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I'm Saravanan — with over 20 years in enterprise engineering, 50+ production-deployed applications, and AWS Community Builder. I write field notes on Sovereign AI, AI-SDLC, and what AI-assisted engineering actually looks like when the discipline has to hold.
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Two Years of AI-Assisted Code Development. Here Is What I Learned and Built.
Field notes from two years of building 50+ production apps with AI tools — and how every lesson from that journey shaped the blog you are reading right now.
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Zero Downtime Is a Reliability Requirement, Not a Last-Minute Task
Zero downtime requires backward-compatible releases, safe schema changes, rollback, observability, and tested recovery. It is a reliability requirement, not a last-minute DevOps task.
How to Do DevOps and SRE the Right Way From Day One
Getting Started with Apple MLX for Local AI and LLM App Development
NVIDIA AI Cloud Services: DGX Cloud, NIM, and Enterprise AI
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Private GPT, air-gapped LLMs, and regulated AI infrastructure.
SOC2/ISO patterns, zero-trust, secrets management, audit-ready IaC.
Internal Developer Platforms, golden paths, and supply-chain security.
CI/CD, IaC, deployment strategies, and operational excellence.
AWS, Azure, GCP — cost, resilience, and reference architectures.
Managed AI services, GPU platforms, model runtimes, and provider trade-offs across public and ecosystem-specific AI stacks.
Architecture, roles, and engineering practices for AI-based product development.
Process-first SDLC automation, review, and governance for AI-assisted delivery.
Field-tested practices, prompting discipline, and design-first methods for shipping with AI tools.
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