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Last week, I participated in an internal AI hackathon at Centric Consulting, focused on building an AI-powered insurance claim triage system. The challenge was based on a fictional scenario involving Censurance, a hypothetical insurance company. The hackathon brought together developers, engineers, and AI enthusiasts from across our organization to tackle... [Read More]

Event-driven Architecture (EDA) is a paradigm shift in designing and building systems that respond to events or changes in the state of an object. As more of these systems come online, understanding EDA terminology and implementation patterns becomes increasingly important for architects and developers. This blog post aims to clarify... [Read More]

As organizations increasingly recognize the value of artificial intelligence, the challenge shifts from theoretical discussions to practical integration. How can we embed AI into an established architecture without starting from scratch? This post explores common architectural design patterns and integration strategies that can help your business leverage AI to enhance... [Read More]

Distributed systems are powerful and help us address many problems but they often introduce others. Ensuring transactional continuity in multi-step processes are particularly difficult challenges. One that comes up a lot for me (for instance) is updating a database and publishing an event to a event stream simultaneously. This can... [Read More]