In the landscape of enterprise application development, reliable messaging infrastructure often determines the difference between systems that gracefully handle load spikes and those that collapse under pressure. Azure Service Bus represents Microsoft’s fully managed enterprise message broker, offering capabilities that extend far beyond simple message queuing. After implementing Service Bus across numerous enterprise integrations, I’ve […]
Read more →LLM Inference Optimization: Caching, Batching, and Smart Routing (Part 1 of 2)
Introduction: LLM inference can be slow and expensive, especially at scale. Optimizing inference is crucial for production applications where latency and cost directly impact user experience and business viability. This guide covers practical optimization techniques: semantic caching to avoid redundant API calls, request batching for throughput, streaming for perceived latency, model quantization for self-hosted models, […]
Read more →Multimodal AI Applications: Building Systems That See, Hear, and Understand
Introduction: Multimodal AI processes and generates content across multiple modalities—text, images, audio, and video. This capability enables applications that were previously impossible: describing images, generating images from text, transcribing and understanding audio, and creating unified experiences that combine all these modalities. This guide covers the practical aspects of building multimodal applications: vision-language models for image […]
Read more →Semantic Kernel: Microsoft’s Enterprise SDK for Building AI-Powered Applications
Introduction: Semantic Kernel is Microsoft’s open-source SDK for integrating Large Language Models into applications. Originally developed to power Microsoft 365 Copilot, it has evolved into a comprehensive framework for building AI-powered applications with enterprise-grade features. Unlike other LLM frameworks that focus primarily on Python, Semantic Kernel provides first-class support for both C# and Python, making […]
Read more →Azure Cosmos DB: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Globally Distributed Databases
Throughout my career architecting distributed systems, few database decisions have proven as consequential as choosing the right globally distributed data platform. Azure Cosmos DB represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of building planet-scale applications—a fully managed NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency anywhere in the world. After implementing Cosmos DB across numerous enterprise […]
Read more →Building Enterprise CI/CD Pipelines with Google Cloud Build: From Code to Production
Introduction: Google Cloud Build provides a fully managed CI/CD platform that executes builds on Google’s infrastructure with automatic scaling and pay-per-use pricing. This comprehensive guide explores Cloud Build’s enterprise capabilities, from multi-stage pipelines and artifact management to security scanning, approval workflows, and deployment automation. After implementing CI/CD pipelines for organizations deploying hundreds of times daily, […]
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