AI Architecture Pattern 05: Tool Calling
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AI Architecture Pattern 04: Evaluator Optimizer
The answer was valid. It was also wrong.
Pattern 03 gave us schema enforcement — every response field is …
AI Architecture Pattern 03: Structured Output And Validation
Dispute DSP-2026-0042 comes in. The assistant classifies it and returns status: "under review" — …
AI Architecture Pattern 02: Prompt And Context Contract
Pattern 01’s assistant works. It looks up the real transaction record, grounds its answer in it, and …
AI Architecture Pattern 01: Grounded RAG For Payment Support
Mike opens a payment-support assistant and asks a simple question: “Why is my payment …
AI Architecture Patterns: Series Overview
Most AI demos teach you a trick. This series teaches you the decisions.
You’ve seen the tutorials: hook up an API …
Architecture Resilience: Best Practices & Working Practices on AWS
Resiliency Series — Bridge Post. This post synthesises Parts 1–5 into a practitioner’s playbook: the AWS …
Cell-Based Architecture (Part 5): Multi-Platform Cells — Resilience Across Clouds and On-Prem
“The most dangerous phrase in resilience engineering is ‘our cloud provider would never go fully …
Cell-Based Architecture (Part 4): The Selection Matrix — Balancing Resilience, Cost, and Complexity
The Million Dollor Question?
December 2021. AWS us-east-1 goes dark. Millions of applications offline. Estimated …
Building Resilient Systems: Anatomy of Failures — Part 2
Part of Reliability Under the hood Series
“If you haven’t experienced a production outage, you either …
Local AI Chat App — Week 2[Prompt Guardrails + Safety On Our Simple App]
Prompt Guardrails + Safety On Our Simple App
Week 2 is about making the chat app safe, not just smart | …
Building Resilient Systems: Patterns & Implementation — Part 3
Where we are in this journey?
In Part 1, we established the mindset: everything fails, all the time. The question …
I Built a Local AI Chat App — Here's the Architecture (Week 1)
Week 1 of my AI Demo Series · cloudtoailearn.dev 🔗 GitHub repo: https://github.com/narenmak17/week01-simple-chat
Every …
From Cloud to Cognition: Architecting AI-Ready Infrastructure
After 15 years of building cloud infrastructure, I’ve watched the industry shift from bare metal to VMs, VMs to …
From Failure to Resiliency: Building Resilient Systems - Embracing Failure Part-1
After More than decade and half years of building & designing infrastructure & applications, what i realized is …