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January 3, 2022

Everything You Need to Know About AWS Graviton2

Graviton2 processors are a type of server processor released by AWS in 2020. They’re a successor to the first generation of Graviton processors (simply called Graviton).

They’re custom-built by AWS using 64-bit Arm architecture, with the goal of offering better performance across EC2 instances vs competitors.

October 16, 2020

How Can NSA Hack Your Webcam?

This is a long-awaited post, I was thinking to post about this as soon as I watched the Snowden movie a few years ago. And today morning as I saw this about “How a hacker can access your webcam through apple safari” on Reddit, I decided it's time to write this.

This is the scene that NSA operatives access a webcam of a powered-off laptop and watch a live stream. I will try to explain whether it's possible if so how.

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]