A practical guide to building AI agents using Microsoft's open source tools like AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Foundry. Learn core patterns, architecture approaches, and gotchas.
Posts published by “Amit Malik”
What I've learned shipping AI agents in production - single agent beats multi-agent, tool calling is the hard part, cost management, gotchas, and why MCP matters.
Practical lessons from managing distributed teams across India and the US at Spektra Systems - the 2-hour overlap window, async communication, handoffs, hiring, and cultural gaps.
Why cloud marketplace integration is harder than ISVs expect, and how SaaSify handles the plumbing so engineering teams can focus on their actual product.
What's changed in Kubernetes and AKS since 2019 - automatic upgrades, GitOps with Flux, KEDA autoscaling, managed Istio, GPU node pools, and what's still hard.
Real-world lessons from building RAG systems with Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI - chunking strategies, hybrid search, embedding models, cost management, and practical gotchas.
How we're integrating AI into CloudLabs - from intelligent lab guidance and troubleshooting to content generation. What worked, what didn't, and what we learned.
My honest review of Microsoft Copilot for M365 after 2.5 months of daily use - Teams meeting summaries are great, PowerPoint and Excel need work, and is $30/month worth it?
Why do you need a private ChatGPT for your employees? Hey, you probably already know what ChatGPT is, right? It’s a cool way to generate text, code, images for your tasks, based on your input. You can use it for all kinds of things, like crafting proposals, summarizing documents, answering questions, and more. ChatGPT is powered by OpenAI, which is…
A practical guide to getting started with GitHub Copilot - setup, first impressions, where it shines, where it falls short, and tips to get real value from it.