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"https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/comparing-devops-dataops-aiops-mlops-and-llmops-key-differences/", "published_at": "2024-04-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c2679079c2", "title": "Usage of 'else' in Python", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/usage-of-else-in-python/", "published_at": "2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c267d1e074", "title": "God mode in a browser", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/god-mode-in-a-browser/", "published_at": "2024-01-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c2680bc94f", "title": "LLMOps: Introduction", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/llmops-introduction/", "published_at": "2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c268d00c08", "title": "2023: Highlights", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/2023-highlights/", "published_at": "2023-12-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c268db34a2", "title": "Tax Planning for Salaried Employees", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/tax-planning-for-salaried-employees/", "published_at": "2023-11-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c269834ca5", "title": "Odias in AI/ML Conference 2023", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/odias-in-aiml-conference-2023/", "published_at": "2023-10-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c2698c4746", "title": "PyCon India 2023: Insights from the CFP Workgroup", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/pycon-india-2023-insights-from-the-cfp-workgroup/", "published_at": "2023-10-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c269fe57e8", "title": "An Analysis of PyCon India 2023 Proposals", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/an-analysis-of-pycon-india-2023-proposals/", "published_at": "2023-09-27T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26aa4d8c4", "title": "Large Language Models History", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/large-language-models-history/", "published_at": "2023-09-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26b6e04b0", "title": "Step-by-Step: Migrating from Carrd to Cloudflare Pages", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/step-by-step-migrating-from-carrd-to-cloudflare-pages/", "published_at": "2023-07-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26c077bc6", "title": "MySQL Partition", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/mysql-partition/", "published_at": "2023-06-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26c4259aa", "title": "Garbage Collection in Python", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/garbage collection in python/", "published_at": "2023-03-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26c9c1122", "title": "__repr__ in Python", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/repr-in-python/", "published_at": "2023-03-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26d7b58a9", "title": "How to Use Structs in GoLang: A Comprehensive Tutorial", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/how-to-use-structs-in-golang-a-comprehensive-tutorial/", "published_at": "2023-03-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26e2af9a9", "title": "@property in Python", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/property-in-python/", "published_at": "2023-03-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26f111639", "title": "Prompt Engineering", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/prompt-engineering/", "published_at": "2023-03-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c26fadd22c", "title": "Retrospecting Retrospectives", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/retrospecting-retrospectives/", "published_at": "2023-03-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c27016dab2", "title": "How to access GPT-4", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/how-to-access-gpt-4/", "published_at": "2023-03-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c2705220eb", "title": "Ownership and Borrowing in Rust", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/ownership-and-borrowing-in-rust/", "published_at": "2023-03-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c27137c61c", "title": "How to validate a JSON in Python", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/how-to-validate-a-json-in-python/", "published_at": "2023-03-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c271affc8a", "title": "10 Best Practices for your Python code", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/10-best-practices-for-your-python-code/", "published_at": "2023-03-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087e3-b4f4-7200-813e-79c272a66937", "title": "What is Zero Trust?", "url": "https://www.soumendrak.com/blog/what-is-zero-trust/", "published_at": "2023-03-01T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Week 34, 2026 - AI Stops Being the Story and Becomes the Pipelineoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
Week 33, 2026 - Traces as Documentation, the Observability Land Grab and Search I Host Myselforiginal ↗
16 Aug 2026
How Distributed Tracing Works: Scrub It, Poke It, Break Itoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Week 32, 2026 - The EU AI Act as an Observability Spec, Overruling My Research Agent, and Leaving Conductororiginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Week 31, 2026 - Consolidating Tools, AI Interview Cheating, and Agents That Delete Your Skillsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2026
Stop Trying to Spot AI Cheating. Design Interviews That Expose Shallow Understandingoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
Week 30, 2026 - Session Limit Hacks, Human Touch, and AI Worship Cultsoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
Adding Langfuse Observability to Hermes Agent (Self-Hosted, the Hard Parts Included)original ↗
19 Jul 2026
Week 29, 2026 - Signal vs Noise, Vendor Engineering, and Mapping My Readersoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
Week 27, 2026 - Music-Evoked Chills, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Buddha Viharoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2026
Week 26, 2026 - Cheap Claude Tokens, Interview Cheating, and Navayanaoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
Week 25, 2026 - Verbose prompts as a reliability problem, 14 years in IT, and the one-rupee argument for taxesoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2026
The Trends of Engineering in AI: Prompt, Context, Harness, Loop, and Evaluationoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2026
Week 24, 2026: Second brain infrastructure, export controls, and the AI race leaves the chatboxoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2026
Who Am I?original ↗
10 Jun 2026
Week 23, 2026 — OTel graduation, Langfuse pipeline, memory systems, and the agent infrastructure stackoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2026
Week 22 — CoverView API, Satori rendering, and the art of a single curl calloriginal ↗
31 May 2026
My Subagents Lied to Me: What Happened When I Let AI Research Autonomouslyoriginal ↗
29 May 2026
Week 21, 2026 · May 18-24: TILs, Clicker Games and Google I/Ooriginal ↗
24 May 2026
Week 20, 2026 · May 11-17: Two Agents, a Workshop and the Leap of Faithoriginal ↗
17 May 2026
Week 19, 2026 · May 4–10: Digests, Hermes Agent and the Self-Improving Looporiginal ↗
10 May 2026
Subscribeoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
Week 15, 2026: Glasswing, Langfuse and the Claude Skills Explosionoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
Week 14, 2026 Claude Skills, Code Internals and Buddhismoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2026
Week 13, 2026: Supply Chain Attacks, Wide Events and MuleSoft OTeloriginal ↗
29 Mar 2026
Week 12, 2026 · OpenAI Eats the Python Toolchain, Claude Cowork Scheduling, and AI Observabilityoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2026
11: Alerting & Service Level Objectives (SLOs)original ↗
21 Mar 2026
10: Dashboards & the RED Methodoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
9: Sampling & PII Scrubbingoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
8.2: Building Your First OTel Collector Pipelineoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
8.3: Operating the OTel Collector in Productionoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
8.1: Why the OpenTelemetry Collector Existsoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2026
7: Error Handling & Semantic Instrumentationoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
6: Correlating Telemetry Signals , The Pivot Workfloworiginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
PyConf Hyderabad 2026: A Homecoming I Didn't Know I Neededoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2026
Week 11: Langfuse, ragwatch and the AI Observability Grindoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2026
Week 10: OpenTelemetry for AI Agents, Context Engineering, and MCP Ecosystemoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2026
Week 08: Agentic Evals & Observability, Building in Rust, and Small Web Rabbit Holesoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2026
Miss One Weekend, Fall Behind One Monthoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2026
Week 07: Realizing Ignorance in Agents & Observability, Ethical AI & Dropping Readwiseoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2026
Week 06: Learning Notes on Content Creation, AI Agent Evals, Prompt Caching & Mental Modelsoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2026
5: Custom Metrics with OpenTelemetryoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2026
4: Distributed Tracing: Following a Request Across Servicesoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
3: Automatic Tracing with OpenTelemetryoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
Week 05: OTel survey insights, moving to Rybbit, HDD costs, and Meta's Rust rewriteoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2026
AI in AI: What I Learned Analysing AI in the Adult Industryoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026
Week 04: Hello Worldoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2026
2: Context Propagationoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
1: Structured Logging in Python using Loguruoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2026
Resurrecting an Abandoned Project: CoverVieworiginal ↗
18 Jan 2026
Building a Speed Reader App: A Prototype That Taught Me More Than It Helped Me Readoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2026
Targeted Profiling in Python using tproforiginal ↗
15 Jan 2026
How to become an OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)original ↗
13 Jan 2026

2025

2025: at a glanceoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
Self-Hosting Journey: From Heroku to Hetzner VPS with Coolify & Proxmoxoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2025
The Three Types of Workplace Power Explained: Role, Relational, and Expertiseoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2025
Beyond the Hype: An Executive Playbook for AI Governance (2025 Edition)original ↗
9 Jul 2025
The Evolution of Human‑Digital Communication: From Penmanship to Brain‑Computer Interfacesoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2025
Advancing AI Observability: From Metrics to Meaningful Insightsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2025
Frequently Asked Questionsoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2025
Aboutoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2025
The Hidden Cost of LLM-as-a-Judge: When More Evaluation Means Less Valueoriginal ↗
11 May 2025
RSS Feed Finderoriginal ↗
1 May 2025
Stay Informed: My Top RSS Picksoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2025
From Naive to Light: The Evolution of RAG Systemsoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2025
My experience as a Judge in a GenAI hackathonoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2025
Creating Python packages using Rustoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2025
Hackernews Sorteroriginal ↗
2 Mar 2025
Celebrating Diwali in styleoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2025

2024

Insider view of OdishaAI 2024original ↗
13 Oct 2024
attrs in Pythonoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2024
Production Readiness Checklistoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2024
Basic Python interview questions and answers for beginnersoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2024
🤖 The Ultimate AI Tools Collection: 800+ Tools to Supercharge Your Productivityoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2024
asyncio.Semaphore: Practical Guide with Real-World Use Casesoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Leadership & Career Profileoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2024
Patching a memory leakoriginal ↗
25 May 2024
Comparing DevOps, DataOps, AIOps, MLOps, and LLMOps: Key Differencesoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
Usage of 'else' in Pythonoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2024
God mode in a browseroriginal ↗
14 Jan 2024
LLMOps: Introductionoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2024

2023

2023: Highlightsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2023
Tax Planning for Salaried Employeesoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2023
Odias in AI/ML Conference 2023original ↗
22 Oct 2023
PyCon India 2023: Insights from the CFP Workgrouporiginal ↗
5 Oct 2023
An Analysis of PyCon India 2023 Proposalsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2023
Large Language Models Historyoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2023
Step-by-Step: Migrating from Carrd to Cloudflare Pagesoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2023
MySQL Partitionoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2023
Garbage Collection in Pythonoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2023
__repr__ in Pythonoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2023
How to Use Structs in GoLang: A Comprehensive Tutorialoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2023
@property in Pythonoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2023
Prompt Engineeringoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2023
Retrospecting Retrospectivesoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2023
How to access GPT-4original ↗
14 Mar 2023
Ownership and Borrowing in Rustoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2023
How to validate a JSON in Pythonoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2023
10 Best Practices for your Python codeoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2023
What is Zero Trust?original ↗
1 Mar 2023
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