Monthly Archives: November 2023

Running private instance of ChatGPT

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Siddharth Jain

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could run a private instance of ChatGPT on your company’s private and confidential data? Well, you can do something like it with privateGPT. Although it does not use ChatGPT as that is a proprietary … Continue reading →

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Clean Code

Posted on November 20, 2023 by Siddharth Jain

Clean code is code that looks like it was written by someone who cares. Software is meant to be soft – changeable, malleable. Well architected code is easy to change. Not every change takes 6 months. Software is about two … Continue reading →

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Authenticating to Google Cloud SQL with IAM Credentials

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Siddharth Jain

Cloud SQL is a managed service in GCP where Google will run and manage MySQL, Postgres or SQL Server for you. A user can authenticate to Cloud SQL in two ways: Using IAM has few advantages I believe. Say you … Continue reading →

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How to read/write HDF5 files in Java

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Siddharth Jain

there are 2 things you need for this: WARNING: You will need JDK 20 because the Java wrapper has been compiled with JDK 20 (when I wrote this blog post). If you have earlier version of JDK you will get … Continue reading →

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