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YOLO Responsibly! Part 2: Multi-file refactors, harness wars, and a Claude face-off

By Mohammed Aboullaite in Docker on 05 Aug 2026

Pushing local Gemma 4 through a multi-file refactor, rerunning it under opencode, and racing Claude Code. The best security lesson came from the policy log.…

YOLO responsibly! Part 1: A local coding agent with Gemma 4 and Docker sandboxes

By Mohammed Aboullaite in Docker on 30 Jul 2026

Running a coding agent in YOLO mode, powered by a local Gemma 4, inside a Docker Sandbox microVM. Everything that broke on the way, and the small YAML file that fixed it.…

Building RAG Update: Hybrid Search, Reranking & Production Hardening

By Mohammed Aboullaite on 22 Mar 2026

What changed after running a production RAG system for four months: hybrid search, reranking, and hardening lessons for Java and Kubernetes stacks.…

Building Production-Grade RAG Systems: Kubernetes, Autoscaling & LLMs

By Mohammed Aboullaite in kubernetes on 22 Nov 2025

Why Kubernetes for LLM workloads: GPU scheduling, autoscaling, and serving models like Gemma in a production-grade Java RAG system. Part 3 of the series.…

Building Production-Grade RAG Systems: Architecture Deep Dive

By Mohammed Aboullaite in Java on 16 Nov 2025

Architecture deep dive of a production RAG system in Java 25 and Spring Boot WebFlux: service boundaries, retriever design, and tradeoffs explained.…

Building Production-Grade RAG Systems: Understanding the Problem Space

By Mohammed Aboullaite in Java on 10 Nov 2025

The real production challenges of RAG systems: latency, reliability, cost, quality, and observability. Part 1 of building production-grade RAG in Java.…

A look into Deep Java Library!

By Mohammed Aboullaite in Java on 12 Jun 2023

Hands-on intro to DJL (Deep Java Library): building a speech recognition app with an engine-agnostic deep learning framework for Java developers.…

Pixie, the missing developer observability tool!

By Mohammed Aboullaite in kubernetes on 28 May 2023

How Pixie brings instant, eBPF-powered observability to Kubernetes: debug services, spot bottlenecks, and profile apps without changing code.…

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