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Free AI Tools at Work in 2026: Practical Uses, Risks and Safe Adoption
Free AI tools are now part of everyday work. This practical 2026 guide explains where AI helps, where it creat...
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From Azure AI POC to Production-Ready RAG
Azure AI proof of concepts are easy to demo and difficult to productionise. This post explains the practical p...
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Azure AI POC: Designing an Internal Engineering Assistant with Azure AI Search, RAG, and Azure DevOps
Designing the workflow behind my Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI POC: a controlled internal engineering assista...
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Building a Lightweight Joomla IP Restriction Plugin with AI Assistance
A practical walkthrough showing how AI helped design, review, harden, and deploy a lightweight Joomla system p...
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Least-Privilege RBAC to an Azure AI Foundry AI-103 POC with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Adding a dedicated RBAC layer to my Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI-103 infrastructure POC using Bicep, Azure...
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Automating Microsoft Foundry Project and Model Deployment with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Automating a Microsoft Foundry resource, Foundry project, model deployment, endpoint output, and basic pipel...
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Building a Production-Like Azure AI Platform POC with Bicep and Azure DevOps
Building a practical Microsoft Foundry and Azure AI platform foundation with Bicep, Azure DevOps, tokenised pa...
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Grok AIOps Solution
Grokstream Grok AIOps: A Practical Look at AI-Driven IT Operations
Updated: May 2026Original publication date...
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GPT-4: Game Changer or Just Another Step in AI Evolution?
GPT-4: Game Changer or Just Another Step in AI Evolution?
Updated: May 2026Original publication date: Novembe...
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I’m Maxim Sokolov, the person behind SokolovTech. This blog is where I share practical Azure, DevOps, infrastructure automation, security, monitoring and AI platform notes from real builds, fixes and experiments.
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