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AIDLC — The AI Development Life Cycle

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Script from my podcast at – AI – AI Development Life Cycle

Teams using AI are shipping more than they ever have. They’re also breaking things more than they ever have. And the burnout that all this speed was supposed to fix? That still exists.

The 2025 DORA report notes that AI adoption among software development professionals is at ninety percent now. That’s not a trend anymore; that’s the baseline. The same report found that higher AI adoption correlates with increased delivery but it also correlates with increased delivery instability. Output is up. But the health of the system around that output hasn’t caught up. Speed rose; the structure around it didn’t.

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Unlocking the Power of Multi-Agent AI with CrewAI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved rapidly over the last few years. From single-task large language models (LLMs) to entire systems of autonomous agents, the AI ecosystem is now enabling new classes of intelligent workflows. In this blog post, we’ll build a multi-agent AI assistant that takes in a resume profile, a resume document, and a job description link, then produces a tailored resume and interview questions. We’ll explore how to do this using CrewAI, a Python-based multi-agent framework, and run it against both local models via OLLAMA and remote LLMs like OpenAI’s API.

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Mikro’s Serverless Saga: From Microservices to Madness and back

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This is part 2 of a humor-inspired take on Monoliths to microservices that I wrote a few years back: https://blogs.justenougharchitecture.com/monos-journey-from-monolith-to-microservices/. If you did not read that, please do so first.

Mikro was serving his consumers as always. He consistently met his promises (SLAs), and his life was good. Suddenly, he felt a stab and excruciating pain. “Damnit, what was that?” he said. To Mikro’s horror, he found himself being sliced and diced into smaller and smaller pieces. “But I thought I was already micro enough!” he wailed as functions were extracted from his very being.

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Vault for storing secrets (plus Spring Boot & Mongodb)

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So this is a mix of a couple of howtos. First, we have a simple Spring Boot app that retrieves some data from a MongoDB database that has authentication enabled to access it. Next, we will see how to store secrets in a Vault implementation and then programmatically access it (in our case the user ID and password to access the database).

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Take2 — Setting up k8s Cluster with k3s on Raspberry Pi 3 & Pi 4

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Back to a teach-myself-something type of project, with setting up K8s Cluster on Raspberry Pi devices. I had a couple of older Raspberry Pi 3s and a recently purchased Pi 4 available for this. My old Pi3 devices had Docker Swarm (yes that one) from a couple of years back. This time around I want to get k8s on the 3 Pi devices.

The steps are fairly simple but it can be a bit of work. You should find blogs out there with decent enough directions. So here goes me adding to that library of blogs to make it easier for the next person trying to set this up.

This is an upgrade from my previous similar blog installing Docker Swarm on a two node Pi-3 cluster https://54.210.73.122/running-docker-swarm-raspberry-pi-3/

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Having some fun with Voltswagen to get tests to pass always :)

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I will begin by saying ” DON’T EVER DO THIS IN THE REAL WORLD”. https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen will detect if your build is running inside a CI tool and then force all tests to pass; even if they fail. Now you know why I said “DON’T EVER DO THIS IN THE REAL WORLD”. Hey just having some fun … code quality purists you have been warned not to read further! 🙂

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forge for fast build/deploy for kubernetes (with minikube)

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Just came across a nice dev tool to build and deploy Docker’ized applications. A developer may want to independently build/deploy to a local docker container or another Kubernetes cluster vs. waiting for a remote CI/CD process to deploy to a dev environment. This involves some repetitive tasks such as building the binary, packaging into a Docker container, pushing to a Docker registry and all the way to deploying to a running container. If you run this often it can be a time suck for developers. forge.sh takes away those repetitive steps and lets you build/deploy locally or to another cluster.

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Building HiPeE (High Performance Engineering) teams

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Have you worked in a high performance engineering (HiPeE) team, how do you know you are in one and why is it so hard to replicate that?  Are there factors that make it possible for HiPeE teams to grow and sustain. This was a topic of discussion at a recent chat with a few folks. I speak from my own experiences having seen HiPeE teams and was lucky enough to be part of it couple of times. It came down to a few dimensions for me.

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