Imagine you're an executive at a fast-growing startup, scrambling to prepare for an imminent board meeting. As usual, you forgot to prepare, and the calendar alert just reminded you 30 minutes before the meeting starts. In a panic, you quickly…

What are LLM Context Limits and How to Overcome Them? LLMs like GPT have changed how we think about AI, providing insights and generating text based on the context provided by extensive training data. However, these models have a limitation known as…

Introduction: The Task As a founding engineer at Truewind (YC 23) - AI powered accounting software, I was tasked with developing a proof of concept (POC) for a public company. The project involved creating a chat assistant that leverages a collection…

Background In a home server setup with multiple nodes, streamlined management is essential. Enterprise-grade solutions like iDRAC offer advanced remote management features, but these simply don't exist in consumer-grade servers. This absence made…

Some of you know I run a YouTube channel covering on premises hosting and homelab. Over time, my raw video footage has really grown in size, now exceeding a whopping 4 Terabytes. To manage this deluge of data, I recently embarked on a mission to…

The Problem: The High Cost of Cloud Computing and non-existent inventory As the administrator of Headbot, a generative AI project that creates personalised AI avatars, I found myself grappling with the exorbitant costs and limitations of cloud-based…

The Problem Software, akin to a car, depends on components (dependencies) that require consistent upkeep. Unlike a car, though, software must often be updated without interruption, a process comparable to performing maintenance on a car engine while…

Background Last weekend, my home Kubernetes cluster blew up. I was running a 6-node cluster for some extensive workloads for coderone (ai game tournament) and headbot (generative ai avatars), and suddenly, things went south. Here's my journey from…

The Problem I've been managing production services in my home lab, including running manual backups. This weekend, I decided to automate backups for my MongoDB in Kubernetes. This would not only save me time and protect my data but also offer me an…

Introduction This article is about end-to-end encryption and more specifically “secure key exchange”. You use it all the time, including to read this article. It’s used in the secure launch of a nuclear strike, in the banking system or even when you…

Introduction I've created this tutorial especially for those who might not consider themselves to be too technical—marketers, salespeople, recruiters—really, anyone who's ever dreamed of having their own website. You won't need to navigate technical…

Problem As some of you may know I’ve been running my in-home on premises server for the last 6 years. Originally that was accomplished through a single-node micro k8s kubernetes cluster. However due to increased workloads I had to expand to a multi…