Azure AI Search on Jason Haley

My Session at Boston Code Camp 40

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Saturday was Boston Code Camp 40, hard to believe it is still going after all these years. We had a good turn out too!

I presented “Agentic RAG”, which was very similar to the session I presented at the Memphis AgentCamp a couple of weeks ago. Due to all the traveling I’ve done since then, I didn’t have a lot of time to update it.

Agentic RAG

It was nice to have an in person group of attendees, so I was able to tailor the content to spend more time on what they wanted. I spent more time on the basics of RAG than Agentic RAG this time.

My Session at Memphis AgentCamp

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today is Memphis AgentCamp - you still have time to catch some sessions! The schedule is here: Schedule.

As always Doug Starnes did a fantastic job organizing a multi-track conference. I’m always impressed at how well he organizes his events.

I presented “Agentic RAG”, which was a long form of the session I presented at the Agent Framework Dev in January. This one was all new code too.

Agentic RAG

The presentation was a quick overview of traditional RAG and focused on using agent framework to build Agentic RAG.

Introducing Agentic RAG Python Sample - IT Support Ticket Search

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introducing Agentic RAG Python Sample – IT Support Ticket Search

A Python sample demonstrating how to build an agentic, multi-agent RAG system using Microsoft’s Agent Framework

I finally finished up the code for the Agentic RAG sample that has been a long time in the making … it will answer all the question types I’ve been after for awhile now:

These were inspired by the https://github.com/amazon-science/mintaka project that I discovered a long time ago.

Hands-on Agent Framework Workshop Jan 2026

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday Bill Wilder, Udai Ramachandran and I held the first In-person, hands-on, all-day, free. Agent Framework Dev Day in BURLINGTON MA for the year. This year, we targeted both .NET and python developers (last year we only focused on .NET).

My presentation and labs focused on implementing Agentic RAG with Agent Framework.

Talk: Agentic RAG

NOTE: The repository has moved to the new Agent Framework Dev Day github.

About the Lab

This year I tried to stay away from the instructional labs that just turns into a treasure hunt, copy paste set of instructions … though not completely.

My Session at Boston Code Camp 39

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This past Saturday was Boston Code Camp 39 (fall edition). For those of you who don’t know, the Boston Code Camp is the one that started it all (back in 2004) - see wikipedia for more info … at this point it may also be the last remaining one (not sure.).

I got to visit with many old friends that I mostly just see at Code Camp these days … many of which I met at a code camp some time in the past 20+ years. I did not get to attend any sessions due to taking the time to catch up with people instead.

Hands-on Boston AgentCon Workshop

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This past Saturday, I held my latest hands on workshop: From Static Files to Smart Agents: Unlocking Document Intelligence at AgentCon Boston. I ended up with around 30 attendees. There was quite a bit of interaction, with some real practical questions being asked about RAG and GenAI applications.

Hand-on-Lab: From Static Files to Smart Agents: Unlocking Document Intelligence

The repository is located at: https://github.com/JasonHaley/agentcon-boston-workshop

What is it?

The end result (which is the “completed” branch of the repo), is a Chainlit application designed to provide four use cases:

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Build 2025: Azure AI Search

If you use Azure AI Search for your RAG applications, you are going to be excited about the new features that were just announced at Microsoft Build 2025.

If you want a video that provides a good overview, I’d recommend watching Pablo Castro’s talk Knowledge Retrieval: RAG for enterprise agents with Azure AI Search, he did a great job highlighting most of the new features.

Custom AI Search Skill to Convert Markdown Tables to JSON

info@jasonhaley.com (Jason Haley) — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Custom Azure AI Search Skill to Convert Markdown Tables to JSON

I was recently asked what options there are for handling large tables in PDFs, when ingesting files for a RAG application. The question was concerning a retrieval system that was having a problem identifying relevant data in some tables. The problem seemed to be due to the headings not being in the same chunk as the data - so the data doesn’t have any context to indicate its meaning.