How Much AI Should We Use? Balancing Intelligence, Reliability and Cost at Scale
Here’s a question that should be on every engineering leader’s mind right now: are we using AI where it truly adds value, or just because we can?
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2026
Agentic Connectivity: When to Use MCP vs. Agent Skills
The landscape of AI agents is evolving from simple chat interfaces to autonomous systems that can do things—browse the web, manage infrastructure, or interac...
Agentic AI: Capability vs Architecture
“Agentic AI” is the buzzword of the moment. It’s everywhere in my feed, often accompanied by complex diagrams of five different bots talking to each other to...
Tenant Management Application - Deploy to GCP
Evolution 6 (Final): Deploying our full-stack application to Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Run and Cloud SQL. At $18-22/month, it’s 20% cheaper than AWS ...
2025
Tenant Management Application: 5 AWS Deployment Approaches Compared
Evolution 6: Exploring and comparing 5 different AWS deployment strategies for a full-stack application—from $10/month low-cost EC2 to enterprise-grade ECS F...
Tenant Management Application with AI Conversational Interface
Evolution 5: Introducing a dual-pane conversational interface with a dedicated ‘Canvas’ for rich data visualization, bridging the gap between chat and tradit...
Roadmap to introduce AI in your applications
Most teams want AI in their products, but ripping out familiar workflows to bolt on a chatbot rarely ends well. This roadmap shows how to layer AI into an ex...
Unlocking Unlimited Possibilities: AI-Powered On-Demand Insights with Tenant Management MCP
In our previous post, we explored the technical foundation of converting our Tenant Management REST API into an MCP server. Today, we’re diving into somethin...
Tenant Management API to MCP Conversion: Bridging Enterprise Apps with AI
Today marks a significant milestone in the Tenant Management evolutionary journey: we’re taking our first step into the AI/LLM world by creating a Model Cont...
Tenant Management App Demo (WebUI)
Following the architectural foundation established in Tenant Management Java Stack: System Architecture, this post provides a comprehensive demo walkthrough ...
Tenant Management Java Stack: System Architecture
Building on the hands-on migration I shared in Tenant Management App: Spring Boot and React Transition, this post documents the current architecture baseline...
Tenant Management App: Spring Boot and React Transition
Today I kicked off a new chapter for the Tenant Management application by rebuilding it as a React + Spring Boot project. After exploring the Python/Flask ve...
Cursor: AI-Powered Automation in Modern Development
I’ve been absolutely amazed by how Cursor is revolutionizing software development. The ability to describe what you want in natural language and watch it tra...
Tenant Management System: Modular Monolith Architecture
Building on our modular monolith evolution, today I want to dive deep into the system architecture of the Tenant Management System. This post explores the ar...
From Single-File to Modular Monolith: Refactoring the Tenant Management App
Following up on my previous post about the single-file tenant management app, today I want to share the next step - refactoring it into a modular monolith. T...
Building a Full-Stack Property Management App: Single File Version
Today I want to share my experience building a comprehensive Tenant Management App - a full-stack web application that manages properties, tenants, and finan...
Landlord-Tenant Management System: Requirements and Objectives
Today I’m documenting the requirements for a Landlord-Tenant Management System - a specialized application designed for individual landlords who manage their...
Welcome to My Learning Journey!
Welcome to my corner of the internet where I share my journey of learning and growing in the world of technology and solution architecture. I’m not claiming ...