Archive - Christo’s Blog

Anatomy of an AI application

A high level overview of an application that uses LLMs

Jun 28 •

Christo Olivier

March 2024

LLMs and function/tool calling

What is it and how to achieve it with any LLM, not just those that support it in their API/SDK

Mar 28 •

Christo Olivier

September 2023

Seamless settings management with Pydantic and Google Cloud Secret Manager

Pydantic's settings management capabilities make configuring your application easy across different environments, and you can easily extend it to new…

Sep 5, 2023 •

Christo Olivier

August 2023

Deploying Streamlit applications to Google Cloud

A step-by-step guide on how to deploy and secure Streamlit applications in Google Cloud, ensuring only people in your organisation can access them

Aug 29, 2023 •

Christo Olivier

April 2023

Thoughts on Fivetran and similar tools

I saw this post on LinkedIn this morning. I could not help but have my thoughts run when I saw it. The meme has done the rounds in many forms, but what…

Apr 18, 2023 •

Christo Olivier

June 2022

May 2020

What's up with __init__.py and __main__.py ?

I have noticed that a lot of articles that show how to create a python application uses __init__.py in the root folder of the application. Some also use…

May 18, 2020 •

Christo Olivier

April 2019

Power BI plugin for Apache Airflow

Apache Airflow has been a core part of a few projects I have been involved in. One of the great things about it is how extensible it is. If there is a…

Apr 9, 2019 •

Christo Olivier

June 2018

Practical remote working: part 3 - business processes and culture

In the last two posts we tackled what I have always found the easy parts in being an effective remote worker.

Jun 5, 2018 •

Christo Olivier

April 2018

Practical remote working: part 2 - software

There are so many options for software when dealing with remote working that it can truly make your head spin.

Apr 2, 2018 •

Christo Olivier

January 2018

Practical remote working: part 1 - hardware and environment

In this first post in this series we will look at the hardware you will need and also the physical environment that you should aim to create.

Jan 8, 2018 •

Christo Olivier

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