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Series

Follow practical reading paths for engineering topics that deserve more than one article.

AI ENGINEERING · 5 PARTS

Enterprise RAG: From Zero to Production

Architecture, retrieval quality, Azure implementation, agent boundaries and production guardrails.

01

01Enterprise RAG Architecture→ 02Production-Ready RAG on Azure→ 03Retrieval Evaluation Before Model Tuning→ 04AI Agents vs Traditional Automation→ 05Guardrails for Enterprise AI Agents→

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE · 6 PARTS

Microservices in Production

Boundaries, data ownership, transactions, flow control and signals that a service split is—or is not—worth it.

02

01Designing Microservices Without a Distributed Monolith→ 02Saga Pattern When Things Fail→ 03Modular Monoliths: The Underrated Default→ 04Designing APIs for Change→ 05Backpressure: The Missing Part of Scale→ 06When Not to Split a Service→

CLOUD & DEVOPS · 7 PARTS

Azure Architecture in Practice

Platform choices, AKS readiness, networking, infrastructure state, delivery and observability.

03

01Kubernetes Is Not the Architecture→ 02AKS Production Readiness Checklist→ 03Azure Networking Without the Mystery→ 04Terraform State: The Team Contract→ 05The Smallest Useful CI/CD Pipeline→ 06A Practical Guide to Deployment Strategies→ 07Design Observability Before Production→

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE · 4 PARTS

Designing Event-Driven Systems

Events, messaging, consistency, compensation and graceful behavior under load.

04

01The Real Trade-offs Behind Event-Driven Architecture→ 02Saga Pattern When Things Fail→ 03Backpressure: The Missing Part of Scale→ 04Designing Contracts for Change→

ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP · 6 PARTS

Production Engineering Fundamentals

Release confidence, operational evidence, decision quality and lessons that only real systems teach.

05

01What I Check Before Every Production Go-Live→ 02Design Observability Before Production→ 03A Practical Guide to Deployment Strategies→ 04Architecture Is About Trade-offs→ 05What Production Teaches You→ 06Making Architecture Decisions Reversible→

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE · 2 PARTS

.NET Core Features

Practical .NET capabilities, design decisions and production considerations for maintainable applications.

06

01Dependency Injection in .NET — Part 1→ 02Dependency Injection in .NET — Part 2→