Every article by Zareef Ahmed since 2004: AI-assisted development, private AI deployments, cloud architecture on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, DevOps, databases and software craft.
Retrieval-augmented generation turns your company's documents into something you can ask questions of, grounded in your own material and running entirely on infrastructure you control. The private stack, the build order, and the failure modes (permission bleed, stale indexes, uncited answers) that separate a demo from a deployment.
I have been working with technology for more than two decades. I have programmed in more languages than I can now remember, worked with servers, databases, DevOps, cloud…
This is the mukhda of very famous song Ek Pyar Ka Nagma hai played by Zareef Ahmed on Keyboard. This is one of the things that Zareef do…
Ollama is how most engineers first run an open model: one install, one pull, and a model is answering on your laptop. My Ollama guide covers that single-machine…
When I review a private AI deployment, planned or already running, I walk the same list every time. It exists because every item on it has bitten a…
Running an open model on your own laptop takes fifteen minutes; my Ollama guide covers that. Running LLMs for a whole company is a different job: shared hardware,…
I use AI coding tools every day, I help teams adopt them, and I wrote a book about staying safe while doing it. So let me say this…
Every company adopting generative AI eventually faces the same question, usually sooner than it expected: should we call a cloud AI API, or run the models ourselves? I…
Run large language models on your own machine with Ollama — and offload the big ones to the cloud — with install steps, the local API, and Ollama Cloud.
Install and sign in to the OpenAI Codex CLI, the terminal coding agent — with notes on approval modes and staying in control.
Get GitHub Copilot running in VS Code and JetBrains — prerequisites, sign-in, and how to use inline suggestions and chat.
A step-by-step guide to installing and signing in to Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool for the terminal.
Mathematician Ian Stewart compiled this list of seventeen equations in his book In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World. Stewart highlights how each equation,…
There are several tools available for interacting with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS). These tools can help you manage, query, and analyze data stored in your databases. Here's…
Learning SQL is important for several reasons, particularly for professionals working with data or in the technology industry. Here are some key reasons why learning SQL is beneficial:…
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used for managing relational databases and performing various operations on the data stored in them. Here are some basic concepts…
In the world of web development, ensuring the security of your application is a top priority. Laravel, a popular PHP framework, comes with a range of built-in features…
Review of Socket.IO Cookbook by Zareef Ahmed.
Book Review by Zareef Ahmed for the book Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins.
In this short video, I have created and connected to a windows instance at Amazon Web Service (AWS)
Here we are discussing the use case of dynamic inventory in Ansible.
Book Review by Zareef Ahmed of Book Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)
Book Review : Mastering Ansible (Jesse Keating) by Zareef Ahmed.
7 things every web developer should know about Linux Administration By Zareef Ahmed Web programming is not only about how you develop your applications, ...