C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
Designing intelligent systems, one layer at a time. ~ Nithin Mohan T K
Building modern React applications shouldn’t feel like wrestling with complex toolchains. Vite has fundamentally changed how we approach frontend development, offering lightning-fast builds and an exceptional developer experience that enterprise teams are increasingly adopting. Introduction This guide walks you through setting up a production-ready React application using Vite as your build tool. We’ll cover project… Continue reading
In an era where milliseconds of latency can translate to millions in lost revenue, global load balancing has evolved from a nice-to-have to a critical infrastructure component. Azure Front Door represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of delivering applications globally with enterprise-grade security and performance. Having designed global application delivery architectures for over two decades,… Continue reading
The evolution of container orchestration has reached an inflection point where the complexity of managing Kubernetes clusters often overshadows the benefits of containerization itself. Azure Container Apps represents Microsoft’s answer to this challenge, providing a serverless container platform that abstracts away infrastructure management while retaining the flexibility that modern cloud-native applications demand. Having architected numerous… Continue reading
The democratization of software development has been one of the most significant shifts in enterprise technology over the past decade. Microsoft Power Platform represents the culmination of this movement—a suite of low-code tools that enables organizations to build applications, automate workflows, analyze data, and create intelligent agents without traditional programming expertise. After years of implementing… Continue reading
After two decades of building enterprise integration solutions, I’ve watched workflow automation evolve from complex BizTalk orchestrations to elegant cloud-native services. Azure Logic Apps represents Microsoft’s vision for democratizing integration—enabling both citizen developers and seasoned architects to build sophisticated workflows without drowning in infrastructure concerns. This guide explores how to leverage Logic Apps effectively in… Continue reading
Introduction: Google Cloud VPC networking provides the foundation for secure, scalable, and globally distributed cloud architectures. This comprehensive guide explores VPC’s enterprise capabilities, from global VPC design and shared VPC architectures to Private Google Access, Cloud NAT, and zero-trust network security. After designing network architectures for enterprises across all major cloud providers, I’ve found GCP’s… Continue reading
After spending two decades building enterprise applications, I’ve watched countless “revolutionary” technologies come and go. But Azure OpenAI Service represents something genuinely different—a managed platform that brings the power of GPT-4 and other foundation models into the enterprise with the security, compliance, and operational controls that production systems demand. Here’s what I’ve learned from integrating… Continue reading
After two decades of building enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack, I’ve witnessed every major evolution of .NET—from the original Framework through the tumultuous transition to Core, and now to the unified platform that .NET 9 represents. What strikes me most about this release isn’t any single feature, but rather how it crystallizes Microsoft’s vision… Continue reading