While Azure Front Door excels at global load balancing, many enterprise scenarios require regional application delivery with deep integration into virtual network architectures. Azure Application Gateway fills this niche perfectly, providing Layer 7 load balancing with integrated Web Application Firewall capabilities within a single Azure region. Having architected countless regional application delivery solutions over my… Continue reading
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Getting Started with React and ViteJS: Enterprise-Grade Frontend Scaffolding Guide
Building modern React applications shouldn’t feel like wrestling with complex toolchains. Vite has fundamentally changed how we approach frontend development, offering lightning-fast builds and an exceptional developer experience that enterprise teams are increasingly adopting. Introduction This guide walks you through setting up a production-ready React application using Vite as your build tool. We’ll cover project… Continue reading
Global Traffic Distribution with Google Cloud Load Balancing and CDN: Enterprise Edge Architecture
Introduction: Google Cloud Load Balancing and Cloud CDN provide enterprise-grade traffic distribution and content delivery for global applications. This comprehensive guide explores load balancing architectures, from HTTP(S) load balancers and TCP/UDP proxies to internal load balancing and traffic management policies. After implementing global load balancing for applications serving billions of requests daily, I’ve found Google’s… Continue reading
Quantization Methods for LLMs: GPTQ, AWQ, and BitsAndBytes
Last year, I needed to run a 13B parameter model on a 16GB GPU. Full precision required 52GB. After testing GPTQ, AWQ, and BitsAndBytes, I reduced memory to 7GB with minimal accuracy loss. After quantizing 30+ models, I’ve learned which method works best for each scenario. Here’s the complete guide to LLM quantization. Figure 1:… Continue reading
Azure Front Door: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Global Load Balancing and CDN
In an era where milliseconds of latency can translate to millions in lost revenue, global load balancing has evolved from a nice-to-have to a critical infrastructure component. Azure Front Door represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of delivering applications globally with enterprise-grade security and performance. Having designed global application delivery architectures for over two decades,… Continue reading
Azure Container Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Serverless Containers
The evolution of container orchestration has reached an inflection point where the complexity of managing Kubernetes clusters often overshadows the benefits of containerization itself. Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s answer to this challenge, providing a serverless container platform that abstracts away infrastructure management while retaining the flexibility that modern cloud-native applications demand. Having architected numerous… Continue reading
Microsoft Power Platform: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Low-Code Enterprise Development
The democratization of software development has been one of the most significant shifts in enterprise technology over the past decade. Microsoft Power Platform represents the culmination of this movement—a suite of low-code tools that enables organizations to build applications, automate workflows, analyze data, and create intelligent agents without traditional programming expertise. After years of implementing… Continue reading
Mastering Google Cloud Platform: A Complete Architecture Guide for Enterprise Developers
Introduction: Google Cloud Platform has emerged as a formidable player in the enterprise cloud landscape, offering a unique combination of cutting-edge infrastructure, data analytics capabilities, and machine learning services that distinguish it from AWS and Azure. This comprehensive guide explores GCP’s core architecture patterns, enterprise design principles, and production-ready implementations using Terraform and Python. After… Continue reading
Azure Logic Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise Workflow Automation
After two decades of building enterprise integration solutions, I’ve watched workflow automation evolve from complex BizTalk orchestrations to elegant cloud-native services. Azure Logic Apps represents Microsoft’s vision for democratizing integration—enabling both citizen developers and seasoned architects to build sophisticated workflows without drowning in infrastructure concerns. This guide explores how to leverage Logic Apps effectively in… Continue reading
LangGraph Unleashed: Building Stateful Multi-Agent AI Systems with Graph-Based Workflows
Introduction: LangGraph represents a paradigm shift in how we build AI agents. While LangChain excels at linear chains and simple agent loops, LangGraph introduces a graph-based approach that enables complex, stateful, multi-actor applications with cycles, branching, and human-in-the-loop interactions. Released by LangChain Inc. in early 2024, LangGraph has quickly become the go-to framework for building… Continue reading