Navigating Agentic AI Reasoning: ReAct vs. ReWOO In the evolving world of generative AI, agentic AI systems are gaining prominence for their ability to perform tasks, make decisions, and interact with their environments autonomously. Two popular approaches to implementing agentic AI reasoning are ReAct (Reasoning Acting) and ReWOO (Reasoning Without...

Meditation on Backwards Compatibility Product versioning teaches us some unique lessons on software design. While it reinforces some important practices–such as using layers (repository, service, business, etc)–to organize functional pieces, some best practices make versioning more complicated. For example, “Don’t Repeat Yourself” means that multiple versions of the product will...

A Feedback Formula for Success If you are like me, giving feedback doesn’t come naturally to you. I have been in search of tips and tricks to help me structure feedback in a way that was clear and valuable to the recipient. After many years of research and practice, I...

Introduction At Source Allies, we have a variety of internal services for managing Teammates. Many of the services’ data are related to one other and each consumer needs a different subset of this information. Consumers need to contact a variety of services and process the information before it is usable....

Over my career as a software engineer, I’ve worked with numerous engineers with varying levels of experience and influence. The ones I looked up to and wanted to follow in their steps were what I like to call the Samaritan Senior Software Engineers, or Samaritans for short, who truly lived...

As holders of the Migration Consulting Competency from AWS, we are often deeply involved in cloud migration projects. We recently tackled a seemingly straight forward migration of an on-premise Postgres database to AWS Aurora. This database was a data warehouse that was shared by many teams and contained more than...

Deployments So far we’ve been deploying pods directly. This has been a great way to gain familiarity with Kubernetes, but typically, we’ll rely on some other workload resource to create our pods for us. In this section, we’ll look at the Deployment resource. Creating a deployment isn’t too different from...

Pod Communication Our “applications” haven’t been too exciting so far. We’ve created some nginx pods and sent a few HTTP requests, but these pods aren’t talking to each other. Kubernetes complements a microservice architecture, but even if you follow a monolithic application design approach, we can anticipate there will be...

Namespaces We’ve only created one pod so far. Kubernetes wouldn’t be very special if we could only run one pod, so let’s try running multiple pods. $ kubectl run app-1 --image=nginx:1.24 pod/app-1 created $ kubectl run app-2 --image=nginx:1.24 pod/app-2 created $ kubectl run app-3 --image=nginx:1.24 pod/app-3 created It seems like...

Introduction Kubernetes is a divisive topic in the world of software development. There seems to be an ardent following of both promoters and detractors. For some, Kubernetes is a herald to the upcoming golden age of cloud native software. We are on the cusp of reveling in workloads and infrastructure...