Introduction: LLM monitoring is essential for maintaining reliable, cost-effective AI applications in production. Unlike traditional software where errors are obvious, LLM failures can be subtle—degraded output quality, increased hallucinations, or slowly rising costs that go unnoticed until the monthly bill arrives. Effective monitoring tracks latency, token usage, error rates, output quality, and cost metrics in […]
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Emerging technologies include a variety of technologies such as educational technology, information technology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, cognitive science, psychotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence.
HL7 v2: The Messaging Standard That Powers Healthcare IT
Executive Summary HL7 v2.x remains the most widely deployed healthcare messaging standard globally, powering 95% of hospital interfaces despite being developed in the 1980s. This deep dive explores why HL7 v2 continues to dominate healthcare IT, how it works at a technical level, and how modern .NET developers can implement robust v2 interfaces for Irish […]
Read more →Structured Output from LLMs: JSON Mode, Function Calling, and Pydantic Patterns (Part 1 of 2)
Introduction: Getting reliable, structured data from LLMs is one of the most practical challenges in building AI applications. Whether you’re extracting entities from text, generating API parameters, or building data pipelines, you need JSON that actually parses and validates against your schema. This guide covers the evolution of structured output techniques—from prompt engineering hacks to […]
Read more →Azure Event Grid: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Event-Driven Architecture
Event-driven architecture has become the backbone of modern distributed systems, enabling applications to respond to changes in real-time while maintaining loose coupling between components. Azure Event Grid represents Microsoft’s fully managed event routing service, designed to simplify the development of event-based applications at scale. After implementing Event Grid across numerous enterprise projects, I’ve gained deep […]
Read more →Context Compression Techniques: Fitting More Information into Limited Token Budgets
Introduction: Context window limits are one of the most frustrating constraints when building LLM applications. You have a 100-page document but only 8K tokens of context. You want to include conversation history but it’s eating into your prompt budget. Context compression techniques solve this by reducing the token count while preserving the information that matters. […]
Read more →What is Landing Zone in Azure? How to implement it via Terraform
In Azure, a landing zone is a pre-configured environment that provides a baseline for hosting workloads. It helps organizations establish a secure, scalable, and well-managed environment for their applications and services. A landing zone typically includes a set of Azure resources such as networks, storage accounts, virtual machines, and security controls. Implementing a landing zone […]
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