Microsoft Reactor Redmond

A walkthrough of GitHub Skills Exercises

GitHub Skills offers issue-based, self-paced, and free learning within the GitHub platform, focusing on practical application in under 60 minutes for features like Repository management, Copilot, and security.

Come take a journey with me as we walkthrough a couple of GitHub Skills exercises from beginner to intermediate. In the intermediate GitHub Skills exercise we will highlight our new GitHub Copilot feature coding agent.

Join the JS AI Build-a-thon to embark on unique developer quests designed for JavaScript and TypeScript developers. You'll build AI applications on Azure AI Foundry and deepen your understanding of AI technologies, tools, and frameworks.

**Who this is for:** Developers transitioning to AI Engineers
**What you'll learn:** Seamlessly integrate AI capabilities into web applications. The build-a-thon will guide you from having no experience with AI to building local AI prototypes and eventually deploying and extending AI applications on Azure.

**What you'll do:**
- Build Local AI Prototypes with **GitHub Models & AI Toolkit Extension** (No azure account needed)
- Migrate Prototype to Azure **(GitHub Models → Azure AI Foundry)**
- Deploy Models and Use in Code with the **Azure AI Foundry Extension**
- Connect to external data with RAG, add conversation history with **LangChain.js**
- Build an AI Agent with **Azure AI Foundry Extension**

You’ve just launched the first version of your AI application and gained your first users. If you’re at this stage, congratulations! You’ve hit initial traction, but new challenges are just around the corner. AI apps need to handle data securely and efficiently to serve even more customers. This talk introduces a simple and powerful solution: using a “database-per-tenant” model for vector-based AI apps. We’ll showcase a real-world example of this architecture in action. You’ll see a full-stack Azure AI Chat app built with Neon serverless Postgres, Azure OpenAI, NextJS, Typescript, Azure Document Intelligence.

In this session we will cover the benefits of a migration to Cosmos DB, migration paths, common pain points and best practices. We will share our firsthand experiences and customer stories. Adiom is the trusted partner for migration solutions that enable seamless online database migrations from MongoDB to Cosmos DB vCore, and DynamoDB to Cosmos DB for NoSQL.