Arjun Vijay
Contributing Writer, Explore Agentic
About Arjun
Arjun covers the framework and gateway layer — the parts of the stack a platform team still has to operate long after the quickstart. The AWS Strands Agents piece is the template: what a model-driven agent SDK with 25 million first-year downloads actually commits you to running, how its five multi-agent patterns and MCP tool wiring behave once deployed to AgentCore Runtime at $0.0895 per vCPU-hour, and which of those decisions are hard to reverse in production.
The MCP gateway evaluation work applies the same test to procurement, scoring ten gateways against ten documented criteria and naming five disqualifiers that should end an evaluation early — an audit that ranks Jarvis Registry last rather than first, which is the point of running it. Also reviews the S3 Vectors retrieval work. The question Arjun asks of any framework or gateway is constant: what does week six look like, when the demo is a production service with an on-call rotation.
Pieces written or reviewed by Arjun
4 pieces across insight on this site — 3 written by Arjun and 1 reviewed. A written byline means Arjun researched and drafted the piece; a reviewed byline means Arjun read it against its cited sources and could defend its claims before it published. Every row below is labelled either way.
- Insight · Written AWS Strands Agents: The Model-Driven Agent Framework and What It Commits You to Operating
- Insight · Reviewed Amazon S3 Vectors for Enterprise RAG: When the Cheapest Vector Store Is the Right One
- Insight · Written Building an Eligibility-Verification Agent on MCP: A Reference Architecture from Clearinghouse API to Audit Log
- Insight · Written Best MCP Gateways in 2026: Ten Scored Criteria and Five Disqualifiers
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- Ryo HangEditor-in-Chief
- Alexander GromanContributing Writer
- Kelvin YuContributing Writer
- Soraya ZhengContributing Writer
- Cynthia ZhangContributing Writer
- Tommy TaoContributing Writer
- Chandler BensonContributing Writer
- Elias SaljukiContributing Editor
- Ginny CasuccioContributing Editor
- Gloria Qian ZhangContributing Editor
- Laura Bradley McCoyContributing Writer
- Merve TengizContributing Editor
- Michael CloughEditorial Advisor