Sidecar vs eBPF Service Mesh: An ADR for 2026 Production Workloads
ADR for sidecar vs eBPF service mesh in 2026 — context, options (Istio Ambient, Cilium Mesh, Linkerd2), trade-offs, consequences, and the decision criteria we settled on.
Q2 2026 Open-Source Embedding Models Benchmark: BGE, GTE, E5, Stella, Nomic
Q2 2026 open-source embedding models benchmarked — BGE-M3, GTE-Qwen2, E5-Mistral, Stella, Nomic on MTEB plus latency, memory, and industrial retrieval tasks.
RAG Over CAD and BOM: Reference Architecture for PLM Knowledge Retrieval
RAG over CAD and BOM data for PLM knowledge retrieval — chunking strategies for engineering drawings, BOM graph embeddings, and a reference architecture proven in 2026 production.
Why Industrial AI Pilots Fail in 2026 — The Data Maturity Problem
Industrial AI pilots are failing at an 80% rate in 2026 — the root cause is not model quality but data maturity. Honest analysis with architecture-level remediation patterns.
OPC UA PubSub over MQTT 5: A Production Implementation Tutorial
Step-by-step OPC UA PubSub over MQTT 5 implementation — DataSetMessage mapping, JSON vs UADP, security profiles, and a working aiomqtt + asyncua tutorial for 2026.
UNS vs Data Mesh vs Data Fabric for Industrial Data (2026)
Unified Namespace vs Data Mesh vs Data Fabric for industrial data in 2026 — semantics, governance, ownership, edge vs cloud, and a decision matrix for OT/IT convergence.
Sparkplug B 3.0 Edge of Network Architecture: Production Reference
Sparkplug B 3.0 edge of network architecture for production IIoT — topic namespaces, primary/secondary hosts, store-and-forward, MQTT 5 mapping, and 2026 deployment patterns.
Azure IoT Akri: Kubernetes Resource Interface Deep Dive (Updated 2026)
Azure IoT Akri turns leaf devices into Kubernetes resources — discovery handlers, brokers, instance lifecycle, and a 2026 production setup walkthrough on AKS Edge Essentials.
Industrial Robotic Systems Architecture: Future Reference (2026)
Industrial robotic systems architecture for 2026 — ROS 2 Jazzy fleets, foundation models for robots, VLA stacks, sim-to-real, and a reference architecture for factories shipping today.
Digital Twin vs Simulation: Architecture Decision Guide (2026)
Digital twin vs simulation — the architectural differences that actually matter, state synchronization, data feedback loops, and a decision matrix for picking the right approach in 2026.