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Alain Airom

Jan 2

Applying Sidecar 🏎️ pattern to OpenLLMetry using Bob!

#bob #projectbob #openllmetry #observability

13 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 26 '25

Docling + Go + Bob: The Modern Document Stack

#bob #projectbob #docling #documentprocessing

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16 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 20 '25

Return of “One Tool, Many Brains: Building a Multi-Model DevOps Architect”

#bob #projectbob #softwaredevelopment #devops

11 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 19 '25

⚙️ One Tool, Many Brains: Building a Multi-Model DevOps Architect

#devops #terraform #k8s #llm

7 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 18 '25

When I ask Bob to build a Project with CUGA!

#cuga #bob #projectbob #aiagents

7 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 17 '25

The Power of Bob: A Masterclass in Execution

#bob #projectbob #docling #agents

10 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 14 '25

Finally honored to meet Bob

#bob #projectbob #ide #devops

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11 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 13 '25

My hands-on experience with Qdrant and Docling (and Ollama)

#qdrant #rag #docling #granite

11 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 13 '25

Comparing HashiCorp Packer with Docker! Does it even make sens?

#ansible #vault #packer #docker

9 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 8 '25

PDF Power-Up: Merge, Reorder, and Decrypt PDFs with a Local Python App

#pdf #pdfmerging #python #opensource

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 7 '25

AI Governance: A Manning Book Review, compared with IBM’s PoV and more!

#aigivernance #bookreview #grc #watsonx

7 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 7 '25

Update of “Fun project of the week, Mermaid flowcharts generator!” — V2 and more…

#mermaid #ollama #opensource #python

10 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 5 '25

From Theory to Practice: Demystifying the Key-Value Cache in Modern LLMs

#llms #kvcache

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7 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 2 '25

How to Use Vanna.ai to Query Your Database with Open-Source Language Models

#vannaai #granite #gptoss #text2sql

14 min read

Alain Airom

Dec 1 '25

💻 Unlock RAG-Anything’s Power with Ollama on Your Machine (with Docling as Bonus)

#rag #ollama #docling #mineru

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8 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 28 '25

Transforming Code into AI Power: Creating a watsonx Orchestrate Tool in Python

#watsonx #watsonxorchestrate #googledrive #gcp

12 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 27 '25

Run Big LLMs on Small GPUs: A Hands-On Guide to 4-bit Quantization and QLoRA

#huggingface #fp4 #qlora #llms

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13 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 24 '25

Quack into Action! Building Brilliant Agents with Docling-Agent & mellea

#doclingagent #mellea #agents #agenticai

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8 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 21 '25

Shrinking Giants: A Word on Floating-Point Precision in LLM Domain for Faster, Cheaper Models

#floatingpoints #fp4 #fp16 #llm

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Alain Airom

Nov 21 '25

Testing the Unofficial Docling Hierarchical PDF Processor

#docling #pdf #documentprocessing

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 19 '25

The Next Generation of Privacy: Using Docling & GLiNER’s Advanced NER to Masterfully Detect and Obfuscate PII

#ner #gliner #pii #docling

23 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 17 '25

The DLM Advantage: Precision, Parallelism, and Control (and a simple test)

#dlm #llm #generativeai

8 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 12 '25

Setting up Linagora’s OpenRAG locally

#linagora #rag #openrag

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6 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 10 '25

Pros and Cons using containerized Ollama vs. local setup for Generative AI Applications

#ollama #containerization #podman #docker

6 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 8 '25

Book review: “Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)”

#llm #deepseek #bookreview

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12 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 5 '25

Meeting “mellea” !!!

#mellea #ollama #generativeprogramming #llms

10 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 5 '25

Building Custom Components in Langflow 🛠️

#langflow #python #mcp #agentic

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12 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 3 '25

Official Native Java Support for Docling: Building Better Apps Just Got Easier

#docling #java #rag #documentingestion

4 min read

Alain Airom

Nov 2 '25

Using “ibm-granite/granite-speech-3.3–8b” 🪨 for ASR

#granite #speech #asr #huggingface

9 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 30 '25

The Case of the Invisible Container: Fixing the ErrImageNeverPull Loop

#podman #docker #kubernetes #minikube

8 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 30 '25

🤖 Introducing ALTK, the open-source agent lifecycle toolkit

#altk #opensource #agents #agenticai

6 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 29 '25

🪨 IBM Granite 4.0-Nano

#granite #ollama #huggingface #llm

6 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 29 '25

☕ Seamless AI Document Processing: Integrating Docling into Java with the Arconia-io Framework

#arconia #springboot #docling #documentprocessing

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Alain Airom

Oct 27 '25

🍥 Hands-on Experience with LightRAG

#lightrag #rag #chunking #embedding

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27 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 24 '25

Using Chonkie

#chonkie #ollama #milvus #docling

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 22 '25

Markdown Remote Image Downloader

#markdown #c #go #python

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 22 '25

📯Introducing CUGA

#cuga #opensource #agents #react

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6 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 20 '25

Beyond Basic Chunks: Supercharge Your RAG with Docling and OpenSearch

#docling #opensearch #rag

9 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 19 '25

A first Experience with LLaMA.CPP

#llamacpp #llm #huggingface #gguf

5 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 17 '25

Second Experience with Apple Containers!

#containers #containerization #apple

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4 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 17 '25

Testing qwen3-vl… quite impressive!

#qwen #ollama #vlm

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 10 '25

Implementing a Basic MCP Server and Two Communicating Agents in Python

#mcp #agents

19 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 6 '25

Information Extraction (Tests on a Beta API) from Docling

#docling #data #dataextraction #datapreparation

5 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 5 '25

Mixture of Experts Implementation using Granite4: Harnessing Specialization with the Latest Granite Family Model

#granite #ollama #llm #moe

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11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 3 '25

🪨 ‘Granite 4’ Meets ‘Kubectl-AI’: Building Your Own Local, Executable Kubernetes Assistant

#granite #google #kubernetes #ollama

15 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 2 '25

The Secret to Efficient RAG: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chunking and Counting Your Vectors

#rag #tokens #vectorization #chunking

11 min read

Alain Airom

Oct 1 '25

Embedded Intelligence: How SQLite-vec Delivers Fast, Local Vector Search for AI.

#sqlite #sqlitevec #rag #vectordatabase

7 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 29 '25

Decoding AI’s Inner Language: How to Test Your Embedding Models

#ollama #embedding #granite #google

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13 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 27 '25

Testing Ollama Web Search 🔍 and a Thinking Model 💭

#ollama #reasoning #llm #opensource

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14 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 24 '25

Kubernetes Security Book (2nd Edition) — A Synthesis

#kubernetes #cloudnative #security #containers

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 24 '25

Introducing a Game-Changer: Docling and IBM Cloud Code Engine Join Forces

#serverless #ai #docling #codeengine

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5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 22 '25

Unlock Your Data: Supercharge Excel Document Processing with Docling

#docling #rag #documentconversion #opensource

9 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 21 '25

My very first hands-on epxerience with Langflow

#lanflow #datastax #ibm #agents

4 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 19 '25

Unlocking Insights: Monitoring Your Apps with Grafana & Prometheus (and Why LLMs Need It Too!)

#observability #grafana #prometheus #llm

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10 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 17 '25

📣 Just announced: IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding with one tiny model

#docling #rag #opensource #huggingface

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Alain Airom

Sep 16 '25

Moving Your Vector Database from ChromaDB to Milvus

#rag #milvus #chromadb #vectordatabase

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10 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 12 '25

Unlocking the Power of Time: An Introduction to Time Series Analysis

#granite #llm #foundationmodels #timeseries

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4 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 8 '25

First Hands-On Experience with Apple Containers!

#containers #opensource #containerapps #containerization

5 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 7 '25

Early Feedback on “Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)”

#llm #reasoning #ai

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3 min read

Alain Airom

Sep 6 '25

The Future of Document Scanning: A Look at LLM-Powered OCR

#rag #ollama #granite #llama

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12 min read

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