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☕🎤 In this episode of Sip and Sync, we dive deep into the essential ingredients for building and scaling AI-powered applications on Azure. Whether you’re starting from scratch or enhancing an existing app with AI capabilities, this session walks you through the full lifecycle—from data infrastructure to model orchestration, deployment, and developer productivity.
We explore how to choose the right database, leverage Azure AI Foundry for model selection and agent orchestration, and optimize your development workflow using tools like VS Code, GitHub Copilot, and Azure Functions. If you’re looking to demystify the Azure AI ecosystem and accelerate your AI app development, this one’s for you.
Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome to Sip and Sync
00:11 – The big question: How to build and scale AI apps
00:50 – Key ingredients for AI application development
01:54 – Choosing the right database: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
03:40 – Connecting data to AI models
04:18 – Defining your problem and selecting models
04:44 – Azure AI Foundry: Model selection and agent orchestration
05:52 – Infrastructure choices for running AI apps
07:11 – Integration with external systems via APIs
07:56 – Developer productivity and AI-assisted coding
08:19 – AI-enhanced software development lifecycle
09:00 – Tools for coding, building, and deploying AI apps
10:10 – Final thoughts and key takeaways
What You’ll Learn:
How to architect AI applications using Azure services
The role of Azure AI Foundry in model and agent orchestration
Best practices for integrating, deploying, and scaling AI apps
Developer tools that boost productivity in AI development
How to choose between SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS for your data needs
📂 Links & Resources:
🚀 Azure AI Foundry Overview https://azure.microsoft.com/products/ai-foundry
📝 Azure Functions Documentation https://azure.microsoft.com/products/functions
📝 GitHub Copilot for VS Code https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/overview
📝 Azure Container Apps https://azure.microsoft.com/products/container-apps
📝 Azure Developer Tools https://azure.microsoft.com/products/category/developer-tools
👥 Speakers:
[Priyanka Vergadia – Sr. Director, Global Developer Engagement
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvergadia
X (Twitter): https://x.com/pvergadia
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