HL7 v3: Understanding RIM and Why v3 Failed to Replace v2

Executive Summary HL7 v3 was designed in the 1990s as the successor to HL7 v2, promising a rigorous, model-driven approach based on the Reference Information Model (RIM). Despite 20+ years of development and standardization, v3 never achieved widespread adoption. Understanding why v3 failed—and where it still matters—is crucial for architects navigating healthcare interoperability standards. 🏥 […]

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Advanced RAG Patterns: From Naive Retrieval to Production-Grade Systems (Part 1 of 2)

Introduction: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to architecture for building LLM applications that need access to private or current information. By retrieving relevant documents and including them in the prompt, RAG grounds LLM responses in factual content, reducing hallucinations and enabling knowledge that wasn’t in the training data. But naive RAG implementations often disappoint—the […]

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AKS pod managed identity

Kubernetes has become one of the most popular container orchestration tools, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service provided by Microsoft Azure. With the increasing use of Kubernetes and AKS, there is a growing need to improve the security and management of access to cloud resources. AKS pod managed identity is a […]

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Azure Front Door: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Global Load Balancing and CDN

Executive Summary In an era where milliseconds of latency can translate to millions in lost revenue, global load balancing has evolved from a nice-to-have to a critical infrastructure component. Azure Front Door represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of delivering applications globally with enterprise-grade security and performance. Configuration Example { “name”: “my-frontdoor”, “properties”: { “enabledState”: […]

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