Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI framework that enhances the capability of an LLM to provide answers relevant to a certain domain by referring to a private knowledge base before generating answers. Today, LLMs have fast become the primary source of answers for a wide range of questions that we have on a daily basis. … Continue reading Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
The objective of this article is to understand the AI ecosystem. The series of articles to follow will explore the role each part of the ecosystem plays. This helps increase the adoption of AI in a way that boosts human productivity. In this series of articles, we will talk about various components of AI including: … Continue reading AI Ecosystem – Gen AI models
Achieving Artificial Intelligence involves creating machines capable of human-like thought processes. This endeavor is predicated on the belief that human cognition can be modeled and replicated in non-human entities. In essence, AI assumes that human thought follows logical patterns that are both understandable and reproducible. Philosophy, the discipline dedicated to the study of human thought … Continue reading History of AI
In the world of cloud, object storage is one of the most common use cases. Taking advantage of cheap and practically limitless storage is not only convenient but also very cost effective. This is where Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service comes in handy. But we will explore a feature of OSS which goes beyond just … Continue reading Magic of Real Time Image processing with Alibaba Cloud OSS
With containers and microservices in it, it is easy to get into a situation where you have hundreds of pods spread across many nodes resulting in a difficult task of monitoring what is happening in all those applications and their hosts. Imagine a situation where various microservices are running on pods in different nodes, and … Continue reading Monitoring with Prometheus
IP addresses don’t need any introduction today. We use them so frequently on a daily basis that we don’t even notice them (mostly because of user friendly domain names masking them). But what exactly is an IP address, and how does one decide which address will they get, and who is managing all this worldwide? … Continue reading IP Address – The Basics
Infrastructure as a Code is one of the many buzzwords that took the industry by storm upon the arrival of cloud computing. An extended part of the DevOps philosophy, IaC focuses on automating the creation, maintenance and destruction of infra, predominantly on cloud platform. Consider the scenario where the IT team of an organization receives … Continue reading Infrastructure as a Code (IaaC) with Terraform
For a very long time, organizations have stored information about their applications in databases. This has worked well for decades. Storing information in database eventually forces us to think about information gathering as a subset of an object or a thing. A common example of this would be a ‘user’. We think of information gathering … Continue reading Event Streaming with Apache Kafka
As you dive deeper in the world of containers, microservices and kubernetes, there are more technologies, tools and concepts that come up frequently in the discussion which didn’t exist a few years back. In one conversation on cloud native solutions, you will hear a number of new terms like knative, fluentd, fargate, helm etc and … Continue reading Exploring Service Mesh with Istio
Containers are the new teenagers on the block. With the amount of flexibility in deployment and isolation from the underlying host it brings, containers are now being looked at seriously by many organizations. Many customers that I interact with, are now working on making their applications ‘cloud native’, and shifting workloads from the VM world … Continue reading Kubernetes – The Basics
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