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Ryo Hang

Editor-in-Chief, ASCENDING Inc

Ryo leads editorial for ASCENDING Inc’s blog, launched in late 2017 to fill the gap between vendor marketing and analyst paywalls. He edits every piece before publication and writes the quarterly field report. Prior engineering and product work spanned platform teams and AI infrastructure.

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43 articles published on the ASCENDING Blog

GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-21-2026 · 11 min read

Coding Agent Migration Readiness Assessment: Inventory Before You Switch

A coding agent migration is ready to scope only once every tool, config file, MCP server and CI agent is inventoried and classified. Use this to decide.
Cloud Computing 10-17-2026 · 9 min read

Enterprise Support Is Part of Your AWS PPA: Who Can Provide It, and What It Costs You

Enterprise Support comes with a cross-service AWS PPA. See who is authorized to provide it, which credentials to check, and what it costs over a 3-year term.
GenAI 10-13-2026 · 9 min read

Cursor to Claude Code: What Maps and What Does Not

Skills and subagents carry over from Cursor to Claude Code, but hooks need rebuilding and Tab has no equivalent. See each mapping and what to test first.
Cloud Computing 10-12-2026 · 7 min read

Is AWS Enterprise Support Worth It? A Decision Guide by Monthly Spend

Enterprise Support pays off when a TAM and a 15-minute response prevent costly downtime, not by spend alone. Check your AWS bill against four tests.
GenAI · Cloud Computing 10-11-2026 · 9 min read

Governing Claude Code for IT: SSO, Managed Settings and HIPAA

Claude Code is HIPAA-ready on one connection route only. See what the BAA covers, what it excludes, and how IT enforces the route with SSO and policy.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-11-2026 · 7 min read

Is It Safe to Use Public Agent Skills? What the Research Shows

Public agent skills carry measured malware and prompt-injection risk, and scanners miss attacks. Here's how teams can vet skills before anyone installs one.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-08-2026 · 9 min read

What Is a Private Skill Marketplace? A Definition for Enterprise Teams

A private skill marketplace is an access-controlled catalog of AI agent skills. See how it differs from public ones and when your team needs it.
Cloud Computing 10-07-2026 · 9 min read

AWS Partner-Led Support vs AWS Enterprise Support: What Changes and What Stays the Same

AWS partner support can match Enterprise Support's SLA and TAM while changing who you call and who bills you. See what changes and how to compare offers.
Cloud Computing 10-07-2026 · 6 min read

How Much Does AWS Enterprise Support Cost? Worked Examples at Three Spend Levels

Enterprise Support is the greater of $5,000 or tiered 10/7/5/3% of gross AWS charges. See the math at $40K, $250K and $1M a month, and why a PPA won't cut it.
Cloud Computing 10-05-2026 · 8 min read

AWS Support Plans in 2026: Business Support+, Enterprise Support and Unified Operations

AWS now sells three support plans and retires Developer, Business and On-Ramp on 2027-01-01. See how they differ and which fits your workload.
GenAI 10-02-2026 · 9 min read

AI Readiness Checklist: 10 Gates Before Your First Pilot

Use this AI readiness checklist to assess data, access, evaluation, cost and ownership, with evidence requirements and clear gates for an enterprise pilot.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-02-2026 · 8 min read

ChatGPT Enterprise vs Claude Enterprise: A Buyer's Guide

Compare ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise on access, integrations, pricing and deployment, then choose with a practical pilot and procurement checklist.
GenAI · Cloud Computing 10-02-2026 · 9 min read

Claude Code Managed Settings and SSO: An Admin Guide

Deploy Claude Code managed settings with a minimal JSON example, correct OS paths, SSO boundaries, MCP controls, and a practical rollout and rollback plan.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-01-2026 · 9 min read

ChatGPT Connectors vs MCP: An Enterprise Governance Guide

ChatGPT connected apps and MCP are not substitutes. They are different layers. Helps enterprise teams decide when OpenAI connectors suffice and when to add MCP.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 10-01-2026 · 8 min read

Codex Alternatives for Enterprise Engineers

Codex, Claude Code and Copilot are different operating models, not a ranking. Choose by terminal, IDE or GitHub fit, governance and lock-in.
Jarvis AI · GenAI 09-24-2026 · 7 min read

AI Document Classification and Indexing for Healthcare Archives

How a fine-tuned, distilled model sorts scanned referrals, faxes and consent forms into an approved taxonomy, with confidence scores and human-review flags.
Cloud Computing 09-21-2026 · 7 min read

AWS PPA and EDP Negotiation Guide: What to Check Before You Sign

Enterprise Support is mandatory in a cross-service AWS PPA (formerly EDP), and an authorized partner can provide it. Size, scope and negotiate the deal.
Jarvis AI · GenAI 09-17-2026 · 6 min read

Fine-Tuning and Distillation for Healthcare Archive AI: A Practical Playbook

Where fine-tuning and distillation fit next to RAG in healthcare archive AI, with a 5-phase deployment model for classification, metadata and exceptions.
GenAI · Cloud Computing 08-24-2026 · 9 min read

Moveworks vs Glean After ServiceNow: Choosing an Enterprise AI Assistant

Moveworks vs Glean changed after ServiceNow's $2.85B deal. Explore the 6-dimension scorecard and 5-situation framework for enterprise AI assistant buyers.
Jarvis AI · GenAI 08-24-2026 · 9 min read

Jarvis vs Moveworks: An Honest Comparison

Jarvis vs Moveworks from the team that builds Jarvis: see how each side wins across 8 dimensions, from $18K published pricing to MCP gateway support.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 08-24-2026 · 9 min read

MCP vs RAG: Why Enterprise AI Needs Both

MCP vs RAG is a category error: one is a protocol, the other a pattern. See how the two layers compose in enterprise AI and what breaks if you pick only one.
Jarvis AI · Cloud Computing · GenAI 07-27-2026 · 8 min read

Why Multicloud Agentic Workflows Break Across AWS, Azure, GCP

Why multicloud agent orchestration breaks across AWS, Azure, and GCP: identity, networking, and egress controls, and how a governed registry fixes it.
Public Sector · GenAI · Jarvis AI 07-10-2026 · 12 min read

Municipal Permit AI: 5 Capabilities of a Production Platform

Five capabilities municipalities need for production AI permit completeness checks: code grounding, auditability, fast deployment, access, and scale.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 07-09-2026 · 8 min read

Private AI Skill Management for Developer Teams

Private AI skills need more than shared storage. Define who approves updates, test distribution, and separate access removal from deleting downloaded files.
GenAI · Jarvis AI 07-09-2026 · 8 min read

OTEL Observability for AI Agents: Traces, Logs, and Metrics Explained

How OpenTelemetry instruments AI agents: distributed traces for prompt tuning, structured logs for health, and metrics for token usage and latency.
GenAI 04-15-2024 · 4 mins

Navigating the MLOps Landscape: Choosing Your Path

End-to-end MLOps suites from Azure and Google Cloud are fast to adopt; a custom-built tool stack avoids a single point of failure. Compare both paths.
GenAI 04-15-2024 · 4 mins

Crafting Custom AI Solutions: A Success Story

A custom video KPI case study: pseudo-code specs, live working sessions and solution reuse produced a model that doubled the KPI score in trial ad groups.
GenAI 11-21-2023 · 3 mins

MLOps CI/CD Pipeline Automation: From Manual to Automated

A fintech case study moving machine learning from manual scripts to MLOps Level 2: automated training pipelines first, then full CI/CD for model delivery.
GenAI 11-21-2023 · 5 mins

MLOps Explained: Managing the Machine Learning Lifecycle

What MLOps actually solves: managing the machine learning lifecycle from data to production, and the reasons ML and AI projects stall without it.
GenAI 11-08-2023 · 7 mins

Machine Learning Project Costs: Factors, Challenges, Stages

The cost factors that drive machine learning project budgets: data availability, accuracy targets, problem complexity, and the four stages of ML delivery.
Data Analytics 10-12-2023 · 6 mins

Spark on EKS: Broadcast Joins to Cut Shuffle Overhead

Use Spark broadcast joins on Amazon EKS to cut data shuffling and network overhead. When broadcasting helps, when it hurts, and how to size the threshold.
IT Staffing 09-28-2023 · 5 mins

How Inefficient IT Hiring Saps Your Business's Potential

Inefficient IT hiring costs more than salary. The hidden drag of slow recruiting cycles, and staffing strategies that get the right engineers on board.
Data Analytics 09-22-2023 · 9 mins

Spark in Amazon EKS Kubernetes - Partition Optimizations

Optimize Spark partitioning on Amazon EKS. Learn when to use repartition vs partitionBy, how to size partitions, and how to speed up data retrieval.
Data Analytics 09-15-2023 · 5 mins

Spark on EKS: Fix the Union Operator Performance Bottleneck

Eliminate the Spark union operator bottleneck on Amazon EKS. How ASCENDING cut execution time by restructuring unions and reducing redundant scans.
Cloud Computing 09-11-2023 · 4 mins

AWS WAF, Shield, Firewall Manager - Secure Web Apps Just 1-Click

Secure web applications with AWS WAF, Shield, and Firewall Manager. Common web attack vectors and a 1-click CloudFormation deployment to stop them.
Cloud Computing 07-22-2023 · 5 mins

AWS Scale-Out Computing (SOCA): HPC Architecture in the Cloud

How AWS Scale-Out Computing (SOCA) runs HPC workloads in the cloud: scalability, storage, cost control, and security for research and engineering teams.
IT Staffing · GenAI 05-15-2023 · 5 mins

Spotting AI-Assisted Candidates in Technical Interviews

How to spot AI-assisted answers in technical interviews: reading non-verbal cues, adapting your question set, and handling the ethics of AI in hiring.
IT Staffing 04-24-2023 · 7 mins

A Quote of $5k vs $500k - How to Choose the Right IT Vendor

IT vendor quotes for the same project can range from $5K to $500K. Run a scoped proof of concept and break down the cost so your SMB picks a vendor that fits.
Cloud Computing 04-17-2023 · 4 mins

EKS Best Practice - Optimize and Secure Ingress Rule in EKS Cluster

Consolidate Kubernetes Ingress rules onto one ALB with an AWS Load Balancer Controller IngressGroup to cut cost, shrink the attack surface and enforce HTTPS.
Cloud Computing 10-03-2022 · 12 mins

CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild & CloudFormation (Part 1)

Build a CI/CD pipeline with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CloudFormation. Part 1 covers continuous integration and delivery for application teams.
Cloud Computing 10-03-2022 · 12 mins

Continuous Deployment on Kubernetes Platform using AWS CodePipeline

Build continuous deployment to Kubernetes with AWS CodePipeline: build images, store secrets in Parameter Store, and roll new pods onto an EKS cluster.
Cloud Computing 10-03-2022 · 3 mins

Passing Resources in Nested CloudFormation

Pass resources between nested CloudFormation stacks with outputs, parameters and exports, so large templates stay modular, reusable and easy to debug.
Cloud Computing 10-03-2022 · 5 mins

Programmatic CloudFormation Template

Generate CloudFormation templates programmatically with EJS instead of hand-editing YAML, so large AWS stacks stay maintainable and repeatable.

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