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Production engineering reference

Architecture Guides

Decision-oriented architectures with evidence boundaries, alternatives, failure modes, operational checklists, and connected practice.

A governed production AI architecture connecting gateways, orchestration, models, data, security, and observability.
Guide
20 min

Agent Interoperability: Unifying Agent Protocol & Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Architecting enterprise agent control planes: bridging Agent Protocol REST/SSE execution lifecycles with Model Context Protocol multi-server tool, resource, and prompt federation.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

AI Hardware Accelerators & Compute Architecture

A deep dive into NVIDIA H100/H200, AMD MI300X, and Google TPU v5p hardware architectures, HBM3e memory bandwidth, NVLink interconnects, and Roofline model execution.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

AI Observability and Incident Response

A telemetry and response architecture for tracing model, retrieval, tool, policy, quality, cost, and user-outcome failures.

Open architecture
Guide
22 min

The Engineering Guide to Blockchain Architecture, Verifiable Computation & Decentralized AI

A comprehensive reference guide on blockchain state, EVM execution, smart contract security, Layer-2 rollups, EIP-4844 blobs, ZK-SNARKs/STARKs, RISC-V zkVMs, zkML inference, decentralized GPU compute, and secure autonomous on-chain AI agents.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Cost and Reliability Engineering

A control system for optimizing cost per successful task while preserving quality, latency, safety, capacity, and fallback behavior.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

GPU Hardware Architecture, CUDA Optimization & LLM Inference Infrastructure

Production reference architecture guide covering NVIDIA H100/H200/B200 GPU hardware microarchitectures, TFLOPS/AIFLOPS precision math, TPS/TTFT/TPOT/MBU performance metrics, CUDA kernel optimization, and AI Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Deep Research & Autonomous Agent Swarms Reference Architecture

Production architecture blueprint for multi-query research decomposition, iterative web crawling, evidence synthesis, agent swarm topologies, scratchpad state isolation, and Postgres checkpointing.

Open architecture
Guide
24 min

AI Engineering Foundations: The 5 Paradigms, State Space Search, and Neuro-Symbolic Architecture

Architectural synthesis comparing the 5 foundational AI paradigms (Symbolic, Probabilistic, Connectionist, Evolutionary, and Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic)—tracing classical state space search, heuristic admissibility, and MCTS directly to modern inference-time compute rollouts, constrained logit masking, and deterministic agent control planes.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Governed Agent Architecture

A bounded agent control plane for state, tool authorization, delegated credentials, approvals, verification, recovery, and audit.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

GraphRAG & Entity-Knowledge Networks Reference Architecture

Production architecture blueprint for GraphRAG pipelines—covering entity-relation extraction, community detection, sub-graph summarization, and hybrid graph-vector retrieval.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

LangGraph & Deep Agents Reference Architecture

Production architecture blueprint for multi-agent supervisor routing, Pregel state isolation, Postgres checkpointer persistence, human-in-the-loop breakpoints, and failure defenses.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

LLM Evaluation Control Plane

An evaluation architecture connecting capability claims, versioned datasets, deterministic checks, validated graders, release gates, and production outcomes.

Open architecture
Guide
22 min

Long-Context Attention: Ring Attention, RoPE Frequency Scaling & Quantized KV-Caches

Engineering million-token context windows: circular peer-to-peer Ring Attention, 2D rotary embedding extrapolation (YaRN & NTK-aware), and FP8/FP4 KV-cache memory budgeting.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Model Serving Capacity Planning

A workload-first method for sizing accelerators, KV cache, admission, batching, redundancy, autoscaling, and failure reserve.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Multi-Tenant AI Data Isolation

An end-to-end isolation architecture spanning identity, retrieval, caches, tools, prompts, traces, evaluations, exports, and deletion.

Open architecture
Guide
20 min

The Engineering Guide to Ontologies in Software, AI, and Data Systems

A comprehensive guide on ontology engineering—analyzing formal triples, W3C standards (RDF/OWL/SHACL), Domain-Driven Design integration, enterprise Data Mesh virtualization, and Neuro-Symbolic GraphRAG.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Production RAG Reference Architecture & Retrieval Pipeline Guide

Production architecture blueprint for multi-stage RAG pipelines—covering chunking strategies, hybrid search fusion (RRF math), cross-encoder re-ranking, vector database indexing, and evaluation guardrails.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Quantization Frontiers & Hardware Execution Guide

A production guide for FP8, INT4, AWQ, GPTQ, and Unsloth model quantization, scaling factors, and Tensor Core GEMM kernel execution on H100 and A100 GPUs.

Open architecture
Guide
22 min

RLHF, PPO & GRPO: Reasoning Alignment & Policy Optimization Post-Training

Mathematical foundations of Actor-Critic PPO vs. critic-free Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), verifiable rule-based reward engineering, and actor-critic memory budgeting for reasoning models.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

Secure Tool Execution

An execution boundary for untrusted model proposals, typed validation, authorization, credentials, sandboxing, egress, approvals, and verification.

Open architecture
Guide
20 min

Speculative Decoding & Multi-Head Speculation: High-Throughput Autoregressive Serving

Deconstructing draft model speculative decoding, Medusa/Eagle tree-based speculative heads, parallel candidate verification kernels, lossless rejection sampling, and memory bandwidth scaling.

Open architecture
Guide
18 min

SuperAgent Harness & Sandboxed Execution Architecture Teardown

Production reference architecture teardown of sandboxed SuperAgent execution harnesses—analyzing Docker container isolation, declarative SKILL.md dynamic parsing, bash guardrails, and durable state persistence.

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