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Cloud & AI Spektra Systems

Amit Malik

Chief Operating Officer at Spektra Systems. All posts below.

I switched from Windows to Mac and built the daily wallpaper app I missed

I missed the Bing Wallpaper app after switching to Mac, so I built Daily Frame — a tiny, free, open-source menu bar app for daily wallpapers.

Building AI Agents: A Practical Framework for Getting Started

A practical guide to building AI agents using Microsoft’s open source tools like AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Foundry. Learn core patterns,…

AI Agents in the Real World: What Actually Works (and What Doesn’t)

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…

Running a Global Tech Team Across Time Zones: What Actually Works

Practical lessons from managing distributed teams across India and the US at Spektra Systems – the 2-hour overlap window, async communication, handoffs,…

SaaSify: How We’re Helping ISVs Go to Market on Cloud Marketplaces

Why cloud marketplace integration is harder than ISVs expect, and how SaaSify handles the plumbing so engineering teams can focus on their actual product.

Kubernetes in 2025: What’s Changed Since I Wrote About AKS

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…

RAG Patterns for Enterprise: What I’ve Learned Building Real Solutions

Real-world lessons from building RAG systems with Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI – chunking strategies, hybrid search, embedding models, cost management,…

How We’re Adding AI to CloudLabs

How we’re integrating AI into CloudLabs – from intelligent lab guidance and troubleshooting to content generation. What worked, what didn’t, and what we…

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: My Early Experience

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…

How to Build a Private ChatGPT for your organization using Azure and Chat Copilot App

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…