Engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and AI systems — Reinhardt van Rooyen, Director of Engineering based in Cape Town.https://rvit.co.zahttps://rvit.co.za/blog/using-ai-to-accelerate-intelligencehttps://rvit.co.za/blog/using-ai-to-accelerate-intelligenceAI is a transformative technology, let's use it to improve ourselves. AI combined with Knowledge tracing will unlock the next evolution in education.Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://rvit.co.za/blog/taming-ai-agents-by-making-them-queuehttps://rvit.co.za/blog/taming-ai-agents-by-making-them-queueDirect API calls work fine for agent prototypes and one-off automations. When agents become core to how your system operates — needing to be observable, comparable, and replaceable without cascading changes — a different integration model is needed. Here's the architectural contract that makes it work.Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rvit.co.za/blog/llm-powered-infrastructure-discovery-awshttps://rvit.co.za/blog/llm-powered-infrastructure-discovery-awsHow we designed and deployed an AI agent using AWS Bedrock to automate EC2 instance selection, achieving 95%+ recommendation accuracy across millions of instance types.Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://rvit.co.za/blog/why-your-cicd-pipeline-is-lying-to-youhttps://rvit.co.za/blog/why-your-cicd-pipeline-is-lying-to-youA fast green build doesn't mean your software is production-ready. Here's what I learned building deployment systems at AWS scale, and how to build pipelines that actually tell the truth.Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT