After publishing my article on the compound AI revolution, I received dozens of messages from CTOs and engineering leaders asking the same question: “This sounds transformative, but where do I actually start?” It’s the right question. Understanding that compound AI systems represent the future is one thing. Building one that delivers real business value isContinue reading “Getting Started with Compound AI: A Practical Guide for CTOs”
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The AI-Augmented Nurse Practitioner: Transforming Primary Care Through Intelligent Partnership
The future of healthcare is not defined by artificial intelligence replacing clinicians, but by AI amplifying the uniquely human capabilities that make Nurse Practitioners (NPs exceptional caregivers. Over the coming decade, AI is poised to fundamentally reshape medical practice—restoring focus, time, and meaning to patient care. From Administrative Burden to Clinical Focus Nurse Practitioners spendContinue reading “The AI-Augmented Nurse Practitioner: Transforming Primary Care Through Intelligent Partnership”
The Compound AI System Revolution: Why the Future Isn’t One Model, It’s Orchestrated Intelligence
When you ask a modern AI coding assistant to build a web application, something fascinating happens beneath the surface. The system doesn’t just “think harder” and output code. Instead, it orchestrates a complex dance: analyzing your requirements, breaking them into subtasks, generating code for each component, running that code in a sandboxed environment, reviewing errorContinue reading “The Compound AI System Revolution: Why the Future Isn’t One Model, It’s Orchestrated Intelligence”
Understanding Loopback Connections in Cloud Apps
When Your Cloud App Calls Itself: The Hidden Cost of Loopback Connections Most performance issues don’t come from exotic bugs or mysterious cloud failures.They come from well-intentioned design decisions that quietly stop scaling. One of the most common—and least understood—examples I see in cloud applications is this: An application makes HTTP calls back to itself.Continue reading “Understanding Loopback Connections in Cloud Apps”
Mastering Network Traces with Wireshark: A Guide for App Engineers
The Wireshark Cheat Sheet Every Azure App Service Engineer Needs (But Nobody Tells You About) Why network traces feel like reading hieroglyphics—and how to actually understand them After years of debugging critical Azure App Service escalations at 2 AM, I’ve learned something important: the gap between “my application is slow” and “here’s exactly why” isContinue reading “Mastering Network Traces with Wireshark: A Guide for App Engineers”
The Task You Hate Is Your Best Opportunity for AI Automation
Here’s the Secret Nobody Tells You About AI Everyone’s talking about AI like it’s going to replace jobs or revolutionize industries. But the real power of AI isn’t in the big, scary future stuff. It’s in the small, soul-crushing task that makes you groan every time it lands in your inbox. The one you wishContinue reading “The Task You Hate Is Your Best Opportunity for AI Automation”
Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI
Agentic AI: The Moment Machines Stopped Waiting for Orders Until now, AI has been like a well-trained butler. It listens. It responds. It follows commands.But something big just changed. For the first time, we’re building machines that don’t wait to be told what to do.They think ahead.They set goals.They take action. This is Agentic AI—aContinue reading “Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI”
Boost Your App Performance with Azure’s Intelligent SRE Agent
What Happens When AI Meets the Azure SRE AGENT? It Writes the Fix. Meet the Azure SRE Agent — an intelligent, autonomous system purpose-built to raise the bar on application reliability. It continuously monitors your applications in real time, detects abnormal behavior, diagnoses root causes at the code level, and proposes (or implements) precise, production-safeContinue reading “Boost Your App Performance with Azure’s Intelligent SRE Agent”
Enhancing Debugging with AI Insights
AI’s Impact on Debugging: From Manual Root Cause Analysis to Intelligent Assistants Introduction: Debugging in the Age of Cloud Complexity Debugging has always been one of the hardest parts of software engineering. In the cloud era, that difficulty has multiplied. Distributed architectures, async workloads, and transient network failures mean engineers often spend more time findingContinue reading “Enhancing Debugging with AI Insights”
Effective Memory Dump Capture in Azure: Portal vs. Procdump
Why Capturing Memory Dumps in Azure App Service Is Best Done Through the Portal (Not procdump) When an application slows down, crashes unexpectedly, or consumes more resources than it should, capturing a memory dump is one of the fastest ways to diagnose the root cause. Memory dumps allow engineers to inspect what’s happening inside theContinue reading “Effective Memory Dump Capture in Azure: Portal vs. Procdump”
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