04 November 2024
Lua's syntax is relatively straightforward that why it has become the preferred language for Neovim configuration and plugin development. In this series i will go through Lua basics and the Neovim Lua API.
25 September 2024
A while ago, I came across this a nice load testing tool called k6. It's an open-source project developed by Grafana Labs that lets developers easily test the performance of their APIs, websites, and microservices.
24 September 2024
Distributed Tracing is a technique to keep track of requests as they flow from the frontend layers through a complex distributed backend systems, Mainly those built in a microservices architecture.
13 September 2024
In this article we explain different ways to split a long document into smaller chunks that can fit into your model's context window. LangChain has a number of built-in transformers that make it easy to split, combine, filter, and otherwise manipulate documents.
18 August 2024
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. It enhances the large language models (LLMs) by integrating them with external data sources. This allows LLMs to generate more accurate and relevant responses by providing it with information from databases or knowledge bases, rather than relying on their pre-trained data.
10 July 2024
Here is the four metrics supported by Prometheus, along with their use cases and functions that can be used to query these metric types.
21 June 2024
Echo golang framework supports Prometheus Metrics middleware, but the middleware itself doesn't support authentication. We can use the basic authentication middleware to secure the metrics endpoint.
07 June 2024
Early returns is often employed to exit a function as soon as an exceptional or negative condition is met. It won't take much time when learning elixir to figure out that early returns are missing!
06 June 2024
Today I just finished migrating my personal website from WordPress to Jekyll after running it for over 10 years (since 2010). It was a long journey - first hosted on GoDaddy's shared hosting with PHP 5.3, then upgraded to PHP 5.6. I moved it to DigitalOcean to get on PHP 7, and about 3 years ago, shifted it to Google Cloud. Today, I updated the DNS to GitHub Pages and took down the Google Cloud Server.
01 May 2024
Python ships with an extensive set of data structures in its standard library. I will cover most of them in this guide.
