What if you could point your phone at a restaurant menu in any language and instantly get the cultural story behind each dish, hear how to pronounce it, see a photorealistic image of what it looks like, and know if it is safe for your allergies? That is exactly what Menu to Food Tour does, powered by 5 AI agents […]
CCAT Chapter 1: Introduction to Claude Code Agent Teams
Learning Objectives By the end of this chapter, you will: What is Claude Code? Claude Code is a command-line interface (CLI) tool powered by Claude AI that helps developers with software engineering tasks. Think of it as having an AI assistant right in your terminal! What Are Agent Teams? Agent Teams let you run multiple Claude Code instances working together […]
Orchestrating Claude Code Agent Teams CCAT
Learn AI Using AI [LAUA] This comprehensive educational guide details the functionality and orchestration of Claude Code Agent Teams, an experimental feature allowing multiple AI instances to collaborate on software engineering projects. The documentation outlines a structured curriculum that moves from initial setup and environment configuration to advanced multi-agent architecture and specialized communication systems. Key components described include the Team Lead, who manages coordination, […]
Connect kubernetes pod to a GCS bucket using JS
To connect from a Kubernetes pod to a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket using JavaScript, you need to follow these steps: 3. Configure your Kubernetes Pod to use the Secret: In this YAML: 4. Install the Google Cloud Storage client library: 5. Use the Google Cloud Storage client in your JavaScript code: 6. Deploy your application to Kubernetes: 7. Access […]
Easiest way to run an LLM locally on your Mac
I recently sought an efficient method for local experimentation with Language Model (LM) models and came across LM Studio. LM Studio offers a user-friendly platform that facilitates the exploration of various LLM models through its graphical user interface (UI). The installation process for LM Studio on macOS is straightforward and user-friendly. Simply navigate to the LM Studio website and locate […]
EKS cluster using an existing VPC
The eksctl command line tool can create a cluster by either command-line options or using a eksctl config file to define the infrastructure. The default method to provision EKS with this tool is to create both the VPC and EKS that uses VPC, but this is not as flexible. But what if you already created VPC for your network, below is one […]
kubectl Unable to connect to the server
When working with Kubernetes if you are getting Unable to conntect to server timeout like below mandarshinde@MacBook-Pro cloud-native % kubectl cluster-info dump Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 31.117.131.267:443: i/o timeout Get current cluster name and Zone: gcloud container clusters list Configure Kubernetes to use your current cluster: gcloud container clusters get-credentials [cluster name] –zone [zone]
Lucidworks Spell Correction
We need to update few configuration for spell check to work in Lucidworks Fusion. This blog outline the changes need to made to show spell suggestion on AppStudio application. Update RequestHandler to use “spellcheck” search component. Add below lines to “/select” RequestHandler within “<lst name=”defaults”>” Once done update platform “fusion.conf” which is at location “<app-studio>/src/main/resources/conf/message/service/fusion.conf” and add below lines Update […]
Automatic Phrasing Token Filter in Lucidworks Fusion
How do we inject capability to detect and tokenize phrases using Automatic Phrazing Token Filter in Fusion? Well below are the details on how to do it. Configuration Settings: 1. Using this github create your jar. [https://github.com/lucidworks/auto-phrase-tokenfilter]. Copy JAR [“auto-phrase-tokenfilter-1.0.jar”] to solrLocation to copy JAR “/opt/fusion/<version>/apps/solr-dist/dist” 2. Update solr config.xml Add lib reference 3. Add a new text file “autophrases.txt” […]
Java SE 8 parallelSort in Arrays class
Arrays class now has several new “parallel” methods to take advantage of multi-core hardware. Arrays method parallelSort can sort large arrays more efficiently on multicore systems. Lets create a very large array and use Java SE 8 Date/Time API to compare how long it takes to sort the array with methods sort and parallelSort. SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom(); // […]

