For years, data catalogs have been the "phone books" of the data lakehouse. They list tables, columns, and perhaps a description. But in modern data engineering, a list is not enough. Data engineers and scientists don't just need to find data; they need to understand its lineage, trust its freshn...
In the modern landscape of distributed systems, protecting your infrastructure from abuse while ensuring fair usage among legitimate clients is paramount. Rate limiting is not just a security feature; it is a critical component of availability and stability. This post explores the architectural p...
In the realm of modern software architecture, Dependency Injection (DI) has become the de facto standard for managing object creation and coupling. While implementing DI in a simple monolith is straightforward, managing lifecycles across a distributed system of microservices introduces a layer of...
As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve into multimodal systems capable of processing both text and images, the attack surface for adversarial inputs has expanded exponentially. While traditional prompt injection focuses on manipulating text instructions, a new class of vulnerabilities known as vi...
Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) to production is significantly more complex than serving traditional stateless web applications. The high computational cost, substantial memory footprint, and the inherently stateful nature of generative AI workflows mean that a simple "restart and hope for...
For years, Large Language Models (LLMs) were treated as black boxes that generated text based on probability. While impressive, this approach had a fundamental limitation: they lacked access to real-time data and could not perform actions. Enter Tool Use (also known as Function Calling or Action ...
The democratization of Large Language Models (LLMs) has shifted rapidly from cloud-dependent APIs to local, on-device inference. At the forefront of this movement is llama.cpp, a C/C++ implementation originally designed to run Meta's LLaMA models on Apple Silicon. Today, it stands as the de facto...