Top Ten Technology Trends for 2025

October 11, 2025October 11, 2025 Ankur Kumar

Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders creates awareness and helps build a broader perspective. This article synthesizes the top ten technology trends for 2025 and beyond based on my broader research, technology insights, observations, and industry experience. Click on the corresponding links to read about the technology trends published for 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021. #1 — Agentic AI and Agents Ecosystem By 2028, 33% of enterprise software…

Building Intelligent Apps with Agentic AI: Top Frameworks to Watch for in 2025

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 Ankur Kumar

With the rise of Generative AI, 2025 is all set to extend the realm of building intelligent apps to accelerate productivity and efficiency. While LangChain (launched in 2022) became the first popular framework for building LLM-based applications, open-source and product communities have started innovating faster to make building such applications easier. Agentic AI has emerged as one of the most promising GenAI building blocks in 2025, and a desperate set…

Key Takeaways from State of AI Report 2024

November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 Ankur Kumar

For the last six years (starting in 2018), AI investors Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital have consistently published the State of AI Report. This article summarizes key takeaways from the 2024 report published here, along with the author’s interpretation of model cards, industry reports, research reports, and more available publicly. #1 – Frontier lab performance converges, but OpenAI maintains its edge following the launch of o1 (aka Strawberry) When…

Top Ten Technology Trends for 2025

October 11, 2025October 11, 2025 Ankur Kumar

Building Gen AI Apps with Snowflake Cortex as a Foundational AI Platform

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024 Ankur Kumar

An illustrative blog with a reference application applying Snowflake Cortex With Generative AI in mainstream adoption, Snowflake has shared its Generative AI Vision in the past to bring Gen AI and LLMs closer to the customers’ data. Snowflake’s Cortex AI is their fully managed service (GA on May 24) to manage LLMs and the entire lifecycle for diverse business and technical users: This article shares the key architecture and design approaches and related components…

Top Ten Technology Trends for 2024

June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 Ankur Kumar

Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders provides a broader perspective. It not only helps software architects to understand the impact of technologies being adopted but also helps them build the right skill set for themselves or their team. This article synthesizes the top ten technology trends for 2024 and beyond based on my broader research, technology insights, observations, and industry experience. #1 — Generative AI and AI Platforms Generative AI appears as…

Top Microservices Frameworks in Go

April 11, 2023May 26, 2024 Ankur Kumar

This article is an effort to summarize the Top Microservices Frameworks in Go. Considering the flexibility in MSA (Microservices Architecture), these are not mutually exclusive and you can choose as per your architectural requirements, business need, organizational context, and other factors under consideration. Modern cloud-native architecture can use multiple frameworks in the same organization to develop different microservices. As per Go’s naming conventions, these frameworks can be referred to as…

Key Takeaways from AWS reInvent 2022

January 29, 2023May 26, 2024 Ankur Kumar

AWS re:Invent 2022 (Nov 28 — Dec 2) has continued the tradition of being the most happening cloud computing technology event. While there were many sessions covering leadership, partnership, technology updates, case studies, and much more — this article focused on sharing key takeaways from the event for software architects. #1 —Asynchrony and Event-driven Architecture enable the global scale The key theme of Werner Vogels’ keynote highlights the benefits of building asynchronous,…

How To Ace The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam

January 20, 2023May 26, 2024 Rohit Malhotra

With the growing demand for cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes is becoming a de facto skillset for software architects, developers, and system administrators. While there are different mechanisms to learn Kubernetes, certification such as the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) program by The Linux Foundation helps to provide the direction, curriculum, and knowledge needed for real-world experience. Why get CKA certified? The CKA certification is designed to make sure that holders have the…

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