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Alain Airom

Senior Engineer - Ecosystem Engineering - Build Lab 28+ years experience in the IT industry. Always learning!

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Architect at IBM

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Information Extraction (Tests on a Beta API) from Docling

Information Extraction (Tests on a Beta API) from Docling

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Mixture of Experts Implementation using Granite4: Harnessing Specialization with the Latest Granite Family Model

Mixture of Experts Implementation using Granite4: Harnessing Specialization with the Latest Granite Family Model

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🪨 ‘Granite 4’ Meets ‘Kubectl-AI’: Building Your Own Local, Executable Kubernetes Assistant

🪨 ‘Granite 4’ Meets ‘Kubectl-AI’: Building Your Own Local, Executable Kubernetes Assistant

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The Secret to Efficient RAG: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chunking and Counting Your Vectors

The Secret to Efficient RAG: A Step-by-Step Guide to Chunking and Counting Your Vectors

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Embedded Intelligence: How SQLite-vec Delivers Fast, Local Vector Search for AI.

Embedded Intelligence: How SQLite-vec Delivers Fast, Local Vector Search for AI.

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Decoding AI’s Inner Language: How to Test Your Embedding Models

Decoding AI’s Inner Language: How to Test Your Embedding Models

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Testing Ollama Web Search 🔍 and a Thinking Model 💭

Testing Ollama Web Search 🔍 and a Thinking Model 💭

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Kubernetes Security Book (2nd Edition) — A Synthesis

Kubernetes Security Book (2nd Edition) — A Synthesis

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Introducing a Game-Changer: Docling and IBM Cloud Code Engine Join Forces

Introducing a Game-Changer: Docling and IBM Cloud Code Engine Join Forces

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Unlock Your Data: Supercharge Excel Document Processing with Docling

Unlock Your Data: Supercharge Excel Document Processing with Docling

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My very first hands-on epxerience with Langflow

My very first hands-on epxerience with Langflow

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Unlocking Insights: Monitoring Your Apps with Grafana & Prometheus (and Why LLMs Need It Too!)

Unlocking Insights: Monitoring Your Apps with Grafana & Prometheus (and Why LLMs Need It Too!)

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📣 Just announced: IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding with one tiny model

📣 Just announced: IBM Granite-Docling: End-to-end document understanding with one tiny model

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Moving Your Vector Database from ChromaDB to Milvus

Moving Your Vector Database from ChromaDB to Milvus

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Unlocking the Power of Time: An Introduction to Time Series Analysis

Unlocking the Power of Time: An Introduction to Time Series Analysis

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First Hands-On Experience with Apple Containers!

First Hands-On Experience with Apple Containers!

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Early Feedback on “Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)”

Early Feedback on “Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)”

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The Future of Document Scanning: A Look at LLM-Powered OCR

The Future of Document Scanning: A Look at LLM-Powered OCR

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Code Generation with ‘Graph RAG’, AstraDB and gpt-oss

Code Generation with ‘Graph RAG’, AstraDB and gpt-oss

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A Developer’s Guide to Azure: A Deep Dive into the “Azure for Developers”

A Developer’s Guide to Azure: A Deep Dive into the “Azure for Developers”

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Hands-on and Testing of Google “langextract” and further thoughts…

Hands-on and Testing of Google “langextract” and further thoughts…

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What I learnt from reading a book on Graph Query Language (GQL)

What I learnt from reading a book on Graph Query Language (GQL)

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My Local/Remote LLM Studio — watsonx.ai and Ollama (part 1)

My Local/Remote LLM Studio — watsonx.ai and Ollama (part 1)

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MCP Context Forge Gateway — Try it now! ⚡

MCP Context Forge Gateway — Try it now! ⚡

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Using “OpenLLMetry” is simple comme Bonjour :)

Using “OpenLLMetry” is simple comme Bonjour :)

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Beyond Search: How to Chat with Your Documents Using AstraDB Vector Database, Docling and Granite

Beyond Search: How to Chat with Your Documents Using AstraDB Vector Database, Docling and Granite

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Unlocking Visual Intelligence: Picture Annotation with Remote VLM Power

Unlocking Visual Intelligence: Picture Annotation with Remote VLM Power

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Fun project of the week, Mermaid flowcharts generator!

Fun project of the week, Mermaid flowcharts generator!

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Maximize Your Documents: Exploring the Advantages of Full OCR of PDF files and chat with your documents!

Maximize Your Documents: Exploring the Advantages of Full OCR of PDF files and chat with your documents!

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Small Model, Big Impact: IBM Granite Vision Dominates Document Understanding

Small Model, Big Impact: IBM Granite Vision Dominates Document Understanding

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⚡️ BREAKING: Docling Unlocks ASR (automatic speech recognition) Power!

⚡️ BREAKING: Docling Unlocks ASR (automatic speech recognition) Power!

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Local Elasticsearch Playground: A Practical Introduction and hands-on test (and moving to a RAG solution)

Local Elasticsearch Playground: A Practical Introduction and hands-on test (and moving to a RAG solution)

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From Jargon to Genius: Chunking as the Key to Explainable AI Generation

From Jargon to Genius: Chunking as the Key to Explainable AI Generation

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What Are Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and How Do They Work?

What Are Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and How Do They Work?

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Chatterbox: Testing an Open-Source TTS Tool & My Impressions

Chatterbox: Testing an Open-Source TTS Tool & My Impressions

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From Speech to Text: A Guide to IBM Granite Speech for Audio Transcriptions

From Speech to Text: A Guide to IBM Granite Speech for Audio Transcriptions

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From Natural Language to SQL: A Deep Dive with Ollama and Granite

From Natural Language to SQL: A Deep Dive with Ollama and Granite

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Unlocking AI’s Full Potential: The Power of Synthetic Data Generation with Docling SDG

Unlocking AI’s Full Potential: The Power of Synthetic Data Generation with Docling SDG

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Beyond Borders: Seamless Document Translation with Docling and Granite

Beyond Borders: Seamless Document Translation with Docling and Granite

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Your Desktop AI: Seamlessly Running Granite with LiteLLM and Ollama

Your Desktop AI: Seamlessly Running Granite with LiteLLM and Ollama

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“AI Agents in Action” book: A Deep Dive into the Future of Intelligent Systems

“AI Agents in Action” book: A Deep Dive into the Future of Intelligent Systems

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Unlock New Possibilities: Docling Operator Just Announced!

Unlock New Possibilities: Docling Operator Just Announced!

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AI Agent using Function Calling with Ollama, Granite and Terraform!

AI Agent using Function Calling with Ollama, Granite and Terraform!

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Unlocking Efficiency: How watsonx Code Assistant and Terraform Redefine Infrastructure Automation

Unlocking Efficiency: How watsonx Code Assistant and Terraform Redefine Infrastructure Automation

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Integration of Terraform and Ansible Together by IBM

Integration of Terraform and Ansible Together by IBM

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VLM Pipeline with Docling

VLM Pipeline with Docling

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Installing a Kubernetes Cluster on a Virtualized Platform (VM): how many VMs you need?

Installing a Kubernetes Cluster on a Virtualized Platform (VM): how many VMs you need?

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Open-source Granite 🪨 TimeSeries tiny model

Open-source Granite 🪨 TimeSeries tiny model

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Vector Databases: their utility and functioning (RAG usage)

Vector Databases: their utility and functioning (RAG usage)

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Invoice Data Extraction using IBM Granite LLM locally (not from watsonx!)

Invoice Data Extraction using IBM Granite LLM locally (not from watsonx!)

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Writing Code (and much much more…) with watsonx Code Assistant — An update

Writing Code (and much much more…) with watsonx Code Assistant — An update

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Build a knowledge graph from documents using Docling

Build a knowledge graph from documents using Docling

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Picture annotation with Docling

Picture annotation with Docling

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Building a RAG with Docling and LangChain

Building a RAG with Docling and LangChain

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MCP Server/Client and Agent and my unanswered philosophical question!

MCP Server/Client and Agent and my unanswered philosophical question!

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Running Docling as an API Server

Running Docling as an API Server

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Steps to deploy Python applications in containers and to Kubernetes clusters for data scientists and ML engineers

Steps to deploy Python applications in containers and to Kubernetes clusters for data scientists and ML engineers

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How to import sample data into a Python notebook on watsonx.ai and other questions…

How to import sample data into a Python notebook on watsonx.ai and other questions…

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Docling “Enrichment Features”

Docling “Enrichment Features”

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Visual Grounding from Docling!

Visual Grounding from Docling!

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