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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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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BigQuery Unleashed: Building Enterprise Data Warehouses That Scale to Petabytes

Introduction: BigQuery stands as Google Cloud’s crown jewel—a serverless, petabyte-scale data warehouse that has fundamentally changed how enterprises approach analytics. This comprehensive guide explores BigQuery’s enterprise capabilities, from columnar storage and slot-based execution to advanced features like BigQuery ML, BI Engine, and real-time streaming. After architecting data platforms across all major cloud providers, I’ve found […]

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ETL for Vector Embeddings: Preparing Data for RAG

Preparing data for RAG requires specialized ETL pipelines. After building pipelines for 50+ RAG systems, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to ETL for vector embeddings.

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