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The reference architecture that keeps repeating across sectors, the protocols and AI gateways that glue it together, how the emphasis changes by industry, a complete worked example for an insurer on Azure, and LLMOps and DLOps.

AI & LLMs

Companion piece to my AI Infrastructure guide and 'AI 2026–2030: Bubble or Golden Era'. 💸 Everyone talks about what frontier models can do. Almost nobody talks about what they cost to build. Today: the real numbers —…

AI & LLMs

Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT , Perplexity , and Gemini have become ubiquitous, fundamentally transforming the modern technological landscape. Across industries, enterprises are deploying AI at an unprecedented…

AI & LLMs

Over the past decade, since the arrival of BERT -like models in 2018–2019, I have closely followed the evolution of AI frameworks, model architectures, and the underlying hardware that enables them. During that time,…

AI & LLMs

In this post we are going to see how to use the Llamaindex Python library

AI & LLMs

In this post we are going to see how to use the Llamaindex Python library to build our own RAG. We well be ingesting finance literacy books in form of pdf and epub in a Vector index. In the second part, we ll be exposing

AI & LLMs

Kustomize: lightweight parametrization of your Kubernetes manifests In this post we are going to see how to install Kustomize in a straightforward way in a bare metal server and explain what s its relationship with Kuber

DevOps & CI/CD

Configure Jenkins to work with Gitlab, Docker and Skaffold In today s post we are going to see how to install Jenkins in a straightforward way in a bare metal server and explain what s the function of Jenkins in a GitOps

DevOps & CI/CD

Install ArgoCD in 3 minutes and learn GitOps In today s post we are going to see how to install ArgoCD in a straightforward way and explain what s the function of ArgoCD in a GitOps setup. First we ll be going though a t

KubernetesDevOps & CI/CD

K3s etcd backups and snapshots explained In today s world of technology, ensuring data protection and business continuity is more important than ever before. This is especially true for Kubernetes environments, where the

Kubernetes

Install K3s, Prometheus and Grafana in 5 minutes I m excited to announce that I will be creating a tutorial on how to install k3s with Prometheus and Grafana. As you may already know, setting up and configuring these too

Kubernetes

Add Safety to your Ansible Automations Using Ansible for automation really makes the work of systems administrators scalable as it gives to the sysadmin the power to launch sets of commands on groups of machines. While s

DevOps & CI/CD

Applying Data Mesh for Fintech Industry (Part1) If you are working in the area of data and specially if you are a data engineer or data architect you probably have heard about Data Mesh as a paradigm shift or improvement

Data & Streaming

Streaming in Confluent KsqlDB: Modifying AVRO Schema In the context of streaming applications Kafka has been a very used technology to solve real time and exactly-once-processing problems by many big and medium companies

Data & Streaming

Microbatch ingestion using Spark Streaming and Cassandra In this post you ll learn how to ingest data files in near real time using Spark Structured Streaming framework and storing them in Cassandra database. Spark Struc

Data & Streaming

Processing a stream of events with Kafka and Flink Dear reader, in this post you ll learn how to deploy a Kafka cluster and a Flink cluster. You ll also learn how to make a simple application in Flink to process a stream

Data & Streaming

Machine Learning Model Deployment in Azure Introduction It is very common that the machine learning (ML) models are developed locally. Specially when de task is done within a small data scientists group. However, to allo

AI & LLMs

Spark cluster with Airflow on Kubernetes Architecture diagram In this tutorial Kubernetes will be used to create a Spark cluster from which parallel jobs will be launched. The launch of the jobs won t be done directly th

KubernetesDevOps & CI/CDData & Streaming

Presto Cluster on Kubernetes This tutorial is the continuation of the tutorial Data Federation with Presto on Docker. After having acquired some understanding and experience of Docker now it is turn to deploy these Docke

KubernetesData & Streaming

Data Federation with Presto on Docker Introduction This post is about describing how to set a Presto installation in the form of a cluster on top of Docker containers. On the process of setting up the cluster several use

Data & Streaming

Online Platform for Clinical and Molecular data Retrieval Introduction This post is about describing a technologies stack used in a project aimed to create an online platform for clinical and molecular data retrieval. Th

KubernetesData & Streaming