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Agentic Fitness Functions: Extending Evolutionary Architecture Beyond Deterministic Rules
Deterministic rules safeguard hard metrics, but what about architectural intent? Discover how agentic fitness functions combine AI agents and versioned rubrics to evaluate complex, judgment-heavy concerns—such as boundary fidelity, semantic contract drift, and stale ADR assumptions. Elevate evolutionary architecture governance with continuous, calibrated feedback loops.
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Multi-Agent AI for Production Security Operations: an A2A and MCP Architecture in a 5G Core
The bottleneck in a mature SOC is rarely analyst triage; rather, it is the detection-engineering team's ability to keep the rule base aligned with a threat landscape that evolves faster than rules can be written. Learn how multi-agent system for production security operations has reduced mean times to detect and to respond by 40% and compressed the human work required by 12x.
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Governing AI in the Cloud: a Practical Guide for Architects
In this article, the author outlines a practical approach to AI governance in the cloud, covering discovery of shadow AI, data classification at creation, IAM-based enforcement, policy-as-code, and operational controls. The article shows how organizations can embed governance into delivery pipelines, balancing security, compliance, and developer productivity without relying on manual processes.
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Article Series: Securing the AI Stack: from Model to Production
This series provides your roadmap for the machine age, exploring how to move from vulnerable prototypes to resilient systems through layered defense, robust MLOps, and integrated governance.
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Architecting Autonomy at Scale: Raising Teams without Creating Dependencies
Modern engineering needs a shift from "gates" to "guardrails." Scale via decentralized architecture that treats teams like adults—building judgment through Socratic coaching, shared platforms, and automated drift detection. Move beyond bottlenecks to an interdependent model where AI governance and ADRs preserve context without killing velocity. Empower autonomy while maintaining alignment.
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Architectural Governance at AI Speed
In the GenAI era, code is a commodity, but alignment is not. Traditional review boards can't scale with AI-generated output. This article explores "Declarative Architecture" - transforming ADRs and Event Models into automated guardrails. Move beyond "dumping left" to a model where the conformant path is the path of least resistance, enabling decentralized governance without losing cohesion.
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Evaluating AI Agents in Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, and Lessons Learned
This article introduces practical methods for evaluating AI agents operating in real-world environments. It explains how to combine benchmarks, automated evaluation pipelines, and human review to measure reliability, task success, and multi-step agent behavior. The article also discusses the challenges of evaluating systems that plan, use tools, and operate across multiple interaction turns.
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The Oil and Water Moment in AI Architecture
Have you ever tried mixing oil and water? That is the moment software architecture is entering as deterministic systems meet non deterministic AI behaviour. Architects must anchor intelligent systems in intent, governance and systems thinking. This article introduces the Architect’s V Impact Canvas, a framework for navigating this shift while keeping human trust at the centre.
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Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI
As AI evolves from tool to collaborator, architects must shift from manual design to meta-design. This article introduces the "Three Loops" framework (In, On, Out) to help navigate this transition. It explores how to balance oversight with delegation, mitigate risks like skill atrophy, and design the governance structures that keep AI-augmented systems safe and aligned with human intent.
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Architecture in a Flow of AI-Augmented Change
While AI adoption is surging, most organizations fail to scale past pilots. The solution lies in organizational structure, not just technology. This article details how architects can enable "fast flow" by defining clear domains and guardrails. Learn how to shift from controlling outcomes to curating context, allowing AI to drive continuous, valuable business change.
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Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI Accelerated Development
Autonomous AI agents amplify productivity but can cause severe damage without safeguards. Defend the ReAct loop—context, reasoning, and tools—through provenance gates, planner-critic separation, scoped credentials, sandboxed code, and STRIDE/MAESTRO threat modeling. With robust logging, bounded autonomy, and red-teaming, agents can deliver trustworthy productivity while minimizing risk.
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Architecting the MVP in the Age of AI
AI enhances software architecture by informing decisions, suggesting alternatives, and streamlining documentation. While it can’t replace human judgment, it accelerates MVP development and supports experimentation, trade-off analysis, and technical debt management when provided with sufficient context.