data-engineeringBuilding Blocks for the Open Lakehouse Architecture
An open lakehouse architecture stacks six open layers, from Parquet storage to an MCP access interface, so no single ven…
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gen-aiDecision Models Launched by OpenAI, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Vercel, Perplexity
OpenAI, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Vercel and Perplexity each launched a decision model API. Here is what each vendor says a…
gen-aiJev: A System One Model for Fast AI Decisions
TypeSafe's Jev is a System One model that returns typed decisions instead of text, with reported gains of 200x faster in…
gen-aiAgentic Design Patterns: Google Cloud Reference
A reference guide to agentic design patterns for Google Cloud, covering architecture, orchestration, security, and opera…
gen-aiHydraFusion: Multi-Model Orchestration in Copilot
GitHub's Project HydraFusion routes each coding task to a model workflow built at runtime. Here is how it works and wher…
gen-aiAIP's Context Graph: Palantir's Decision Architecture
Palantir AIP's context graph pairs the Foundry ontology with decision traces, giving enterprises an auditable, learnable…
platform-engineeringTop 10 Platform Engineering Jobs & Skills
Ten platform engineering job types and the tool-level skills behind each one, based on two months of postings tracked by…
data-engineeringBuilding an Open Semantic Data Layer for Agentic Apps
How a large enterprise builds a vendor-neutral semantic data layer for AI agents over Databricks, Snowflake, and RDBMSs,…
gen-aiEmerging Multi-Agent Orchestrator System Design Patterns
Two enterprise multi-agent orchestration patterns, Orchestrator with Dynamic Skills and DAG-based sub-agents, plus the A…
tech-newsPostman Launches AI Stack for Agentic Capabilities
Postman introduced Postman.ai and an Agent Stack — Passport, Fabric, Astro AI, and Fern — built to run AI agents against…
gen-aiAgentic AI Foundation: A Community Unifying AI Tools and Standards
The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) builds open standards across 6 working groups so AI agents interoperate, stay trustwort…
gen-aiWhat is Context Engineering and why is it pivotal for production-grade apps
Context engineering is the discipline of curating what fills an LLM agent's context window at each step — the practice d…
tech-newsFrontier Models Reignite the Race: Six Releases in One Week
Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.6-Cyber, Muse Glimmer, and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning all shipped within …
gen-aiTop 10 AI Coding Agents for Higher Productivity
This article summarizes the top ten AI coding agents worth adopting in 2026, compared on autonomy, interface, and best-f…
learning-pathsWhat Skills Do You Need for an FDE Role? A T-shaped Career Guide
A T-shaped skill map for the Forward Deployed Engineer role — eight breadth areas, a nine-week agentic AI depth stack, a…
tech-newsNVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a Fast Open Model for Agents
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B open MoE model with 3B active parameters built for fast, single-GPU agent …
tech-newsMeta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B Open Agentic Model, and Debuts Muse Code
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open agentic model, and Muse Code, a terminal AI coding agent rivaling Claude Code.…
tech-newsThinking Machines Lab Launches Inkling and Inkling-Small Open-Weight Models
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launched open-weights model Inkling, plus Inkling-Small, a leaner variant now live o…
learning-pathsDevOps Engineer to LLMOps/AIOps Platform Engineer
A seven-stage path from DevOps engineer to LLMOps/AIOps platform engineer — inference serving, AI gateway, agent sandbox…
learning-pathsData Engineer to AI Data Engineer Learning Path
A seven-stage learning path from data engineer to AI data engineer — embeddings, unstructured pipelines, retrieval as a …
learning-pathsJava/Python Developer to AI Engineer Learning Path
A seven-stage learning path from Java or Python developer to AI engineer — model foundations, context engineering, RAG, …
data-engineeringTop Ten Technology Trends for 2026
Observing technology trends through the lens of analysts, research organizations, thought leaders, and personal research…
gen-aiBuilding Intelligent Application with Langchain4j and Java Frameworks
With the growing influence of AI in our day to day life, integrating of LLM models/AI in enterprise applications will be…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends for 2025
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders creates awareness and helps build a bro…
gen-aiBuilding Intelligent Apps with Agentic AI: Top Frameworks to Watch for in 2025
With the rise of Generative AI, 2025 is all set to extend the realm of building intelligent apps to accelerate productiv…
gen-aiKey Takeaways from State of AI Report 2024
For the last six years (starting in 2018), AI investors Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital have consistently publishe…
architectureBuilding Gen AI Apps with Snowflake Cortex as a Foundational AI Platform
An illustrative blog with a reference application applying Snowflake Cortex With Generative AI in mainstream adoption, S…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends for 2024
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not …
platform-engineeringEvolution of In-memory database and in-memory data grid technology
Over the years in-memory computing has evolved and played a significant role in modern architecture primarily as part of…
architectureTop 5 Open Source LLMs for Building Gen AI Enterprise Applications
Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) do not need any introduction with the rise of its massive adoption in the indu…
cloudKey Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2023 for Software Architects
AWS re:Invent 2023 has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology event of the year.…
architectureElevate Your AI Journey with Amazon Bedrock: Unraveling The Key Features
Amazon Bedrock, which was announced in April 2023, has drawn a lot of attention from businesses looking to leverage thei…
gen-aiMicrosoft’s Partner Ecosystem: A Promising Outlook and Strong Belief with Generative AI and Cloud
Microsoft Ignite 2023, a conference aimed at expanding the partner ecosystem, just came to a close. Key announcements ha…
gen-aiUnlocking Dynamic and Futuristic Solutions: AI Development with React
Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword. The global AI market size is likely to reach two trillion USD…
gen-aiChatGPT: Unleashing the Power of Customization for Enterprise Apps
With the rise of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, there is a huge momentum to experiment, ideate, and create innovative solutions unlea…
platform-engineeringDiving Deep into Service Mesh: Unveiling Its Mechanism, Benefits, and Implementation
Preface With the growing demand for cloud-native architecture, microservice-based architecture has become the popular ch…
architectureTop Microservices Frameworks in Go
This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Frameworks in Go. Considering the flexibility in MSA (Micro…
cloudKey Takeaways from Azure Open Source Day 2023
Microsoft has organized an Azure Open Source Day on March 7, 2023. A key focus of the event was to promote building Clou…
cloudTop Ten Technology Trends for 2023
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not …
architectureKey Takeaways from AWS reInvent 2022
AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology e…
certificationsHow To Ace The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam
With the growing demand for cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes is becoming a de facto skillset for software architect…
architecture2022 — The Year In Review From Technology Perspective
2022 has been a phenomenal year from a technology perspective accelerating the adoption of digital transformation across…
tech-tipsTech Tip #7 – Use Google Lighthouse For Improving Quality of Web Pages
Tech Tip: Google Lighthouse (an open source tool) is an automated tool to measure and improve the quality of web pages. …
architectureKey Takeaways from Google Cloud Next 2022
Along with significant product announcements, Google Cloud Next 2022 showed the company’s expanding customer base and pa…
architecture3 Emerging Technologies Redefining Application Architecture
Technology is an evolving field and while I published a separate article on a broader set of technologies getting moment…
architectureTechnology Trends and Updates To Know in API Management Ecosystem
With the evolution of enterprise application integration, APIs are the most common interface to exposing functionalities…
architectureThe Latest Trends in Serverless Application Development
Serverless computing has established itself in mainstream adoption and started appearing in the technology roadmap for e…
cloudKey Takeaways From Google Data Cloud Summit 2022
Google organized the Google Data Cloud Summit 2022 conference sharing product announcements, data products’ strategy and…
architecture5 Lessons Learned From Applying Kubernetes In The Enterprise
Kubernetes is no longer a technology under consideration — it is in mainstream adoption and an industry-standard as a co…
cloudTop Ten Technology Trends For 2022
Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not …
architectureWhy caching and in-memory data grid is no longer an afterthought
Evolution of Caching Technologies In an early stage, caching started with simply putting data into memory (mostly as loc…
architectureAWS App Mesh vs. Istio: A Comparison Of Service Mesh
Context As Microservices architecture isolates system functionalities into multiple independent services, the communicat…
architecture5 Steps You Should Know About Building Cloud Solution Architecture on Azure Cloud
Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest-rising cloud solution providers and with their enriched history of building produc…
tech-tipsTech Tip #6 – Use C4Model for documenting software architecture in a modern way
Tech Tip: Using C4Model for documenting software architecture in a modern way using the technique created by a software …
tech-tipsTech Tip #5 – Use Industry Standards And Guidelines For Documenting And Evaluating Software Architecture
Tech Tip: Using industry standards and guidelines for documenting and evaluating software architecture provides consiste…
architectureTop AWS reInvent 2021 Takeaways for Architects
AWS re:Invent 2021 (Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2021) has been the key highlight in the technology community particularly after the …
tech-tipsTech Tip #4 – Use Lens IDE as a unified tool to manage Kubernetes cluster
Abstraction, flexibility, transparency, and avoiding vendor lock-in are key factors in choosing the suitable Kubernetes …
architecture5 Awesome Views of Kubernetes Architecture
Kubernetes has emerged as a de-facto standard for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for Microservices, Cloud Native, and emer…
tech-tipsTech Tip #3 – Understand DevOps ecosystem to apply trending patterns
Understanding DevOps ecosystem and related CI/CD tools to automate manual operations and apply trending patterns like Gi…
architectureKey Takeaways from CNCF KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021
CNCF has recently wrapped up a virtual conference (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021) with 50+ sessions by eng…
tech-tipsTechnology Tip #2 – Use dive as a tool for optimizing Docker or OCI image
Use dive as a tool for optimizing and exploring a Docker image, layer contents, and discovering ways to shrink the size …
tech-tipsTechnology Tip #1 – Use Vegeta as a Modern Load Testing Tool
Use Vegeta as a modern HTTP load testing tool written in Golang. It is built out of a need to drill HTTP services with a…
architectureTop 10 Tips You Should Know As A Modern Software Architect
With fast-paced technology evolution, software architecture is evolving each day with new patterns and technology choice…
architectureKey Takeaways from SpringOne 2021 Developer Conference
SpringOne is a conference organized by VMWare (earlier Pivotal) is the premier conference for developers and architects …
cloudModern Technical Buzzwords You Should Know As A Software Architect
With the fast-paced technology landscape, there are modern technical buzzwords every software architect encounters on a …
cloudAccelerate Your Cloud Migration Journey With Cloud Assessment Technology
Context Cloud migration is the top priority for IT executives as per the survey by leading research firms. Gartner (in t…
platform-engineeringSolution Options for Choosing the Right Kubernetes Management Strategy
The emergence of Kubernetes as an industry standard for container orchestration platforms is recognized as one of the ke…
cloudSUSE Is All About Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, And Edge Computing
SUSECON has been concluded recently (May 18-20) with 50+ sessions in the area of Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, and Edge …
cloudKey Takeaways From Google I/O 2021 Keynote
Google I/O 2021 keynote session led by Sundar Pichai (CEO) on May 18 revealed many product updates, innovation stories, …
cloudRise Of Cloud Native With CNCF Ecosystem
CNCF has recently wrapped up a virtual conference (KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021) with 50+ sessions by engineerin…
tech-trendsAdobe Is All About Experience Management (Adobe Summit 2021)
Adobe Summit 2021 has been the talk of the town with 400+ sessions focused on Experience Platform, Analytics, Insights &…
platform-engineeringRedis Is Not Just Caching Platform (RedisConf 2021)
RedisConf 2021 has been concluded on Apr 4th with 60+ sessions focused on using Redis as technology to discover the powe…
platform-engineeringElastic Emergence As A Search And Observability Platform
Elastic has recently organized ElasticON virtual conference for North America (on 25th Mar 2021). While this article sum…
tech-trendsWhen to adopt an emerging technology?
As a software architect, you need to make a choice when to adopt emerging technology. As suggested by research companies…
learning-pathsLinux Commands Every Architect Should Know
Linux is pervasive in software deployment architecture, and being a hands-on technologist with Linux helps in various wa…
learning-pathsFree Docker & Kubernetes Courses For Application Architects
As a full-stack architect, understanding and being hands-on with Docker & Kubernetes helps you to drive end-to-end archi…
architectureTop Ten Metrics You Need To Measure Productivity
Follow @ankurkumarz Follow @VedcraftTeam Measuring & tracking the progress of any program is key to success as quoted in…
tech-trendsEmerging Open Source IoT Platforms You Should Not Miss
Follow @ankurkumarz Follow @VedcraftTeam With the rise of the Internet of Things, there is an increasing focus on open s…
architectureHow Did We Increase Incident Analysis Efficiency By Over 40 % using Splunk?
Splunk has been recognized to provide end-to-end data platform capabilities turning data into insights & actionable meas…
architectureTop Ten Technology Trends For 2021
Based on reports published by research companies like Gartner, Forrester, Bain, Deloitte, there are numerous technology …
architectureLessons Learned from AWS Services Outage (Nov 2020)
Context, Analysis & Impact Amazon’s internet infrastructure service experienced a multi-hour outage on Wednesday that af…
architectureDon’t Reinvent for Cloud Migration or Adoption Framework
When it comes to cloud migration or adoption, often organizations get into the practice of building a cloud migration fr…
architectureDon’t Miss These Critical Success Factors For API Management Using MuleSoft
As an enterprise API management solution, MuleSoft has been consistently recognized as a leader by research firms like G…
architectureWhy & How To Get Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Certified In 4 Weeks
Why To Get Azure Fundamentals? If you are using Azure Cloud, then this question becomes irrelevant. But if you are using…
certificationsDon’t miss these learning about Cloud Governance using AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations (launched in 2017) is a key governance & management service if you are using AWS as a cloud service pr…
tech-trendsUnderstanding Digital Business Transformation is key for an informed Architect
Digital business transformation. A buzz word heavily used now a days, however it means different things for different or…
certifications5 Steps for AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification
AWS has launched new version of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate SAA-C02) in March 2020 and based on my jou…
architecture5 Tips On Creating Effective Physical/Deployment Architecture For Cloud
In continuation with our series on empowering seasoned developers to be successful & informed software architects, this …