pamela fox's blog posts

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• Building a streaming DeepSeek-R1 app on Azure
• Evaluating gpt-4o-mini vs. gpt-3.5-turbo for RAG applications
• Safety evaluations for LLM-powered apps
• Running Azurite inside a Dev Container
• pgvector for Python developers
• RAG on a database table with PostgreSQL
• Doing RAG? Vector search is *not* enough
• Truncating conversation history for OpenAI chat completions
• Evaluating RAG chat apps: Can your app say "I don't know"?
• RAG techniques: Function calling for more structured retrieval
• RAG techniques: Cleaning user questions with an LLM
• Evaluating a RAG chat app: Approach, SDKs, and Tools
• Using FastAPI for an OpenAI chat backend
• Using llamafile for local dev for an OpenAI Python web app
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Go Keyless
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Streaming UI
• Best practices for OpenAI Chat apps: Concurrency
• Mocking async openai package calls with pytest
• Tips for debugging Flask deployments to Azure App Service
• Streaming ChatGPT with server-sent events in Flask
• Deploying to App Service free tier with Bicep
• Deploying PostgreSQL servers with Bicep
• Adding Microsoft Graph authentication as a Flask Blueprint
• Deploying a containerized FastAPI app to Azure Container Apps
• Hosting Python Web Apps on Azure: A Price-Off
• Writing a static maps API with FastAPI and Azure
• Tips for writing Bicep files for Azure deployment
• Tips for debugging Django deployments to Azure App Service
• FastAPI on Azure Functions with Azure API Management
• Deploying a Django app to Azure with the Azure Developer CLI
• Deploying a containerized Flask app to Azure Container Apps
• Returning an image from an Azure Function App in Python
• Preparing a Django app for deployment on Azure App Service