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Healthcare

How We Modernized FDA Drug Reviews During COVID-19: Eliminating 14,000 Pages of Paper

In 2020, I led the middleware integration for the FDA's drug review modernization. Here's how we eliminated 14,000+ pages of physical paper and reduced review times by 70% — during a pandemic.

Apr 22, 202612 min
HealthcareFDAIntegrationCOVID-19
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Healthcare

Lessons from Building Healthcare Interoperability at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Before the FDA, I worked on connecting disconnected EHR systems at the VA using HL7v2 and IBM Integration Bus. The interoperability lessons I learned there shaped everything I've built since.

Apr 21, 202610 min
HealthcareVAHL7Interoperability
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Governance

AI Governance in Regulated Industries: A Practitioner's Framework from FDA to Fortune 100

From building FDA-compliant middleware to designing AI governance frameworks at Salesforce for J&J, Eli Lilly, and AstraZeneca — here's what I've learned about making AI work in regulated environments.

Apr 21, 202614 min
AI GovernanceHealthcareRegulated IndustriesSalesforce
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Protocols

MCP at 97 Million Downloads: What Enterprise Architects Need to Know

MCP has gone from Anthropic experiment to universal standard backed by every major AI lab. Here's what changed, who's driving it, and what it means for your integration strategy.

Apr 20, 202612 min
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Orchestration

The Supervisor-Worker Pattern: How Fortune 500s Actually Deploy Multi-Agent Systems

The dominant orchestration pattern in enterprise AI isn't exotic — it's a supervisor decomposing tasks and delegating to specialized workers. Here's how to implement it.

Apr 18, 202610 min
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Governance

EU AI Act Hits in August 2026: Is Your Agentic Architecture Compliant?

40% of enterprise AI systems have unclear risk classification. With penalties up to €35M, here's your architectural compliance playbook before full enforcement.

Apr 15, 202614 min
EU AI ActGovernanceCompliance
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Protocols

A2A + MCP: The Protocol Stack That Will Replace Enterprise Integration

MCP connects agents to tools. A2A connects agents to agents. Together, they form the protocol stack for the post-API enterprise. Here's how they work together.

Apr 12, 202611 min
A2AMCPIntegration
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Orchestration

LangGraph vs CrewAI vs AutoGen: An Architect's Decision Framework for 2026

With three major frameworks competing for enterprise multi-agent workloads, here's a data-driven comparison covering architecture, performance, cost, and when to choose each.

Apr 8, 202613 min
LangGraphCrewAIAutoGenFrameworks
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Architecture

The Death of the API Gateway (As We Know It)

Traditional API gateways can't handle token metering, prompt sanitization, or agent identity. The gateway isn't dying — it's being reborn for the agentic era.

Apr 5, 20269 min
API GatewayAI GatewayArchitecture
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Governance

Agent Identity Is the New IAM: Why Your Authorization Model Is Broken

OAuth and JWT were designed for humans clicking buttons, not autonomous agents executing thousands of actions per minute. Here's what Dynamic Agent Authorization looks like.

Apr 1, 202611 min
Agent IdentityIAMSecurity
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Strategy

Why 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Cancelled by 2027 — And How to Be in the 60%

Over 40% of agentic AI projects are projected to be cancelled. Here are the six reasons they fail and the playbook for being in the successful majority.

Mar 28, 202610 min
StrategyEnterpriseScaling
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