Eric Thomas

Eric Thomas is a Senior Software Engineer focused on developing cloud-first apps and automations. Eric is focused on Power Apps, Power Automate and deploying Azure Services. His language of choice is Python. Some favorite Azure resources include Logic Apps, Functions, Azure SQL, Azure OpenAI, Blob Storage and Key Vault. Eric is data fluent and astute with REST APIs, basic app security and systems administration. He always engages thoughtfully with each team he is a part of and creates rich documentation and diagrams for each project he is lucky to work on.


Published by Eric Thomas

Azure Database for PostgreSQL: A Quickstart Guide

- 12 min read-Eric Thomas
This tutorial guides you through the shortest and lowest cost path to create a new ADP server, a new database, a test table, some handy extensions, and teaches you the basics of vector search so you can fast-track your retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) experiments.

Azure OpenAI QuickStart Guide

- 10 min read-Eric Thomas
Join me in this concise video tutorial where I demonstrate how to deploy a new Azure OpenAI resource within an existing Resource Group. Watch as I deploy two powerful language models, GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5 Turbo, and then walk you through a quick setup in the Azure AI Studio Chat Playground. By the end, you'll learn how to configure and interact with these models to harness the power of Azure's AI capabilities for your applications.