AJAkash Jaininblog.akashja.in·Apr 12 · 17 min readData Virtualisation: Reshaping How Enterprises Access DataData has always been the lifeblood of enterprise decision-making. But for decades, getting that data to the right person, at the right time, in the right format has been a costly, fragile, and frustra00
AJAkash Jaininblog.akashja.in·Oct 9, 2025 · 6 min readWould you let the LLM take the wheel?A practical, friendly guide to User-Orchestrated vs LLM-Orchestrated agent workflows Agents are a bit like actors on a stage. Somebody — or something — has to call “Action!”, cue the right lines, and decide when the show ends. In modern AI architectu...00
AJAkash Jaininblog.akashja.in·Sep 29, 2025 · 6 min readGraph RAG: Beyond Vector Search in Retrieval-Augmented GenerationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has quickly become one of the most powerful techniques for grounding large language models (LLMs). Instead of expecting the model to “know everything,” we feed it relevant external knowledge retrieved at query tim...00
AJAkash Jaininblog.akashja.in·Jun 30, 2025 · 4 min readFrom ActiveMQ to Kafka: My Journey to Understanding Why We Still Need Queues (KIP-932)Nine years ago, my amazing former boss and mentor Ajith Kumar, asked me to do an impact analysis on replacing ActiveMQ with Kafka in our integration layer. It was part of a broader product overhaul. We took the plunge and adopted Kafka across the sta...00
AJAkash Jaininblog.akashja.in·Jun 1, 2025 · 8 min readWrite -> Audit -> Publish (WAP) pattern with IcebergEver Heard of "Garbage In, Garbage Out?" Yeah, it's pretty much the golden rule of data. If your data's a mess, your insights will be too. And with the world increasingly relying on AI, this becomes more important than ever. That's why the Write, Aud...00
