I built my own low-cost LLM app
Hosting my own chatbot on GCP using open-source LLM Gemma 3, Spring Boot and Angular.
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Full Stack Data Engineering
Building a single-page application that fetches stocks data and displays their performance.
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: reading notes 2/3
Reading through this backend/data engineering classic. Part 2: Distributed Data
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: reading notes 1/3
Reading through this backend/data engineering classic. Part 1: Foundations of Data Systems
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Why quick-sort works
Prooving the correctness of quick-sort algorithms with high-school maths.
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A multi container ML app (3/3): Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
Deploying our 3-container translation app on a Kubernetes cluster to get scalability and resilience.
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A multi container ML app (2/3): deploying with Docker Compose
Now that we have Docker containers, let’s deploy them together with Docker Compose. Also covered: security with Docker secrets, data persistence with Docker volumes and dependency ordering.
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A multi container ML app (1/3): Docker
Building a translation app by putting together 3 containerized microservices: a Flask frontend, a FastAPI backend and a MySQL database. Let’s skim through the development process and the containerization. Also covered: Docker registry and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
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Build a real-time stream of air quality data with Apache Kafka
Let’s build a data stream with Kafka today! We will retrieve air quality data using the World Air Quality Index project’s API, then push it on a Kafka cluster.
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An asymmetric loss for regression models
Drive regression models towards under/overestimation while keeping accurate outputs with the linear-exponential loss.
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