In Q3 2024, 72% of production RAG pipelines failed to meet p99 latency SLAs for multimodal queries, according to a Datadog survey of 1,200 engineering teams. Most blamed fragmented toolchains for text and image retrieval—until Stable Diffusion 3.0’s embedding API and Llama 4’s 1M-token context window changed the game. This is the definitive guide to building unified multimodal RAG pipelines that c
ABOUT THIS LAB Microsoft Learn was one of those sessions that looks simple first until you hit a permission wall you did not expect like I did. Here is the full walkthrough, including the gotcha that tripped me up. The objective of this lab is to configure an Azure Storage account that can host public-facing content such as images, videos, and documents while supporting high availability, soft del