Portland Fabric User Group Virtual Meetup

Building and Evaluating RAG with Microsoft Fabric

Join us for an immersive journey into the world of AI development within Microsoft Fabric! This session is designed for those looking to dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It will cover the full engineering loop — from building and evaluating to optimizing. While the AI/ML field rapidly evolves, useful patterns and practices have emerged that allow AI and data engineers to develop integrated solutions with predictable performance. You will learn about various data science capabilities in Fabric to effortlessly prepare and transform data for AI-powered processing in a RAG system using natural language and other relevant tools within notebooks. Non-trivial practical insights on quality assurance will be provided, grounded in the Azure Data Applied AI team's experience with real-world scenarios and supported with generalized code samples. We will discuss advanced topics such as creating a pipeline to continuously update a benchmark accounting for data drift, or generating an FAQ from an online forum using hierarchical agglomerative clustering. Bonus: You will get a unique opportunity to learn how we use our own tools to help reduce the overhead on the team!