Hiring Engineers in 2025: What Actually Works
Entry-level engineering jobs are down 60% since 2022. What I look for when hiring, how I run interviews, how I keep people, and the hire I regret most.
Venkatesan Ramachandran
MCP, A2A, and the Protocol Layer for Enterprise Agents
MCP connects an agent to tools and data. A2A lets agents work with other agents. If you run agents at work, you need to know which problem each one solves.
Why Data Mesh Failed the First Time and How We Fixed It
Our first data mesh looked great in slides and was dead in six months. What went wrong, what we changed the second time, and what I would do if starting now.
Building an Enterprise LLM Platform That Actually Ships
Most enterprise LLM projects die in pilot. To get one into production, start with evals and watch the cost. Expect RAG to be harder than the blog posts say.
Event-Driven Intelligence: Moving Retail Decisioning from Batch to Real-Time
Retail teams often decide on yesterday's batch report. What it took to move those decisions onto live Kafka events, and what "hours to milliseconds" means.
MLOps at Scale: How We Made Model Deployment Routine
How we made model deployment routine: automated gates, canary releases and self-promoting models. The automation helped. The culture fight mattered more.