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Business as usual or change the narrative? — Musings from Ashnik’s Deputy CEO
Apr 20, 2026 | Ravi Papnoi | 2 min read
As India moves into a new financial year, Ashnik's Deputy CEO Ravi Papnoi shares his perspective on where enterprises truly stand in the GenAI era — and what it will t...
From 200 GB to 1.2 TB: Running Apache NiFi at BFSI Scale and What It Takes
Mar 19, 2026 | Gunveen Bindra | 6 min read
Data doesn't wait. In financial services, that's not a philosophical statement. It's an operational reality. Three months before this pipeline reached its current sca...
AI Is Not Failing Because of Models. It’s Failing Because of Architecture.
Feb 24, 2026 | Ashnik Team | 4 min read
The enterprise AI narrative is dangerously misdirected. Every conference debate circles around model size, inference cost, prompt engineering, agent frameworks. That...
Why SFTP Is a Hidden Operational Risk – And How Enterprises Are Replacing It with Kafka Based File Transfer Platforms
Jan 13, 2026 | Manal Chitre | 5 min read
The incident did not begin with a system outage. It began with a missing file. A routine SFTP transfer—one that had worked reliably for years—quietly failed. The...
Where AI Fits in Marketing Automation, and Where It Should Stop
Jan 13, 2026 | Abhishek Singh Bhadouria | 3 min read
Over the past year, AI has become part of how I approach everyday marketing work. It shows up across content development, SEO thinking, performance analysis, and parts...
OpenTelemetry Collectors: Re-architecting Observability Ingestion for Modern Production Systems
Dec 16, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 5 min read
For years, observability ingestion has been dominated by vendor-specific agents, collectors, and tightly coupled pipelines. Each monitoring platform came with its own ...
The Hidden Infrastructure Convergence of 2025 That Will Reshape 2026
Nov 18, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 4 min read
Infrastructure was supposed to get simpler. Containers would streamline deployments, observability would make systems clearer, and event-driven design would reduce com...
Vector Databases in the Enterprise: Overcoming the 7 Barriers to Adoption
Sep 11, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 4 min read
Vector databases are no longer experimental. They are being evaluated for fraud detection, anomaly detection, semantic search, supply chain optimization, and AI augmen...
The Paradigm Change in Enterprise IT Sales:
Aug 21, 2025 | Ravi Papnoi | 2 min read
With the proliferation and adoption of GenAI, the enterprise selling is taking a different hue. The increased uncertainty due to MFI loan distress in India, along with...