Ranjan Kumar
Home
Blog
Guides
Books
Training
My Tools
Contact
← All articles
ai-engineering
42 articles
Title
Date
LLM Wiki Is Not a RAG Replacement - It's a Synthesis-Time Decision
Apr 20, 2026
Subagents: How to Run Parallelism Inside a Single Agent Session Without Poisoning the Parent
Apr 17, 2026
Hooks: The Enforcement Layer That Turns Agent Policy Into Agent Fact
Apr 17, 2026
Context Engineering: The Skill That Separates Production Agents from Demos
Apr 17, 2026
Which Claude Code Layer Solves Your Problem? A Diagnostic Guide for AI Engineers
Apr 17, 2026
Four Habits from the Creator of Claude Code That Will Change How You Ship
Apr 17, 2026
Agent Skills Are Not Prompts. They Are Production Knowledge Infrastructure.
Apr 17, 2026
Multi-Agent Pipeline Orchestration and Failure Propagation: Designing for Blast Radius
Apr 8, 2026
Global Policy Enforcement vs. Per-Agent Gate Rules: Two Layers That Must Not Collapse Into One
Apr 8, 2026
Cost Governance and Budget Allocation Across Agent Types: Token Spend Is Infrastructure Spend
Apr 8, 2026
Compliance, Audit Trails, and Regulatory Requirements for Agentic Systems
Apr 8, 2026
Agent Versioning and Deployment Strategies: Shipping Agent Updates Without Breaking Running Pipelines
Apr 8, 2026
Unified Observability Across Agent Fleets: Building the Control Plane Metric Layer
Apr 7, 2026
Validation Layer Design: Building the Reflex That Catches What the Model Gets Wrong
Apr 5, 2026
State Management for Agentic Systems: How to Build Agents That Don't Start Over
Apr 5, 2026
Retry, Fallback, and Circuit Breaking: Building LLM Infrastructure That Survives Outages
Apr 5, 2026
Normalization and Input Defense: Hardening the Entry Point of Your LLM System
Apr 5, 2026
Gated Execution: Why Your Agent Should Never Act Without Permission
Apr 5, 2026
Deterministic Constraint Systems: Building Tool Registries That Keep Agents in Scope
Apr 5, 2026
Context Engineering: What the Model Sees Is What the Model Does
Apr 5, 2026
Harness Engineering: The Missing Layer Between LLMs and Production Systems
Apr 3, 2026
From Unknown Codebase to Architecture Doc, Automated - Building the LangGraph Pipeline
Mar 12, 2026
From Unknown Codebase to Architecture Document: A Complete Practitioner's Guide
Mar 11, 2026
Why Your AI Agent Finishes Tasks But Fails the Goal
Mar 10, 2026
Claude Code Guide: Build Agentic Workflows with Commands, MCP, and Subagents
Mar 9, 2026
Tool Use in LLM Agents: From Local Functions to the Model Context Protocol
Mar 7, 2026
Agentic AI Observability: Why Traditional Monitoring Breaks with Autonomous Systems
Feb 27, 2026
Beyond Copy-Paste: Staying Relevant in the Age of AI Code Assistants
Feb 24, 2026
Building Production-Ready AI Agent Services: FastAPI + LangGraph Template Deep Dive
Feb 15, 2026
Choosing the Right LLM Is a Systems Decision, Not a Model Benchmark
Feb 6, 2026
Choosing the Right LLM Is a Systems Decision, Not a Model Benchmark
Feb 6, 2026
Building a Production MCP Server: Architecture, Pitfalls, and Best Practices
Jan 23, 2026
Stop Pasting Screenshots: How AI Engineers Document Systems with Mermaid
Dec 30, 2025
Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LangGraph: A Developer's Guide to Deterministic Workflows
Dec 29, 2025
Building Production-Ready AI Agents with LangGraph: A Developer's Guide to Deterministic Workflows
Dec 29, 2025
Choosing the Right LLM Inference Framework: A Practical Guide
Dec 24, 2025
Agent Building Blocks: Build Production-Ready AI Agents with LangChain | Complete Developer Guide
Dec 22, 2025
Building Agents That Remember: State Management in Multi-Agent AI Systems
Nov 30, 2025
Asynchronous Processing and Message Queues in Agentic AI Systems
Nov 27, 2025
Building Production-Ready Agentic AI: The Infrastructure Nobody Talks About
Nov 27, 2025
LLM-Powered Chatbots: A Practical Guide to User Input Classification and Intent Handling
Aug 12, 2025
Inside the LLM Inference Engine: Architecture, Optimizations, Tools, Key Concepts and Best Practices
Feb 9, 2025