From AI Pilots to Production Reality: Architecture Lessons from 2025 and What 2026 Demands

A Beginning-of-Year Reflection for Enterprise Architects and Technical Leaders As we step into 2026, it’s worth pausing to reflect on the seismic shifts that defined enterprise architecture in 2025β€”and the hard lessons learned when AI hype met production reality. What began as breathless excitement around generative AI and LLMs has matured into a more nuanced […]

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Agentic AI in Enterprise: Why Infrastructure Readiness Matters More Than Model Capability

After 20+ years in enterprise architecture, I’ve seen that infrastructure readiness matters more than model capability for agentic AI deployment. Gartner predicts 40% of projects will be cancelled by 2027 due to infrastructure gaps, not AI failures.

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From RAG to Agents: The Evolution of AI Applications in 2025

From RAG to Agents: The Evolution of AI Applications in 2025 A Comprehensive Analysis of How AI Applications Evolved from Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Autonomous Agent Systems December 2025 | Industry Whitepaper Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) revolutionized how we build LLM applications by grounding responses in real data. But RAG has limitations: it’s reactive, constrained to retrieval […]

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AI Engineering in 2025: The Year That Changed Everything – A Comprehensive Review

A comprehensive review of the most transformative year in AI engineering history. From GPT-5.2 to Gemini 3, xAI’s Grok 4, DeepSeek’s rise, Kimi K2’s emergence, regulatory shifts, and what’s coming in 2026.

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Migration Guide: From Semantic Kernel & AutoGen to Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 10

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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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.

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