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 →Deep Dives into EKS Monitoring and Observability with CDKv2
Running production workloads on Amazon EKS demands more than basic health checks. After managing dozens of Kubernetes clusters across various industries, I’ve learned that the difference between a resilient system and a fragile one often comes down to how deeply you can see into your infrastructure. This guide shares the observability patterns and CDK-based automation […]
Read more →Multi-Modal AI: Building Applications with Vision-Language Models
Introduction: The era of text-only LLMs is ending. Modern vision-language models like GPT-4V, Claude 3, and Gemini can see images, understand diagrams, read documents, and reason about visual content alongside text. This opens entirely new application categories: document understanding, visual Q&A, image-based search, accessibility tools, and creative applications. This guide covers building multi-modal AI applications […]
Read more →Achieving DevOps Harmony: Building and Deploying .NET Applications with AWS Services
The Evolution of .NET Deployment on AWS After two decades of building enterprise applications, I’ve witnessed the transformation of deployment practices from manual FTP uploads to sophisticated CI/CD pipelines. When AWS introduced their native DevOps toolchain, it fundamentally changed how we approach .NET application delivery. The integration between CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, and ECR creates a […]
Read more →LLM Guardrails and Safety: Protecting Your AI Application from Attacks
Introduction: Deploying LLMs in production without guardrails is like driving without seatbelts—it might work fine until it doesn’t. Users will try to jailbreak your system, inject malicious prompts, extract training data, and push your model into generating harmful content. Guardrails are the safety layer between raw LLM capabilities and your users. This guide covers implementing […]
Read more →Prompt Templates and Versioning: Building Maintainable LLM Applications
Introduction: Production LLM applications need structured prompt management—not ad-hoc string concatenation scattered across code. Prompt templates provide reusable, parameterized prompts with consistent formatting. Versioning enables A/B testing, rollbacks, and tracking which prompts produced which results. This guide covers practical prompt template patterns: template engines and variable substitution, prompt registries, version control strategies, A/B testing frameworks, […]
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