AI assistants are everywhere. Conversational AI has become mainstream. There is the good, but there is also the bad and the ugly. AI assistants are getting better, much better, as they start to rely on AI models that are improving at a fast rate, and a lot of effort is being put into making these assistants more reliable and consistent. They are amazing when they work, and that's most of the time, but then comes the occasional hallucination that spoils things. Depending on the context of the problem space, companies are figuring out ways to create guardrails to mitigate most of these problems....

Anyone today can go to one of the available AI assistants or chat bots and use natural language to try and get an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solution that fits their requirements. Anyone that has already tried this knows that you are more likely to get an invalid solution or one that has one or more "invented" pieces of information; things that don't really exist and are totally made up (even though they might seem at first blush to be authentic!)....

INSANE time savings using ENSEMBLE...

Creating a multilingual user interface for Azure Application offers (Managed Applications and Solution Template) is very challenging and can be super frustrating, requiring the maintenance of several versions of an offer -- one for each language. Even when it is done in a single offer, the updates can be very taxing and hard to maintain without inadvertently missing or breaking something in the UI. Maestro Studio Ensemble solves that problem with an easy, code-free/no-code, JSON-free feature called the Language Extension, a UI extension of the createUiDefinition low-code framework, that requires a few clicks and less than 3 minutes (as shown in the video in this article) to turn an offer's normal, static UI into a dynamic, multilingual UI. There is no limit on how many languages you can support....

This post presents the background of publishing Azure Applications to the Azure Marketplace, highlighting the areas causing publishers the most friction today, and presenting how Maestro Studio Ensemble helps Azure Marketplace publishers overcome those problems and become more productive when building Azure Applications (Solution Templates or Managed Applications)....