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...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Reducing IT costs - A three-pronged strategy

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In today's digital age, IT costs can quickly spiral out of control. To maintain profitability and competitiveness, businesses must proac...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Articulating the business value of IT solutions

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When you're trying to sell an IT solution to your stakeholders, it’s super important to talk about more than just the tech specs. You ne...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Ruminating on JDK builds and versions

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Ever since Oracle changed the licensing of Java in 2019, there has been a lot of confusion in the market. Found the below blog article to be...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Ruminating on DORA regulation

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The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), a new EU regulation, aims to strengthen the cybersecurity and operational resilience of fina...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Ruminating on AWS Fargate Autoscaling

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Amazon Fargate is a serverless compute engine that allows you to run containers without having to provision or manage servers. One of its po...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Ruminating on INVEST principles for user stories

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The User Story, a concise, informal explanation of a desired product or functionality from the user's perspective, is a key component of...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Calculating tokens for words

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For LLM applications, we often use embedding models like ada-002 or davinci models. While using these models, we need to often estimate the ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Database Manager - DBGate

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 If you are looking for a web-based database manager that is open-source and commercial friendly, then please have a look at DBGate: https:/...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

#no-build for JS: Embracing the Era of Import Maps and HTTP/2

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Complex build processes have dominated the web development world for years. JavaScript module bundling, transpiling, and management have bec...
Friday, June 07, 2024

Should we serve JS files from a CDN?

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An excellent article that states why we do not need to actually use a CDN for serve popular JS libraries:   https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/...
Thursday, May 09, 2024

Ruminating on Core Web Vitals

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Have you ever clicked on a webpage only to spend a long time staring at a blank screen? Yes, it is frustrating. That's bad for the webs...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Gaia-X & Catena-X: Data usage governance and Sovereignty

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you must have heard about Gaia-X . The whole premise of Gaia-X was to build a fair and open data e...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Generating synthetic data

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  Faker is an excellent tool for generating mock data for your application. But any complex application would have tens of tables with compl...
Sunday, November 05, 2023

Fine-tuning vs RAG for LLMs

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Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), enabling state-of-the-art performance on a ...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Ruminating on Debezium CDC

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Debezium is a distributed open source platform for change data capture (CDC). It collects real-time changes to database tables and transmits...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Mock data and APIs

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Mocking APIs and synthetic mock data generation are invaluable techniques to speed up development. We recently used the Mockaroo platform an...

Leveraging Graph Databases for Fraud Detection

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 There are many techniques for building Fraud Detection systems. It can be: Rule Based (tribal knowledge codified) Machine Learning (detect ...
Friday, October 06, 2023

Defensive measures for LLM prompts

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To prevent abusive prompts and prompt hacking, we need to leverage certain techniques such as Filtering, Post-Prompting, random enclosures, ...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Ruminating on Clickjacking

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Clickjacking is a sort of cyberattack in which people are tricked into clicking on something they did not plan to click on. This can be acco...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Ruminating on Shadow Testing or Shadow Mirroring

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Shadow testing is a software testing technique that involves sending production traffic to a duplicate or shadow environment. This allows te...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Ruminating on Differential Privacy

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Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical paradigm for protecting individuals' privacy in datasets. By allowing data to be analysed wi...
Thursday, July 20, 2023

Ruminating on nip.io and Let's Encrypt

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nip.io is a free, open-source service that allows you to use wildcard DNS for any IP address. This implies you may build a hostname that re...