AnovaCloud Engineering Brief

What it covers

Written by architects, for architects

• Pattern deep-dives — the tradeoffs behind our architecture patterns, with diagrams
• Production notes — what breaks in RAG, agents, lakehouses, and migrations, and how we fix it
• Eval & governance — measuring AI systems honestly, from golden sets to red-teaming
• Blueprint releases — new reference architectures as we publish them
• No vendor pitches — we write about technology, not partnerships

Cadence

Monthly, first Tuesday. Occasional extra edition when we publish something substantial — never more than two a month. Unsubscribe anytime; we never share your address.

Sample topics

• RAG retrieval failures: a field guide to chunking and reranking
• PostgreSQL operations for SQL Server DBAs: the 20% that matters
• Data contracts without the bureaucracy
• CDC exactly-once: idempotent sinks and the myth of perfect delivery
• LLM judges: calibration before trust