A hands-on review of Dify, an open-source no-code LLM platform: strengths and limits for building RAG pipelines, agent workflows, self-hosted deployments, and how it compares to n8n/Make.
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AI · LLMOps
Agents, prompts, RAG, evaluation, and observability
Kubernetes · MLOps
Kubernetes operations, delivery pipelines, GPUs, and model serving
Cloud · Data
Cloud architecture, data pipelines, storage, and databases
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2026 4 posts
2025 8 posts
- MCP Gateway Recommendation: mcp-context-forge in Production
- OpenAI Agent SDK — Build Agents the Easy Way
- MCP - Model Context Protocol
- Setting Up Actions Runner Controller
- Building an Nvidia Triton Inference Server
- Deep Dive into LLM Function Calling: The Core of AI Agents
- Connecting GKE with AWS IAM Role: Securely Accessing AWS Resources Without Access Keys
- Implementing an AI Agent
2023 4 posts
2022 31 posts
- Looking Back on 2022
- Understanding Automatic Updates in GKE
- Using GCP Secret Manager with Kubernetes
- Configuring Workload Identity on GKE
- Autoscaling GKE Jobs with KEDA and Pub/Sub
- Notes from GCP OnAir – Big Series
- Reflections as a New Developer
- Kubernetes Volumes: PV, PVC, and StorageClass
- Using dbt with Google BigQuery
- Terraform – Remote State & Workspaces
- Terraform – Autoscaling Group + Application Load Balancer
- Terraform – Creating an AWS EC2 Instance
- Terraform – Variables and Outputs
- Connecting Web and DB Pods in Kubernetes
- Building a Dashboard with Kubernetes CronJobs
- Continuous Delivery with Argo CD
- Building CI with GitHub Actions
- Following the FastAPI Docs
- Automating GKE Deployments with gcloud & Crontab
- Deploying on GKE and Enabling Sticky Sessions
- Deploying Spring Boot to Kubernetes
- Introduction to MongoDB in Python
- PySpark – Cleaning Data
- AWS SAA C02 Exam Review
- PySpark
- Scala
- AWS – Theory Notes
- Database Design
- Introduction to Relational Databases in SQL
- Introduction to AWS Boto in Python
- Implementing NLP XAI
2021 12 posts
- Building Data Engineering Pipelines in Python
- Introduction to PySpark
- Introduction to Airflow in Python
- AWS – Amazon Web Services – Cloud Computing
- Unit Testing for Data Science in Python
- Object-Oriented Programming in Python
- Introduction to Bash Scripting
- Data Processing in Shell
- Shell
- Writing Functions in Python
- Writing Efficient Python Code
- Pandas/Database/SQL/JSON