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Feature toggle in Java Spring

Jan 24, 2024 · 5 min read en featured · java spring spring-boot ·

Today I have an hard time using the @Profile directive for enable feature toggle on Spring, so I decided to write a small guide on it.

yq to manage your K8s yaml

Feb 13, 2024 · 1 min read automation en ·

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On the current project, I had the need to extract the cpu limits from the deployment descriptor, sum them to check resource usage and print a report.

Consigli ad un amante della matematica iscritto per sbaglio al Liceo Classico

Feb 15, 2024 · 3 min read it · matematica ·

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Mi e' tornato in mano un bel libro di Piergiorgio Odifreddi, intitolato C'e' spazio per tutti che tratta di geometria, e mi ha ispirato alcune riflessioni.

Exploring Generative AI: LLama2 on MacM1 Take 1

Feb 17, 2024 · 10 min read en generativeai featured knowledgebase · 373 ideas macm1 macos ollama ·

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.

At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)

How GenAI works & hot news on Gemma

Feb 24, 2024 · 3 min read en generativeai featured knowledgebase · 373 ideas macm1 macos ollama ·

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This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.

Repackage! Spring Boot exit strategy to Jigsaw

Apr 22, 2024 · 1 min read uncategorized · java spring spring-boot ·

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With new JDK, when you compile a spring-boot application you get a big jar which cannot be included as utility jar anymore.

FatLama for GenAI

May 7, 2024 · 1 min read en generativeai ·

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https://fatlama.substack.com is my cool newsletter about GenAI. It is in Italian, but easy to translate with your ChatGPT4 :)

Spring Boot and database testing: production defects

Jun 17, 2024 · 1 min read en java knowledgebase · spring-boot sql ·

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Sometimes you need to fix a production defect. To do it, you need to mirror a specific set of data, and do a test to proof the bug and then fix it.

TDD Reloaded

Jun 26, 2024 · 4 min read en evergreen lang software · java tdd ·

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Test driven development is a beast to tame. I like TDD but in the past it was quite difficult to achive, at least in a pure-consultant approach with a "turn key" framework behind.