How to Locate a Document That Contains a Specific Item in an Array in Cosmos DB

 Posted on February 12, 2026  |  3 minutes  |  536 words  |  Glen Thomas Berger

Querying documents in Azure Cosmos DB with Cosmos DB SQL Query Language often involves working with array fields—whether arrays of strings, numbers, or complex objects. A common scenario is: “How do I find all documents where a particular item exists inside an array?” Azure Cosmos DB provides powerful query capabilities, including the ARRAY_CONTAINS function, which allows you to search arrays efficiently. Below, you’ll learn how it works, see practical examples, and understand how to query documents containing specific list items. [Read More]
Azure  CosmosDB  SQL 

Key Takeaways from Azure AI Discovery Day

 Posted on September 27, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  738 words  |  Glen Thomas Berger

Earlier this month I attended “Innovate with Azure Day Norway” at Microsoft’s office in Oslo. This was a thorough all-day session from Microsoft to explore how artificial intelligence can underpin business innovation, contributing to growth, security and scalability. It was also a nice opportunity to network and get to know new people. These are some key takeaways from the topics that was covered: Migrate to be AI-ready The place to start to get your organization AI ready, is to migrate your infrastructure to the cloud. [Read More]
Azure  Microsoft  Copilot  GitHub 

How to create a blog running on Azure Static Web Apps and Hugo

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1539 words  |  Glen Thomas Berger

After receiving some questions about how this blog was implemented, I created this tutorial on how to create your own blog. This blog is hosted on Azure Static Web Apps, and it uses the framework Hugo for site generation. I use Visual Studio Code to edit the content and GitHub for source control. For Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) the site use GitHub Actions 1. About Azure Static Web Apps First, what is Azure Static Web Apps? [Read More]
Azure  StaticWebApps  Hugo  Blog  VSCode 

An Introduction to Azure AI Capabilities

 Posted on June 10, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  687 words  |  Glen Thomas Berger

You have probably already used Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot, and you might be amazed by their AI-powered code suggestions and productivity enhancements. What if you could integrate AI into your own products and services? In this blog post I’ll scratch the surface of some of the capabilities that are available in Microsoft Azure. Azure AI Vision Azure AI Vision is a service you can use for image recognition and to extract information from your images. [Read More]
Azure  AI  .NET 

Create a Web Api Using a Http Triggered Azure Function App With vs Code

 Posted on January 18, 2023  |  3 minutes  |  621 words  |  Glen Thomas Berger

A step by step guide on how to create and test a simple Web API using Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code. How to create the function If you haven’t allready set up a development environment with Visual Studio Code on your computer, there are some prerequisites to get started. Install VS Code Install the Azure Functions extension and Azure Tools Install Core Tools from Microsoft Create a new folder for your project After creating the new folder, trust the folder. [Read More]
Azure  API