More and more I am designing voice and speech interfaces for AI applications. The way they look and move, as well as the way they sound, plays a big part in how they make the user feel. So I decided to build a little React (and vanilla JS) library called Glasatar (glasatarjs) which turns a…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique that optimises an AI model’s performance by connecting it with external knowledge bases. RAG then helps large language models (LLMs) provide more accurate, relevant, and high-quality responses. Let’s put things into perspective. Imagine someone asked you which planet has the most moons. Thinking back to when one was younger,…
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Last week, I joined Chattingo Mini-Hackathon, and my goal was pretty ambitious: build a complete CI/CD pipeline from scratch. The idea was simple on paper but tough in practice — I wanted an automated workflow that could build, test, and deploy apps straight to production using Docker, Jenkins, and Nginx on a VPS. Here’s how…
Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster on Ubuntu 24.04: A Troubleshooting Journey Or: How I learned that sometimes starting over is the best solution Setting up Kubernetes should be straightforward, right? Well, as I discovered today, reality has other plans. Here’s my troubleshooting journey setting up a two-node Kubernetes cluster on Ubuntu 24.04, complete with all…
Step-01: Introduction Firewall Ingress Rule: Target = Service Account. This allows you to apply firewall rules to all VM instances that run with a specific service account, regardless of tags or names. Useful when managing access based on workload identity instead of static tags. Step-02: Create VM Instance Upload nginx-webserver.sh startup script. #!/bin/bash sudo apt…
hello business world. We’re all familiar with that prompt. And having learned (to some level of expertise) about five computer languages. Granted, some completely forgotten, I’ve written that a lot. I want to make this one short and sweet. I’m not sure how many people reading this will be interested in business or starting their…
Vault is a powerful secrets management tool. Running Vault on Kubernetes in HA mode with Raft backend provides resilience and scalability for secure secrets storage. This guide covers: installing Vault, setting up namespaces, deploying via Helm, joining Vault nodes, unsealing, and troubleshooting common issues. Prerequisites Kubernetes cluster accessible with kubectl Helm 3 installed Sufficient permissions…
