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Alain Airom

Feb 2

Stop Hashing Passwords: A Practical Step-by-Step Passkey Tutorial

#bob #passkey #security #go

10 min read

Alain Airom

Feb 1

Harnessing the Power of watsonx.data: An Elegant Approach by Bob

#watsonxdata #bob #spark #datalakehouse

12 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 29

From Raw Scans to Structured Data: How Bob Built a Powerhouse OCR App in Just 60 Minutes

#bob #ocr #docling #gutenocr

16 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 28

Domain Specific Language Models Book Review

#slm #llm #bookreview #granite

11 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 27

Behind the scenes of Docling PDF Parsing

#docling #documentprocessing #pdf #huggingface

4 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 26

Stop Managing Encryption Keys: Vault-as-a-Service in 5 Minutes

#hashicorpvault #encryption #bob #security

13 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 24

Securing the Cloud-Native Frontier: Vault Security Meets Agentic Automation with watsonx Orchestrate and IBM Bob Code Assistant

#bob #watsonxorchestrate #vault #agents

10 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 23

The Best of Both Worlds: Merging IBM’s Project Bob with Ollama’s Image Ecosystem

#bob #ollama #imagegenerationv #aiimagegeneration

10 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 21

Using SuryaOCR with Docling

#suriyaocr #docling #documentprocessing #gpu

16 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 16

Forge Your Context: Orchestrating the “ContextForge MCP Gateway” with IBM Project Bob

#mcp #mcpserver #mcpprotocol

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14 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 14

Jvector And Python! (Part 4 of jvector series)

#jvector #python #java #vectorsearch

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Alain Airom

Jan 13

Jvector vs. HSNW (Part 3)

#jvector #vectorsearch #hsnw

7 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 13

Automating “watsonx.ai” Project Migrations

#bob #watsonxai #watsonx

13 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 12

JVector vs. Lucene vs. Faiss (Part 2)

#jvector #lucene #faiss #vectorsearch

5 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 11

JVector — An Introduction-What is JVector? (Part 1)

#jvector #vectordatabase #rag #knowledgegraph

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Alain Airom

Jan 8

“OpenRAG” From Documents to Agentic Search in Minutes (from IBM research open source)

#openrag #docling #langflow #opensearch

9 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 6

⚡️ Supercharge Your Document Workflows: Docling Now Unleashes the Power of NVIDIA RTX!

#docling #nvidia #gpu #documentprocessing

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7 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 6

Scaling Output, Not Headcount: The Business Case for AI-Driven Development

#bob #rag #docling #sharepoint

19 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 4

“Cracking the Kubernetes Interview” 🍘 Book Review

#kubernetes #books

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6 min read

Alain Airom

Jan 4

Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Deep Dive into Abhinav Kimothi’s Comprehensive Guide

#rag #books

39 min read

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

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