Vinith Raj

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Systems Architecture

Agentic AI Series – Introduction

December 19, 2025 / Leave a Comment

Agentic AI has quickly become one of those terms that carries more weight than clarity. Depending on where you encounter it, it is either framed as the next inevitable step toward autonomous systems or dismissed as unnecessary complexity layered on top of language models. Both views miss the point. Agentic AI is neither magical nor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Agentic AI, Articles, Series, Systems Architecture Tagged: agentic ai, ai agents, ai infrastructure, ai system design, applied ai, distributed systems, llm orchestration, llm systems, microservices architecture, on-prem ai, software orchestration, systems architecture, workflow orchestration

Building a Zero-Code DICOM Ingestion Pipeline with Orthanc

December 15, 2025 / 1 Comment

The Real Problem: Ingestion Is Not the Product In medical imaging platforms, ingestion is often treated as a prerequisite rather than a core problem. Yet teams repeatedly invest months building custom pipelines just to move DICOM files from point A to point B. A typical from-scratch ingestion pipeline ends up requiring filesystem watchers or DICOM … [Read more…]

Posted in: Healthcare Data Architecture, Medical Imaging Infrastructure, Research Computing Infrastructure, Systems Architecture Tagged: Architecture, Data Ingestion Pipeline, Design, DICOM, DICOM Ingestion, Healthcare, Healthcare Infrastructure, Medical Imaging, Orthanc