C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
Designing intelligent systems, one layer at a time. ~ Nithin Mohan T K
Azure Platform
The first time I watched a generative model produce coherent text from a simple prompt, I knew we had crossed a threshold that would reshape how we build software. After two decades of working with various AI and ML systems, from rule-based expert systems to deep learning pipelines, I can say with confidence that generative […]
Read more →Three months into production, our RAG system started failing at 2AM. Not gracefully—complete outages. The problem wasn’t the models or the embeddings. It was the architecture. After rebuilding it twice, here’s what I learned about building RAG systems that actually work in production. Figure 1: Production RAG Architecture Overview The Night Everything Broke It was […]
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After two decades of managing containerized workloads across production environments, I’ve come to appreciate that the difference between a good Kubernetes deployment and a great one often comes down to how intelligently it responds to changing demand. Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) represents one of those fundamental capabilities that separates reactive operations from proactive infrastructure management. […]
Read more →Last March, a 3AM alert changed everything. Our Pinecone bill had tripled overnight, and I spent the next three months migrating between vector databases, learning hard lessons about what actually matters. Let me share what I discovered—and what I wish someone had told me. Figure 1: Comprehensive comparison of vector database options The Night Everything […]
Read more →Introduction: Google’s Gemini API represents a significant leap in multimodal AI capabilities. Launched in December 2023, Gemini models are natively multimodal, trained from the ground up to understand and generate text, images, audio, and video. With context windows up to 2 million tokens and native Google Search grounding, Gemini offers unique capabilities for building sophisticated […]
Read more →Introduction The rise of DevSecOps has transformed the way organizations develop, deploy, and secure their applications. By integrating security practices into the DevOps process, DevSecOps aims to ensure that applications are secure, compliant, and robust from the start. In this blog post, we will discuss the key metrics for measuring the success of your DevSecOps […]
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