Introduction: LLMs can generate harmful, biased, or inappropriate content. They can be manipulated through prompt injection, jailbreaks, and adversarial inputs. Production applications need guardrails—safety mechanisms that validate inputs, moderate content, and filter outputs before they reach users. This guide covers practical guardrail implementations: input validation to catch malicious prompts, content moderation using classifiers and LLM-based […]
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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Managed Identity
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service provided by Microsoft Azure. It allows users to quickly and easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Azure. AKS has been a popular choice among developers and DevOps teams for its ease of use and its ability to integrate with other Azure […]
Read more →Azure Virtual Network: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise Cloud Networking
In the landscape of cloud computing, networking remains the foundational layer upon which all other services depend. Azure Virtual Network (VNet) serves as the cornerstone of network architecture in Microsoft Azure, providing the isolation, segmentation, and connectivity that enterprise applications require. Having designed and implemented VNet architectures across numerous enterprise deployments, I’ve come to appreciate […]
Read more →Google Agent Development Kit (ADK): Building Your First AI Agent – Part 1 of 5
Learn how to build production-ready AI agents with Google Agent Development Kit (ADK). This comprehensive tutorial covers architecture fundamentals, setup, and your first search assistant agent with C4 diagrams, code examples, and deployment strategies.
Read more →Testing LLM Applications: Unit Tests, Integration Tests, and Evaluation
Introduction: Testing LLM applications presents unique challenges compared to traditional software. Outputs are non-deterministic, quality is subjective, and the same input can produce different but equally valid responses. This guide covers practical testing strategies: unit testing with mocked LLM responses, integration testing with real API calls, evaluation frameworks for quality assessment, and regression testing to […]
Read more →Securing Cloud Applications with Google Cloud Armor: Enterprise WAF and DDoS Protection
Google Cloud Armor provides enterprise-grade DDoS protection and web application firewall (WAF) capabilities that integrate with Cloud Load Balancing. Cloud Armor Defense Architecture WAF Rule Execution Flow Terraform Configuration resource “google_compute_security_policy” “armor_policy” { name = “cloud-armor-policy” description = “Enterprise Cloud Armor security policy” rule { action = “deny(403)” priority = 100 match { expr { […]
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