Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Apache Arrow vs Apache Iceberg

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Many folks get confused between these two similar open standards; as both of them are used for columnar data.  Apache Arrow defines how data...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Ruminating on Mutuals

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If you have ever opened a savings account, taken out a mortgage, or looked into health insurance in the UK, you have likely come across name...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

How to Slash AI Token Costs by 80%? - by using LiteLLM as an Intelligent Router

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As AI features scale in production, engineering teams inevitably hit a financial wall: token expenses. Defaulting to frontier models for eve...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Ruminating on Agent Skills

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 The best place to understand agent skills is through the official open standard website -  https://agentskills.io/home . This site gives a ...
Monday, May 11, 2026

Ruminating on Human in the Loop (HITL) vs Human on the Loop (HOTL)

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 As AI systems become more embedded in enterprise workflows, the conversation is no longer just about capability—it’s about control. Two mod...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Split before data pre-processing or after?

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In machine learning workflows, the standard practice is to split datasets into training and testing subsets before applying most preprocessi...

Ruminating on target leakage in ML models

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Target leakage is a type of data leakage where training data includes info directly tied to the outcome (target variable), but that info wou...
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Azure tenant to tenant migration

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Migrating cloud workloads across Microsoft Azure tenants is essential during business changes like acquisitions or divestitures. The process...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Dataspaces, Gaia-X and Simpl Middleware

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In today’s digital economy, data is a powerful resource that drives innovation, economic growth, and improved public services. Recognizing t...

Ruminating on 'Service as Software'

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The evolution of Agentic AI has ushered in a new paradigm called 'Service as Software'. The following article lays down the core con...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Ruminating on Sovereign Cloud Security Certifications

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Different countries have developed their own cloud security standards to help businesses pick trustworthy providers. Two important European ...
Saturday, October 04, 2025

Ruminating on zero-code instumentation and monkey patching for Python

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Zero-code instrumentation for Python applications enables automatic monitoring and telemetry collection without requiring any changes to the...
Monday, September 22, 2025

Ruminating on Parquet, Delta Lake and Iceberg

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In this blogpost, I shall try to demystify some of the concepts around Parquet, Delta Lake and Iceberg in three easy learning steps. Step 1:...
Thursday, September 04, 2025

JSON-RPC vs REST and why JSON-RPC is used in MCP?

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I was going down the rabbit hole of MCP protocol details and realised that it was using JSON-RPC instead of REST.  JSON-RPC is a simple prot...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Steps for training a custom document extraction model on Azure AI

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Given below is a step-by-step guide on how to use bounding boxes to train custom document models in Azure Vision + Document AI : Step 1: Pre...

Ruminating on the .well-known path in URLs

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The .well-known path is a reserved directory at the root of a website’s domain (e.g., https://example.com/.well-known/).  It serves as a st...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Ruminating on FastAPI’s Speed and how to scale it with multiple Uvicorn workers

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Python’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) often raises questions about concurrency and performance, especially for web frameworks like FastAPI....
Friday, July 04, 2025

Ruminating on Continued Pre-Training and Fine-Tuning of LLMs

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In my previous blogpost , we discussed about the differences between RAG and Fine-Tuning. Besides fine-tuning, there is another technique ca...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Securing and validating JWT tokens

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JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) are widely used for authentication and authorization in web applications. However, securely storing JWTs on the clien...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Ruminating on "Zero ETL"

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Traditional ETL workflows consist of three separate stages:  Extracting data from source systems Transforming it to fit analytical needs Loa...
Friday, March 28, 2025

Ruminating on AI Security

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Artificial intelligence has evolved from a distant vision into a transformative force reshaping industries and daily life. Yet, alongside it...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

What is an "AI Factory"?

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 "AI Factory" is a metaphor for a scalable and industralized approach for building and deploying AI solutions in the enterprise.  ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Ruminating on Data Mesh and Data-as-a-Product

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In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, organizations are constantly looking for better ways to handle the massive amounts of data they ge...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Crafting an AI strategy for the enterprise

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AI has emerged as a pivotal force for enterprise transformation, offering avenues to reduce operational costs, enhance service delivery, imp...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Ruminating on Standardizing Data

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In the realm of statistics, we frequently face datasets of varied sizes and units. This might make it difficult to compare variables or use ...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Top 5 GenAI usecases in the industry

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There are hundreds of GenAI usecases in the market today. But if we were to summarize them under some common themes, then the following five...