AI

If you are building AI applications, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines, or just need a powerful search engine, you need a Vector Database. While services like Pinecone are great, they get expensive. In this guide, I’ll walk you through self-hosting OpenSearch (the open-source fork of Elasticsearch) on an Oracle Cloud ARM...

Deploying AI tools like Langflow on self-hosted hardware (like the generous Oracle Cloud ARM Free Tier) gives you total control over your data and costs. While tools like Coolify make deployment easy, Langflow has a few quirks regarding data persistence and admin authentication that can cause headaches—like data disappearing after...

MCPO (Model Context Protocol OpenAPI Proxy) is a tool that exposes MCP server tools as OpenAPI endpoints, making them easy to integrate with platforms like Open WebUI. I previously wrote a detailed post on manual MCPO installation and configuration: 🚀 Installing and Configuring MCPO for Open WebUI – A Complete Guide....

Docling Chunkers: Overview and Comparison Docling provides several chunkers for splitting documents into semantically meaningful pieces, each with different strategies and sophistication: 1. BaseChunker 2. HierarchicalChunker 3. HybridChunker Summary Table: Chunker Structure-Aware Sliding Window Semantic Coherence Use Case Sophistication BaseChunker No No Low Simple, unstructured docs Basic HierarchicalChunker Yes No...