April 2026
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
10h 16m
English
Content preview from Generative AI on Microsoft Azure
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Preface
Generative AI (GenAI) is evolving at a pace few technologies have ever matched. What began as fascination with increasingly powerful models has quickly matured into something far more complex and consequential: platforms, architectures, governance frameworks, and production systems that reshape how modern software is designed and operated.
This book is written from the field, by three practitioners and friends who live this transformation every day. Each of us brings a distinct perspective shaped by hands-on work with enterprise customers, startups, and global engineering communities. Together, our voices reflect different angles of the same reality: GenAI is no longer an experiment, and Microsoft Azure is changing the way companies implement enterprise-grade solutions.
Adrián: Crossing the Generative AI Chasm
Here we are. A few years after the initial boom of GenAI technologies, and not so long ago from my previous book, Azure OpenAI Service for Cloud Native Applications, I’m sitting down again to write another book. And trust me, it is not to repeat topics that may look quite similar. While that book covered Azure OpenAI Service as a specific type of GenAI model, this new work explores the broader evolution of GenAI into comprehensive platforms and scalable deployments. What started as a model-centric area of innovations (because everyone used to focus on the models), with the Azure OpenAI Service being a pioneer of enterprise-grade AI models, has truly evolved into ...
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