Azure Daily News for Friday, Jan 31 2025

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  • Running DeepSeek on AKS with Ollama
    Introduction This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to run DeepSeek on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The setup utilizes an ND-H100-v5 VM to accommodate the 4-bit quantized 671-billion parameter model on a single node. Prerequisites Before proceeding, ensure you have an AKS cluster with a node pool containing at least one ND-H100-v5 instance. Additionally, make sure the NVIDIA...
    Source: Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog
  • Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025
    In this issue: A new approach to multimodal pretraining for remote sensing; Managed-retention memory for the AI era; Improving detection of macular telangiectasia type 2; Generalizing symbolic automata. The post Research Focus: Week of January 27, 2025 appeared first on Microsoft Research.
    Source: Microsoft Research Blog
  • Building a TOTP Authenticator App on Azure Functions and Azure Key Vault
    Two-factor authentication (2FA) has become a cornerstone of modern digital security, serving as a crucial defense against unauthorized access and account compromises. While many organizations rely on popular authenticator apps like Microsoft Authenticator, there's significant value in understanding how to build and customize your own TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) solution. This becomes...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • SecretLess App Registrations in Entra ID
    Identity is an area that has gotten a lot of attention the past few years and is now essential for every developer to have at least a basic level of understanding of. (We can probably debate what constitutes basic - not everyone has to be able to implement an authentication library from scratch, but everyone should have an idea of things to think about when adding a sign-in button to their...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog

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Azure Daily News for Friday, Jan 31 2025