Gen-AI, or generative AI is the new hot topic in the market. From chat-GPT writing your assignments, DALL-E creating art, its complexity is growing as rapidly as its use case. So let’s break down the technology. We start by understanding AI. Artificial Intelligence can be understood as a disciple or…

And with that 2022 comes to an end; but before we end, here’s my retrospection of all news tech this year. — The year started with not just gaming nerds but companies wanting to buy video games. In January, Microsoft announced its plans to buy Activision Blizzard, the parent of Call of Duty, in a 68.7 billion dollar all cash deal. Since this is a huge deal, US Federal Trade commision,EU, UK…

If you’re here, I’m hoping you’re familiar with the basics of Database Management Systems and have an idea of how SQL queried and different database system works. This article is to understand and start working with PostgreSQL as a beginner. What is PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL, is a free and open source ORDBMS (aka object…

One of the first steps while working on any project that handles large amount of data, is to decide the structure and flow of data stored. A good data model is a means to a good foundation of any project, where as a badly structured data model can lead to…

Quick notes: History and Use of DBMS A Brief History of Database Technology Early database applications 1960s — Hierarchical and network models were introduced. A bulk of world wide database still occurs using these models. Relational Model Based Systems introduced in 1970 Heavily researched and experimented within IBM research and several university. Relational database management system…

The beginning and the growth of DevOps — To master DevOps, it is important that we understand how it immerged in the first place. So let’s begin at the beginning and start with understanding the history, need and birth of DevOps. The Pre-DevOps Era 20007 Before DevOps came into picture, releases and deployment were a chaotic event. Last minute issues and rollbacks…

This is part 3 /3 Read part 1 here and part 2/3 here. Memory Management In multi programming systems, what was considered large memory size 5 years ago, is obsolete today, what is considered large memory size today, is going to be obsolete in 5 years. So there is never going to…

This is part 2/3 Read part 1 here and part 3 here. Context Switching When does Process Switch occurs? Interrupts — When hardware servicing is needed Trap — When OS support is required Blocking System Calls — When requests from the process is made for OS support When a context switch /…

This is part 1/3 Read part 2 here and part 3 here. Understanding Computers A computer is any electro-mechanical device which takes input, does some processing on that input and gives an output. …