Varun Kumar is an engineering leader and cloud architect with 15+ years of experience in cloud migration, modernization, and startup growth.
14 articles from this blog
Introduces AI-DLC, a new software delivery lifecycle designed for AI-native engineering, moving beyond incremental AI tool adoption.
Graphify is an open-source knowledge graph tool that helps AI coding assistants understand codebases faster by converting repos into structured maps.
Explores how Claude Code Teams Agents enable specialized AI agents to collaborate like human engineering teams, moving beyond single-assistant coding to scalable AI-driven software delivery.
Explores 10 essential design patterns for coding agents and agentic software delivery, moving beyond AI-assisted coding to AI-augmented development.
Guide on writing a CLAUDE.md file to turn your repository into a project brain for AI coding assistants like Claude Code.
A detailed comparison of Anthropic's Claude 3 and the newer Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models, covering performance, capabilities, and benchmarks.
A comparison of serverless computing and containers, outlining their benefits and ideal use cases for application deployment.
Explains the Saga pattern for managing data consistency in distributed microservices transactions, including implementation on AWS.
Explores key prompt engineering techniques like zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought to improve generative AI outputs.
Strategies and best practices for optimizing AWS compute costs, including right-sizing instances, choosing the latest generations, and using autoscaling.
Strategies for optimizing Amazon RDS costs on AWS, including right-sizing instances, storage optimization, and using Graviton processors.
Explains the fundamentals of data modeling in Microsoft Power BI, covering tables, relationships, and calculated columns/measures for business intelligence.
Compares Azure's Traffic Manager and Front Door services for global load balancing, highlighting their protocols, routing methods, and use cases.
Guide to enabling the 'Mute Notifications during meetings' feature in Microsoft Teams to reduce distractions.
