of modern software development, observability has emerged as a crucial aspect of building and maintaining robust applications. OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, provides a vendor-neutral set of APIs, libraries, and tools for generating and managing telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces. One of the powerful […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services incredibly easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline for an ASP.NET Core application, using Azure DevOps, Amazon Simple […]

Introduction Amazon Bedrock is a fully-managed serverless service which provides high-performing Foundation Models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, and Stability AI. Amazon Bedrock offers developers the flexibility to select the most suitable Generative AI model based on their specific requirements. You can build generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to Elastic Beanstalk directly from GitHub using GitHub Actions. With just a […]

Recent developments in generative Artificial Intelligence (generative AI) have made it easier and affordable to create applications and experiences that improve the way we live and work. Generative AI is helping businesses improve customer experiences through assistants and conversational analytics and boost employee productivity through automated generation of content, reports, and code. In this blog […]

This post was co-authored by Alok Bhatnagar, Technical Account Manager, AWS, and Tomáš Herceg, founder of DotVVM, an open-source framework that simplifies creating line-of-business web applications for .NET developers.  Since the genesis of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET Web Forms has been a popular choice for building websites. Even to this day, there are thousands of […]

Introduction Production deployments can be complicated. You want to avoid disruption to your users and minimize downtime, but you also need to consider cost, time, risk, and how to recover from a failed deployment. You can balance the trade-offs between these considerations by choosing a deployment strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a managed AWS compute […]

Introduction gRPC is a high-performance, cross-platform Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that allows for efficient communication between microservices. It was developed by Google and is now open-source. gRPC efficiently connects services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. For more information on gRPC, read the gRPC […]