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11 articles on Application & Architecture , AI Systems & hands-on demos
AI Architecture Pattern 01: Grounded RAG For Payment Support
“Why is my card payment still pending?” The model has zero idea — and will answer anyway.
A customer asks a simple question. An LLM with no real data …
Read more →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 key, paste a prompt, get a chatbot. They’re not wrong, …
Read more →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 architecture patterns that hold under pressure, and the team working …
Read more →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 down.’”
In Part 4 we laid six isolation boundaries on a …
Read more →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 business impact: In millions per hour.
Your CIO/CTO asks: …
Read more →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 don’t have enough users or you’re not monitoring …
Read more →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 | https://cloudtoailearn.dev I added prompt guardrails to the Week 1 demo so …
Read more →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 isn’t if your system will fail — it’s how badly.
In …
Read more →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 AI tutorial starts with “call the OpenAI API”. …
Read more →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 containers, and containers to serverless. Each wave changed …
Read more →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 system resiliency is one of the crucial factor of any …
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