Building Azure AI Solutions: From OpenAI Service to Full-Stack Intelligent Applications

Building a useful AI application requires more than connecting an application to a language model. Modern intelligent applications require carefully designed architectures that combine models, application logic, data, APIs, security, user interfaces, and cloud infrastructure. Building Azure AI Solutions: From OpenAI Service to Full-Stack Intelligent Applications provides a practical guide to developing AI-powered applications using Microsoft Azure. The book introduces the foundations of Azure AI development and progressively moves toward full-stack intelligent application architecture. Readers will learn how to work with Azure AI services, integrate language models into applications, design AI-powered APIs, connect applications to data, implement retrieval-based systems, and create user-facing intelligent experiences. The book also addresses important production concerns including authentication, security, monitoring, scalability, evaluation, responsible AI, and cost management. Rather than focusing solely on model prompting, this guide approaches AI development from a complete software engineering perspective. It is designed for developers, cloud engineers, AI practitioners, solution architects, and technical professionals who want to understand how to transform AI capabilities into practical and scalable applications.