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AI Architecture Pattern 01: Grounded RAG For Payment Support

Why This Pattern Exists

[!INFO] The first mistake many teams make with AI assistance is asking an AI model to answer business questions directly from its training memory. That is …

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: …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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”. …

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 …

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 …