Prompt Templates and Management: Building Maintainable LLM Applications

Introduction: As LLM applications grow in complexity, managing prompts becomes a significant engineering challenge. Hard-coded prompts scattered across your codebase make iteration difficult, A/B testing impossible, and debugging a nightmare. Prompt template management solves this by treating prompts as first-class configuration—versioned, validated, and dynamically rendered. A good template system separates prompt logic from application code, […]

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Azure Traffic Manager: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Global DNS-Based Load Balancing

In the world of globally distributed applications, ensuring users connect to the optimal endpoint is crucial for performance and reliability. Azure Traffic Manager stands as Microsoft’s DNS-based traffic load balancer, enabling you to distribute traffic across global Azure regions and external endpoints. After architecting numerous multi-region deployments, I’ve come to appreciate Traffic Manager as an […]

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Knowledge Graph Integration: Structured Reasoning for LLM Applications

Introduction: Vector search finds semantically similar content, but it misses the structured relationships that make knowledge truly useful. Knowledge graphs capture entities and their relationships explicitly—who works where, what depends on what, how concepts connect. Combining knowledge graphs with LLMs creates systems that can reason over structured relationships while generating natural language responses. This guide […]

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