Prompt Versioning and Management: Bringing Software Engineering Rigor to LLM Development

Introduction: Prompts are code. They determine how your LLM application behaves, and like code, they need version control, testing, and deployment pipelines. Yet many teams treat prompts as afterthoughts—hardcoded strings scattered across the codebase, changed ad-hoc without tracking. This leads to regressions, inconsistent behavior, and difficulty understanding why outputs changed. This guide covers practical prompt […]

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Azure Traffic Manager: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Global DNS-Based Load Balancing

In the world of globally distributed applications, ensuring users connect to the optimal endpoint is crucial for performance and reliability. Azure Traffic Manager stands as Microsoft’s DNS-based traffic load balancer, enabling you to distribute traffic across global Azure regions and external endpoints. After architecting numerous multi-region deployments, I’ve come to appreciate Traffic Manager as an […]

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