Serverless Showdown: Cloud Run vs Cloud Functions vs App Engine Choosing the Right GCP Compute Platform for Your Workload I’ve deployed applications to all three GCP serverless platforms—Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and App Engine. Each has strengths, but choosing wrong costs time and money. I’ve seen teams spend weeks migrating from App Engine to Cloud […]
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Orchestrating Chaos: Why AWS Step Functions Became My Secret Weapon for Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Three years ago, I inherited a distributed system that processed insurance claims across twelve microservices. The orchestration logic lived in a tangled web of message queues, retry handlers, and compensating transactions scattered across multiple codebases. When something failed—and in distributed systems, something always fails—debugging meant correlating logs across a dozen services while the business waited […]
Read more →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.
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 →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 […]
Read more →Production-Ready Agents: Observability, Security & Deployment – Part 8
Deploy AI agents to production with enterprise-grade observability, security, and resilience. Complete guide to OpenTelemetry, content safety, and Azure deployment.
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