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Nitin Kumar Singh

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97 entries

2026
19 Aug The Auth Chapter Every MCP Tutorial Skips: Real SSO for Microsoft Graph
06 Aug Groundedness Detection vs Groundedness Evaluation: Two Azure Products, One Name
05 Aug The Production Guardrail Stack: Presidio + Azure Content Safety + NeMo Guardrails Around a MAF Agent
04 Aug Defense-in-Depth for AI Agents on Azure: Prompt Shields, Spotlighting, and the Coverage Gap
03 Aug Cost Control for LLM Apps: Caching, Batching, Model Tiers
20 Jul Observability for AI Agents on Azure: OpenTelemetry GenAI to the Agent Dashboard
20 Jul The Agent Harness
14 Jul The OBO Chain Through MCP: Passing User Identity from an Agent to Microsoft Graph
14 Jul Every Evaluator in the Azure AI Evaluation SDK, and When to Use Each
13 Jul The Learning Loop Is the Moat: An Architect's Read on Nadella's Reverse Information ParadoxUpdate
10 Jul Choosing the Right Agent Identity: Managed Identity, Entra Agent ID, OBO, or Service Principal
09 Jul The Keyless Cookbook: Managed Identity for Every Azure Service Your Agent Touches
09 Jul Microsoft Foundry's Production-Agent Release: A Solution Architect's ReadUpdate
09 Jul Zero-Secrets Architecture on Azure: Managed Identity for AI Agents
08 Jul Zed and DeltaDB: Version Control Between CommitsUpdate
08 Jul The AI Gateway in Azure API Management: A Control Plane for Enterprise AI
02 Jul Magentic-UI + Fara-7B: A Local-First Computer-Use Agent You Can Actually RunUpdate
02 Jul Microsoft Agent Framework Makes Tool and File Access Approval-by-DefaultUpdate
24 May AI Security: Prompt Injection, Jailbreaks, and Guardrails
10 May MAF v1 — Prompt engineering (Python + .NET)
10 May MAF v1 — Deployment with Docker and Compose
09 May MAF v1 — Python ↔ .NET asymmetries: a porting reference
09 May MAF v1 — Evaluation framework (Python + .NET)
09 May MAF v1 — E-commerce repo guided tour (Python + .NET)
03 May MAF v1 — Workflow Visualization (Python + .NET)
03 May MAF v1 — Production hardening (Python + .NET)
03 May MAF v1 — DevUI for agents and workflows (Python)
02 May MAF v1 — State and Checkpoints (Python + .NET)
02 May MAF v1 — Human-in-the-Loop (Python + .NET)
02 May MAF v1 — Declarative Workflows (Python + .NET)
26 Apr MAF v1 — Magentic Orchestration (Python + .NET)
26 Apr MAF v1 — Handoff Orchestration (Python + .NET)
26 Apr MAF v1 — Group Chat Orchestration (Python + .NET)
25 Apr MAF v1 — Sequential Orchestration (Python + .NET)
25 Apr MAF v1 — Concurrent Orchestration (Python + .NET)
25 Apr MAF v1 — Agents in Workflows (Python + .NET)
21 Apr MCP: What It Is and Why It Changes How You Build AI Tools
19 Apr MAF v1 — Workflow Executors and Edges (Python + .NET)
19 Apr MAF v1 — Workflow Events and Builder (Python + .NET)
19 Apr MAF v1 — MCP Tools (Python + .NET)
18 Apr MAF v1 — Observability with OpenTelemetry (Python + .NET)
18 Apr MAF v1 — Middleware and the Agent Pipeline (Python + .NET)
18 Apr MAF v1 — Context Providers (Python + .NET)
12 Apr Building a Multi-Agent E-Commerce Platform: The Complete Guide
12 Apr AI Agents: Concepts and Your First Implementation
12 Apr Prompt Engineering for AI Agents -- Grounding, Roles, and YAML Configuration
12 Apr Building Domain-Specific Tools -- Giving Agents Real Capabilities
12 Apr Multi-Agent Architecture: Orchestration and the A2A Protocol
12 Apr Observability -- Tracing Multi-Agent Workflows with OpenTelemetry
12 Apr Frontend: Rich Cards and Streaming Responses
12 Apr Production Readiness: Auth, RBAC, and Deployment
12 Apr Agent Memory -- Remembering Across Conversations
12 Apr Evaluating Agent Quality -- Testing What You Cannot Unit Test
12 Apr MCP Integration -- Connecting AI Agents to the Tool Ecosystem
12 Apr Graph-Based Workflows -- Beyond Simple Orchestration
12 Apr MAF v1 — Streaming and Multi-turn (Python + .NET)
12 Apr MAF v1 — Sessions (Python + .NET)
11 Apr MAF v1 — Your First Agent (Python + .NET)
11 Apr MAF v1 — Setup your dev environment (Python + .NET)
11 Apr MAF v1 — Adding Tools (Python + .NET)
07 Apr What Is an AI Agent? (And When Should You Build One)
04 Apr Dev Tunnels: Test Webhooks and Share Local Apps Without a DeployUpdate
03 Apr Why I Switched from npm to pnpm (And Why You Should Too)
21 Mar Building Dictum — a macOS Dictation App with Tauri 2 (Rust + React) & Azure OpenAI
10 Jan Azure App Registration: A Complete Guide from Zero to Working App
03 Jan Cloudflare Tunnel: Expose localhost for Webhooks and OAuth
2025
20 Dec Adding .NET Aspire to an Existing Clean Architecture Project
06 Dec Building Production-Ready Microservices with .NET Aspire: A Complete E-Commerce Demo
22 Nov Microsoft Ignite 2025: Microsoft Foundry - The Unified Enterprise AI PlatformUpdate
24 Oct Build Custom MCP Catalogs with Docker: Enterprise Control for AI ToolingUpdate
05 Jul .NET Architecture at Scale: Visual Guide to Modern Design Patterns
25 May Streamlining AI Development with LiteLLM Proxy: A Comprehensive Guide
24 May Elevating Code Quality with Custom GitHub Copilot Instructions
24 Apr Building a Comprehensive RAG System: A Deep Dive Into Knowledge Architecture
20 Apr Stretch Tracker: Advanced Technical Architecture and Implementation
14 Jan Simplify Your Workflow: How to Build Custom Commands with the .NET CLI
11 Jan Deploying Ollama with Open WebUI Locally: A Step-by-Step Guide
10 Jan Simplify Git Workflows Across Multiple Repositories with Git Submodules and Meta-Repositories
06 Jan Simplifying Database Queries with AI & SQL Automation
2024
29 Dec Efficient File Management on Azure Blob Storage: CRUD Operations and Upload Strategies
24 Dec Implementing SharePoint File CRUD Operations using Microsoft Graph API
07 Dec Building an AI-Driven Chat Application with .NET, Azure OpenAI, and Angular
01 Dec Validating Inputs with FluentValidation
01 Dec Using Dapper for Data Access and Repository Pattern
01 Dec Unit of Work Pattern and Its Role in Managing Transactions
01 Dec Seeding Initial Data Using Docker Compose and SQL Scripts
01 Dec Implementing AutoMapper for DTO Mapping with Audit Details
01 Dec Implementing Activity Logging with Custom Attributes
01 Dec Handling Authorization and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
01 Dec Error Handling and Exception Management in the API
01 Dec Dockerizing the .NET Core API, Angular and MS SQL Server
01 Dec Dependency Injection Setup Across Layers
01 Dec Clean Architecture: Introduction to the Project Structure
01 Dec Best Practices for Creating and Using DTOs in the API
22 Oct GitHub Codespaces: Streamlining Cloud-Based Development
2023
22 Jul Pushing Docker Image to Docker Hub
22 Jul Pushing Custom Images to Docker Hub Using GitHub Actions