Advanced .NET topics — performance, internals, and modern patterns.
I earned Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (exam AI-900) in February 2024. Here's what the credential actually certifies — AI workloads and responsible AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP and generative AI — and why a foundations credential matters when you build AI features for regulated customers.
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Ignite 2023 in Seattle was where Microsoft declared itself 'the Copilot company,' rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot, shipped Copilot Studio and Microsoft Fabric GA — and quietly revealed Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100, its first custom datacentre chips. We were in the room, and the silicon story is the one that still matters.
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Build 2023 was the AI inflection — Windows Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Studio, a shared plugin standard with OpenAI, and the Copilot stack. Three days in Seattle when 'add an AI feature' quietly turned into 'build a copilot.' Our notes from the room.
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Ignite 2022 ran the whole show under one slogan — 'do more with less with the Microsoft Cloud.' Entra became a real identity family, Defender for DevOps and CSPM previewed, Teams Premium and Syntex landed, and Microsoft slipped DALL·E 2 into Azure and a new Designer app — three weeks before ChatGPT changed everything.
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AZ-400 earned me Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert in July 2022 — my only expert-level Microsoft cert, built on the Azure Developer Associate I'd earned in January 2021. It's less about CI/CD scripts than about people, process, and the discipline of shipping value continuously.
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