Sam Naqvi

My Weekly Tech Blip

AI momentum continues to outpace the systems designed to govern it. This week, OpenAI released an experimental model aimed at better understanding AI behavior, a quiet but important shift from capability building to behavior scrutiny. Meanwhile, the U.S. government launched a new “Tech Force” and introduced an AI Talent Act, signaling urgency to compete for […]

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My Weekly Tech Blip – Holiday Shopping vs. Cloud Platform Scalability

Why Cloud Tech Always Wins Guess what? Holiday season is back again. Every year, millions of shoppers flood online stores, and cloud infrastructure behind those storefronts faces its own seasonal stress test. Question is simple; how do major platforms stay online during peak demand, and what does this reveal about scalability for AI and enterprise

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Big Idea for a Holiday Gift That Actually Matters!

🎄 This Christmas, give the gift of clarity, focus, and action! 🎄 Introducing CTRL-ALT-PLANNING & CTRL-ALT-EXECUTE – Your ultimate IT tech duo for anyone who wants to plan smart, act fast, and achieve more in 2026. CTRL-ALT-PLANNING helps you organize your ideas, prioritize what matters, and create a strategy that actually works. CTRL-ALT-EXECUTE shows you

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Consequences if IT Technical Debt Is Ignored

Don’t Ignore “Technical Debt”  If you are an IT executive, TPM, or PM, you’ve likely lived through this scenario: a project is racing toward a hard deadline, pressure from stakeholders is building, budgets are tight, and your engineering team is forced to focus only on bare-minimum deliverables. Deep down, you already know this trade-off, postponing

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My Weekly Tech Blip – Orbiting Data Centers?

Orbiting data centers aren’t just a myth anymore. And since this idea is creeping into real engineering discussions, I took a closer look and wanted to pass along what I found. The fact is that ‘Orbiting data centers’ are an emerging concept being explored by major tech companies such as Google and SpaceX to address

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When a Backlog Becomes More Than a To-Do List

Practical Field Notes Very early in my career, I had my share of confusion around backlogs. My thought process was, are they simply long to-do lists, or something deeper? The answer, I learned, defines how effectively project teams deliver. Backlogs often cause confusion when their purpose, types, and management aren’t clearly understood. In Agile and

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My Weekly Tech Blip – Azure DevOps Hosted Image Retirement Alert (Effective Today)

Attention DevOps teams and Mac/iOS developers: Microsoft retired two major hosted images today, December 4, 2025. macOS-13 hosted image → retired today, December 4, 2025 • Windows-2019 hosted image → retiring December 31, 2025 (after a six-month extension) What this means: Pipelines still running on macOS-13 will start failing immediately. Pipelines using Windows-2019 will continue

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Bridging Ecosystems: What iCloud’s AI Model Means for Cloud Architects PART III

 PART III – My final post closes this short trilogy Having wrapped my short journey exploring iOS and Apple’s subtle AI integration, it’s clear that device-to-cloud intelligence isn’t just a mobile phenomenon. Cloud architects now face the challenge of designing systems that bridge ecosystems, connecting devices, edge, and cloud with AI-driven capabilities that are secure,

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My Weekly Tech Blip

WEEKLY Tech Blip << Nov 24, 2025>> My Tech Blip of this Week Levi’s Taps Microsoft AI for Smarter Operations Levi’s just rolled out a major modernization move by adopting Microsoft’s AI capabilities across its operations. This isn’t a gimmick or a “try-AI-for-PR” moment, this is real, practical deployment inside a global retail giant. The

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