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...
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...