Healthcare API Architecture with Azure APIM HIPAA Compliance Requirements ⚖️ HIPAA Technical Safeguards for API Management ✓ Access Control (§164.312(a)(1)): Role-based access, unique user IDs, emergency access procedures ✓ Audit Controls (§164.312(b)): Log all PHI access, monitor API calls, immutable audit trails ✓ Integrity (§164.312(c)(1)): Validate data not altered, use checksums/digital signatures ✓ Transmission Security […]
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Cost Optimization for AI Workloads: Tracking and Reducing LLM Costs
Last quarter, our LLM costs hit $12,000. In a single month. We had no idea where the money was going. No tracking, no budgets, no alerts. That’s when I realized: cost optimization isn’t optional for AI workloads—it’s survival. Here’s how we cut costs by 65% without sacrificing quality. Figure 1: Cost Optimization Architecture The $12,000 […]
Read more →Prompt Performance Monitoring: Tracking LLM Response Quality
Three weeks after launching our AI customer support system, we noticed something strange. Response quality was degrading—slowly, almost imperceptibly. Users weren’t complaining yet, but satisfaction scores were dropping. The problem? We had no way to measure prompt performance. We were optimizing blind. That’s when I built a comprehensive prompt performance monitoring system. Figure 1: Prompt […]
Read more →Introduction to Generative AI: A Comprehensive Guide
The first time I watched a generative model produce coherent text from a simple prompt, I knew we had crossed a threshold that would reshape how we build software. After two decades of working with various AI and ML systems, from rule-based expert systems to deep learning pipelines, I can say with confidence that generative […]
Read more →Scaling Up Your Pods: How Horizontal Pod Autoscaling Wins
After two decades of managing containerized workloads across production environments, I’ve come to appreciate that the difference between a good Kubernetes deployment and a great one often comes down to how intelligently it responds to changing demand. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) represents one of those fundamental capabilities that separates reactive operations from proactive infrastructure management. […]
Read more →Azure Cognitive Services–Experience Image Recognition using Custom Vision (Build an Harrison Ford Classifier)
Custom Vision Service as part of Azure Cognitive Services landscape of pretrained API services, provides you an ability to customize the state-of-the-art Computer Vision models for your specific use case. Using custom vision service you can upload set of images of your choice and categorize them accordingly using tags/categories and automatically train the image recognition […]
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