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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Azure Container Apps: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Serverless Containers

Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s serverless container platform, offering Kubernetes-like capabilities without cluster management complexity, powered by KEDA auto-scaling and native Dapr integration. Container Apps Architecture Platform Comparison Key Features Feature Description Use Case Revisions Immutable snapshots of app version Blue-green, canary deployments Traffic Splitting Route % traffic to different revisions A/B testing, gradual rollouts […]

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LLM Latency Optimization: Techniques for Sub-Second Response Times

Introduction: LLM latency is the silent killer of user experience. Even the most accurate model becomes frustrating when users wait seconds for each response. The challenge is that LLM inference is inherently slow—autoregressive generation means each token depends on all previous tokens. This guide covers practical techniques for reducing perceived and actual latency: streaming responses […]

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Embedding Strategies: Model Selection, Batching, and Long Document Handling

Introduction: Embeddings are the foundation of semantic search, RAG systems, and similarity-based applications. Choosing the right embedding model and strategy significantly impacts retrieval quality, latency, and cost. Different models excel at different tasks—some optimize for semantic similarity, others for retrieval, and some for specific domains. This guide covers practical embedding strategies: model selection based on […]

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Mastering Google Cloud Platform: A Complete Architecture Guide for Enterprise Developers

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services for enterprise developers. This guide covers the essential architecture patterns, services, and best practices that every developer needs to master for building production-grade applications on GCP. GCP Resource Hierarchy Understanding GCP’s resource hierarchy is fundamental to designing secure, manageable enterprise architectures. Resources are […]

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