In recent years, the convergence of artificial intelligence, smart homes, and automation protocols has produced one of the most significant developments in modern home technology: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). As AI models become increasingly powerful, so does the demand for methods that allow them to interact intelligently with complex, real-world systems. One such innovation […]
3D Print Life Hacks
In a world increasingly dominated by convenience, speed, and overconsumption, the culture of repair and upcycling is making a strong comeback. At the heart of this movement stands a powerful tool: the 3D printer. Once considered a futuristic luxury, 3D printing has become a practical, accessible, and environmentally responsible solution for millions of makers, hobbyists, […]
Exploring the Top 3 Vector Databases: Weaviate, Milvus, and Qdrant as Semantic Caches for LLM-Based Applications
In the dynamic landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP), the demand for efficient and high-performance vector databases has never been more crucial. These databases serve as the backbone for various applications, including language models (LLMs) that rely on semantic understanding. In this blog post, we delve into three leading vector databases […]
Unlock Efficiency: Slash Costs and Supercharge Performance with Semantic Caching for Your LLM App!
A semantic cache for large language model (LLM) based applications introduces a plethora of advantages that revolutionize their performance and usability. Primarily, it significantly enhances processing speed and responsiveness by storing precomputed representations of frequently used language elements. This minimizes the need for repetitive computations, leading to quicker response times and reduced latency, thereby optimizing […]
Generative AI Email Support Agent
Providing human support engineers to handle incoming queries about products and services can be both costly and limited in its scalability. This is particularly challenging for self-published mobile apps and small to medium-sized businesses, as they often lack the financial resources to offer human support. I personally experienced this issue when I published my own […]
OpenTelemetry: How to Observe a Dockerized Python Service in Google Cloud
Over the last couple of years, OpenTelemetry became the de-facto instrumentation standard for collecting and observing distributed service trace information. OpenTelemetry allows users to add standardized instrumentation code within their applications with the purpose of observing traces, metrics, logs and events independent of service implementation technologies and across all the major cloud vendors. Within this […]
Use Google Cloud Storage in Python to Backup and Load your AI/ML Data
Amazon S3 simple object storage represents the industry standard for cheap storage of large files. All modern cloud vendors do offer S3 alternative services that offer the same access and nearly the same conditions in terms of features and prices. One can say that S3 represents the backbone of modern cloud storages offering a scalable, […]
Observability and the Challenge of detecting Anomalies in High Cardinal Data
Observability and monitoring of software service infrastructure is the basis for modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and to successfully run and scale your IT infrastructure. As the digital transformation of business processes and the shift towards highly dynamic cloud infrastructures keeps on accelerating, the dependency on human operation teams poses a critical bottleneck. Especially with […]
Web Text Scraping and AI Model Training with Streamlit
Within the last weeks, I thought about building a service for automatically answering incoming user questions by using a repository of previously answered questions. The benefit of such an automatic answering system is obvious, but as a foundation for that implementation, a trained text association model is needed. A large corpus of existing texts therefore […]
Combine Dynatrace, Telegraf and SNMP to safeguard a Synology Diskstation
There are many reasons why I think that a Synology Diskstation NAS is a perfect all-in-one private cloud platform. It keeps your precious family photos and documents safely stored in a RAID system and it runs your local services as well as your home automation system. Therefore, my Synology NAS evolved into a critical backbone, […]