January 2026

Agentic Frameworks in 2026: What Actually Works in Production

Six months ago, picking an agent framework felt like choosing a JavaScript framework in 2016 – new options every week, each claiming to be the production-ready one, none with enough real-world mileage to prove it. That changed faster than expected. LangGraph reached 1.0 in October 2025, CrewAI passed 450 million processed workflows, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore […]

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AWS Optimization in 2026: Graviton4, Lambda Managed Instances, and the New Cost Playbook

A team I advise spent three months migrating their Java microservices to Graviton3. They finished in November 2025. Two weeks later, AWS announced Graviton4 with 30% better compute performance. Their reaction was predictable. But when we looked at the numbers, the real optimization opportunity wasn’t the chip upgrade at all. It was the combination of

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Building Phone Call Agents on AWS With Nova 2 Sonic

If you want to build a production-grade voice agent, there are some things you will need: A way to connect phone networks. Speech-to-text processing. Understanding requests and executing actions. Text-to-speech output. Observability so it’s not a black box. The hard part is not any single component. Managing voice streams, converting speech to text for processing,

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Defense-in-Depth for Healthcare AI: Evaluating Architectural Approaches for Safety and Compliance

Your healthcare AI chatbot passed security review. It has Amazon Bedrock guardrails configured to block PII and sensitive medical topics. The web client connects directly to the Bedrock runtime endpoint. Everything works in testing. Then a patient asks: “I’m John Smith, SSN 123–45–6789, and I have stage 4 pancreatic cancer. What are my treatment options?”

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