Complete migration guide from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to Microsoft Agent Framework. Before/after code examples and step-by-step instructions.
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The Server-First Revolution: How React Server Components Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About Frontend Architecture
For eight years, I built React applications the same way everyone else did: render everything on the client, fetch data with useEffect, and watch the bundle size grow with every new feature. Then React Server Components arrived, and I had to unlearn almost everything I thought I knew about frontend architecture. Server Components vs Client […]
Read more →Real-Time Data Streaming with Apache Kafka: Building Production Event Pipelines in Python
Introduction: Real-time data streaming has become essential for modern data architectures, enabling immediate insights and actions on data as it arrives. This comprehensive guide explores production streaming patterns using Apache Kafka and Python, covering producer/consumer design, stream processing with Flink, exactly-once semantics, and operational best practices. After building streaming platforms processing billions of events daily, […]
Read more →MCP Integration & External Tool Connectivity in Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 9
Connect AI agents to external tools via Model Context Protocol. Learn MCP servers, Microsoft 365 integration, and building custom MCP servers.
Read more →Tips and Tricks – Use AWS Lambda Layers for Shared Dependencies
Share common code and dependencies across Lambda functions to reduce deployment size.
Read more →The Patterns That Actually Matter: What Building Microservices at Scale Taught Me About Distributed Systems
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE This content reflects 20+ years of hands-on enterprise software engineering and architecture experience. Recommendations are production-tested and enterprise-validated. Executive Summary The transition from monolithic architectures to microservices is often painted as a silver bullet for scalability. However, without the right distributed system patterns, it often results in a “distributed monolith”—a system that […]
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