Introduction

Knowledge book of technical experiments #

Purpose #

  • The intent is to share insights from the experimentation carried out in the different technical focus areas.
  • This is an opinionated view by Ankur Kumar based on his experience of using the different technologies.

Areas Covered #

  • Quick introduction to the technology
  • Key Architecture & Design Details/Links
  • How to set up locally?
  • Key learning and takeaway from the technical evaulation (consider it opinionated by Ankur Kumar)

Focus Areas #

- Cloud Native Technologies
- DevOps, GitOps
- Microservices
- NOSQL databases
- Cloud Services - SaaS, Serverless, Managed Services
- Kubernetes - Containerization Solutions, Tools, Utils
- Mobile Solutions
- Low-code Solutions
- Web3
- AI & Machine Learning
- Open Source Software

Generative AI Experiments #

  • Runway - Generating images/videos using AI
  • Lamini AI - Enterprise AI Platform with tuning, inference, etc.
  • Groq - AI Inference Platform
  • Holistic AI - Enterprise AI Governance
  • Voyage AI - Search and Retrieval for Unstructured Data
  • Glean AI - Enterprise AI Platform with Search, Assistant, Apps, Prompt Lib, Workplace Search, etc.
  • Comet - End-to-end model evaluation platform for AI developers,
  • Dataloop AI - Enterprise AI Platform with DataOps/LLMOps, Agents, etc.
  • Baseten – Deploy AI models in production, AI Inference
  • Neural Magic - AI inference using vLLM (quantized)
  • TigerGraph - Graph analytics and AI
  • Sambanova - AI Inference Platform
  • Datastax - AI Platform, Astra DB, Langflow
  • Deeplite - Optimized AI model for edge
  • Iki.ai - Research assistant
  • Write - AI Writing Platform with AI Studio, KG, etc.
  • Bloop AI - Legacy code modernization
  • Credo AI - AI Governance
  • Vellum AI - Prompting, Orchestration, Evaluations, etc.
  • KServe - Standardized Serverless ML Inference Platform on Kubernetes
  • ClearML - LLMOps & MLOps Development Lifecycle
  • Products in AI Top 50

LLM Observability #

Data Engineering Experiments #

Pending List to Experiment #

  • [WunderGraph] (https://wundergraph.com/)
  • Kasten by Veeam - K8S Backup
  • Calisti - Service Mesh Manager By Cisco
  • Panoptica - Robust security from CI/CD to runtime providing a single pane of glass for Container, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, & API security - by Cisco
  • Telescope - Cloud-Native Application Troubleshooting (OpenTelemtry based) by Cisco
  • Huawei Cloud-native - Cloud Native 2.0 offerings
  • Argon Security - Software Supply Chain Security
  • Cockroach DB - Distributed Cloud SQL DB by Ex-Google Folks
  • Teleport - secure access to SSH servers, Kubernetes clusters, PostgreSQL databases and web apps behind NAT
  • Kong Service Mesh - Service Mesh
  • LogDNA - Log Analysis
  • Timescale - Opensource RDBMS (PostgreSQL based) for time-series data
  • Ambassador Cloud - K8S Cluster Management
  • Create DB - The distributed, open source, SQL database enabling data insights at scale
  • Honeycomb - Cloud-native observability
  • InfluxDB Cloud - time series database as a service
  • Kubecost - real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes
  • Lightstep - Monitoring, observability, and incident response for the world’s most reliable systems
  • Bytebase- CI/CD solution for database

Developer Portals #

Learning Portals #

Books (To Read) #

Books (Read so far) #

2022

Earlier

Contributors #