Ankur Kumar

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📝 A Techie, Blogger, Educator & Mentor 🖥️ Shares Learnings on Cloud, GenAI, Platform Engineering, Microservices, DevOps, Data Engineering 💙 Loved Husband, Proud Dad 💡 Founder Vedcraft.com - a platform for enabling Cloud, GenAI 🎯 Sports🏎️ 🎾 🏏🏒, Loves ☕🎦📘

Java/Python Developer to AI Engineer Learning Path 👇 1️⃣ Agentic AI Framework: LangGraph / CrewAI / PydanticAI / Google ADK 2️⃣ Memory Management: Focus on understanding the concepts of short-term and long-term memory 3️⃣ Agentic RAG 4️⃣ Observability for Agents vedcraft.com/learning-pat...

Java/Python Developer to AI Engineer - Vedcraft

A seven-stage learning path from Java or Python developer to AI engineer — model foundations, context engineering, RAG, agents, evals and production.

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Created a Reference Architecture Center for Agentic AI, Cloud, Data and Platform Engineering consolidating across diverse disciplines 👇 1️⃣ Agentic AI Enterprise Data & Analytics Platform 2️⃣ Cloud-Native Core Banking Platform 3️⃣ Enterprise Agentic RAG Platform and more. vedcraft.com/architecture...

Maturity Model for Agentic AI Adoption by Claude Team 👇 0️⃣Gated: access to AI tools is gated or process-heavy 1️⃣ Assisted: One engineer, one agent, mostly supervised—a fast pair programmer 2️⃣ Parallel: One engineer orchestrates 5–10 agents at once, each on its own worktree or git checkout.

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As anticipated, Q4 ‘25 & Q1 ‘26 witnessed consolidation of AI-first companies 👇 1️⃣ Manus acquisition by Meta, accelerating its development of autonomous coding AI agents 2️⃣ OpenAI hires OpenClaw creator Peter (beating much anticipated Anthropic offer), consolidation of personal AI Agents #AgenticAI

That’s a great news for Open Source towards establishing common standards and technologies as a community - The Linux Foundation launched Agentic AI Foundation (aaif.io) joined by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cloudflare, Bloomberg, and Block 👇

AI Bits - Anatomy of an AI Agent 👇 1️⃣Sensors & Perception Layer: Information about the environment, agent interacts with environment with sensors 2️⃣ Knowledge Base (aka the “Memory”) and Feedback Mechanism

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AI Bits #1 - In the midst of ROI for AI, Oracle’s stock rally of 35% in a single day surprised the market today indicating👇 1️⃣AI infrastructure demand will continue to drive the market growth - Oracle’s earnings report revealed a massive 359% increase in remaining performance obligations to $455B

Understanding the AI Economy to maximize the ROI focusing on novel metrics in current dynamics (Cost-effective Tokens are the new economic tools - synergyzing plan from Cloud Providers or your own Data Centers) 🧵

Interesting findings from the Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey 👇 🎯 Privacy, pricing & better alternatives are top reasons devs turn their back on a tech 📈 69% of AI agent users agree AI agents have increased productivity 📉 A majority of developers don't use AI agents survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

The 2025 Developer Survey is the definitive report on the state of software development. In its fifteenth year, Stack Overflow received over 49,000+ responses from 177 countries across 62 questions fo...

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Gartner Technology Adoption Roadmap (‘25) for Midsize Enterprises - leverage it for planning & assessing technology strategy and roadmap for your organization 👇 ✅ AI, data & analytics: GenAI, Data fabric, CDS, Metadata Management, Augmented & Prescriptive Analytics, Data Observability

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Databricks Summit 2025 Key Launches 👇 1️⃣ Agent Bricks: Auto-optimizing agents for domain tasks (Agent SDK + MCP) 2️⃣ Lakebase: fully-managed Postgres database integrated with the lakehouse and built for AI after Neon acquisition