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Media
TechBullion · Sep 2023

A Decade's Worth of Expertise: How Arun Mishra's Approach Transforms Financial & Business Complexities

Featured on cloud migration challenges in financial services — how legacy systems accumulate technical debt that makes cloud moves genuinely risky, and what it actually takes to move them without data loss or downtime.

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International Business Times (Singapore) · Oct 2023

Enterprise Cloud Architect Elevates Tech Leaders and Scales Businesses with Advanced Software and Cloud Mentoring

Featured on mentorship in software technology — the case for experienced practitioners teaching from lived production experience rather than theory, and what that looks like in practice across 75+ engineers mentored.

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● TechBullion · Jul 2026

Why "Migrate It to the Cloud" Isn't a Strategy: Lessons from an 820M-Record Migration

On what the payment platform migration actually required beyond "move it to the cloud" — sequencing, risk, and the decisions that determine whether a migration succeeds or just relocates the problem.

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Articles

Technical articles covering enterprise architecture, event-driven systems, cloud-native patterns, and applied AI — submitted to peer-reviewed and practitioner publications.

● TDWI · Aug 2026

What Happens When You Let AI Explain a Validation Failure Instead of Just Flagging It

On building a safety gate for ISO 20022 payment files — why the fix for unhelpful validation errors is a separate AI explanation layer, not a smarter error message, and why that layer must never touch the pass/fail decision itself.

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● VentureBeat · Aug 2026

An Eval Harness Found What Qualitative Review Couldn't: AI Models Are Most Confident When Wrong

On the step most teams skip when building LLM-assisted tooling — verifying that what the model says is actually true — and what a structured eval harness catches that manual spot-checking misses.

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● SD Times · Jul 2026

The Refactoring You Keep Deferring Is Not Technical Debt — It's Architecture Risk

On the difference between technical debt (internal to implementation) and architecture risk (structural, determines what a system is capable of) — and why conflating the two gets both mismanaged.

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● Architecture & Governance · Jul 2026

Why Enterprise Architecture Governance Fails Before Implementation

On why most governance failures are decided long before a single line of code is written — and what actually has to change earlier in the process to fix it.

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● NY Weekly · Jul 2026

What an 18-Hour-to-6-Minute Pipeline Rebuild Taught One Enterprise Architect About Risk

On the Kafka pipeline rebuild — what actually broke, why the fix wasn't just a config change, and the risk lessons that generalized well beyond that one system.

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● Built In · Aug 2026

You're Probably Ignoring the Best Use for AI in Software Development

On why AI's biggest value in engineering isn't code generation, but cross-referencing documentation against real system behavior and ranking debugging hypotheses on codebases you didn't build.

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Technical manuscript reviews

Publishers occasionally ask practitioners to technically vet manuscripts before publication — checking that the code, architecture, and real-world claims hold up.

○ Technical Reviewer

Ultimate Cilium and eBPF for Cloud Native Development

Master eBPF and Cilium for unmatched cloud security, performance, and observability in modern cloud environments. Published on Amazon Kindle.

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Ultimate CI/CD for Platform Engineering

Master DevOps pipelines, GitOps, DevSecOps, infrastructure as code, multi-cloud deployment, and AI-driven delivery automation. Published on Amazon Kindle.

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