About us
👁️ BIG NEWS - Starting in 2025 we are Boston Azure AI 🤖 + ☁️
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We have been meeting since October 2009. 🔄 From 2009-2024 we were Boston Azure, but to acknowledge our commitment to delivering AI content we have renamed the group to Boston Azure AI starting in 2025.
🙌 Boston Azure AI is run by volunteers passionate about sharing knowledge and fostering community learning. 💡 Our goal is to help those interested learn more about AI & Azure technologies. 🧠
🤝 We expect all participants to honor our Code of Conduct to create a welcoming environment for everyone.
🎤 Interested in speaking at Boston Azure AI? Reach out to us!
👉 New to public speaking? We’ll help you succeed!
The Boston Azure AI leadership team is:
- Jason Haley - @haleyjason
- Veronika Kolesnikova - @veronika_dev1
- Bill Wilder - @codingoutloud
Featured event
Henk and Dona doing AI
!!! Registration link: https://globalai.community/e/hkamkvke
Boston Azure AI is excited to welcome Henk Boelman and Dona Sarkar for a special in-person evening of AI learning, builder stories, and community conversation. Henk and Dona will share practical insights from the front lines of Microsoft AI innovation, with a likely focus on topics like agents, GitHub, and Microsoft Foundry, plus the real-world patterns that help developers go from experimentation to impact.
More details coming soon! Stay tuned!!!!
Upcoming events
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(Virtual) Observability Deep Dive
·OnlineOnlineJoin Boston Azure AI for this virtual session featuring Monika Mundra (blog, LinkedIn).
TALK DESCRIPTION
Observability Deep Dive: Correlating logs across Azure Monitor, App Insights and distributed services.
- Understand the Observability Gap: Modern distributed applications are difficult to troubleshoot because logs, metrics, and traces are often siloed, lack a common correlation key, and may lose critical context through sampling.
- Build a Unified Observability Platform: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics work together to collect and correlate telemetry from applications, infrastructure, containers, Azure services, and hybrid environments.
- Leverage Correlation and Distributed Tracing: Use `operation_Id`, W3C `traceparent`, and OpenTelemetry to track requests end-to-end across microservices, databases, APIs, and downstream dependencies.
- Accelerate Root Cause Analysis with KQL: Cross-workspace KQL queries enable teams to correlate requests, dependencies, exceptions, and infrastructure logs, making it easier to identify production issues and performance bottlenecks.
- Adopt Production-Ready Practices: Standardize correlation IDs, use structured logging, implement intelligent alerting, and embrace OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation to reduce noise, improve visibility, and lower incident resolution time.
Key Takeaway: Treat Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics as a single observability ecosystem. Correlated telemetry combined with OpenTelemetry and KQL provides the visibility needed to troubleshoot complex distributed systems at scale.
AGENDA
- 5:55 pm - Virtual doors open (you can join the online meeting)
- 6:00 pm - Let's go! (welcome and main presentation)
- ~7:00 pm - Wrap up and questions
21 attendeesHenk and Dona doing AI
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, US!!! Registration link: https://globalai.community/e/hkamkvke
Boston Azure AI is excited to welcome Henk Boelman and Dona Sarkar for a special in-person evening of AI learning, builder stories, and community conversation. Henk and Dona will share practical insights from the front lines of Microsoft AI innovation, with a likely focus on topics like agents, GitHub, and Microsoft Foundry, plus the real-world patterns that help developers go from experimentation to impact.
More details coming soon! Stay tuned!!!!
4 attendees
Past events
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