Demystifying Azure AI

Explore artificial intelligence offerings by Microsoft Azure, along with its other services. This book will help you implement AI features in various Azure services to help build your organization and customers.

The book starts by introducing you to the Azure Cognitive Search service to create and use an application. You then will learn the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database. This is an important feature you can use to enable Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries. Next, you will go through AI services with Azure Integration Platform service and Azure Logic Apps to build a modern intelligent workflow in your application. Azure functions are discussed as a part of its server-less feature. The book concludes by teaching you how to work with Power Automate to analyze your business workflow.

After reading this book, you will be able to understand and work with different Azure Cognitive Services in AI.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Get started with Azure Cognitive Search service
* Use AI services with Low Code – Power Automate
* Use AI services with Azure Integration services
* Use AI services with Azure Server-less offerings
* Use automatic tuning in Azure SQL database

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Aspiring Azure and AI professionals

KASAM SHAIKH, Cloud advocate, is a seasoned professional having 13 years of demonstrated industry experience working as Cloud Architect with one of the leading IT companies in Mumbai, INDIA. He is recognized as MVP by an online Tech community, also a Global AzureAI Speaker, and author of two best-selling books on Microsoft Azure and AI. He is the founder of Azure INDIA (az-INDIA) community, DearAzure, which is an online community for learning AzureAI. He owns a YouTube channel and shares his experience over his website www.kasamshaikh.com

CHAPTER 1: AZURE SEARCH WITH AI

CHAPTER GOALS: In this chapter reader will learn about the only AI powered Cloud search offering by Microsoft, Azure Cognitive Search service. Using Cognitive Services with Azure Search with your web apps. Skip hiring search experts who know what an inverted index is. Don't worry about distributed systems expertise to scale your service to handle large amount of data. And forget about setting up, owning and managing the infrastructure. Let Azure Search do it all for you. When and How to use with step by step Demo creating an application.

CHAPTER 2: AI AND BACKEND SERVICE OFFERING

CHAPTER GOALS: In this Chapter reader will learn the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database. Automatic tuning is a fully managed intelligent performance service that uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitor queries executed on a database, and it automatically improves their performance. Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database might be one of the most important features that one can enable on Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries.

CHAPTER 3: AI SERVICES WITH AZURE IPAAS

CHAPTER GOALS: In this Chapter, readers will explore the Azure Cognitive services, that can be leverage with Azure Integration Platform service, Azure Logic Apps. This gives developer a power to infuse an intelligent workflow in application. Will have a step by step demo to create a workflow with business use-case.

CHAPTER 4: AI SERVICES WITH SERVERLESS OFFERING

CHAPTER GOALS: In this Chapter, readers will explore the Azure Cognitive services offerings, that can be leverage with Azure Serverless Offerings, Azure Functions. This gives developer a power to extend the scalable Functions with a smart and intelligent functional implementation in application. Will have a step by step demo on how to work with Cognitive extensions.

CHAPTER 5: AI WITH NO CODE

CHAPTER GOALS: In this Chapter, readers will explore the Azure Cognitive services offerings, that can be leverage with No Code – PowerAutomate. This gives business an easy hand to present with a smart analysis in business workflow. Will have a step by step demo to create a workflow.