14 min read 0 AI Pretraining? Fine Tuning? What does it take to train an LLM? 07-21-25 In a previous post, I looked at the differences between reasoning models, and more traditional LLMs. And to read more…
6 min read 0 Learning Dev to DevSecOps Training 07-11-25 One common question I’ve gotten a lot lately is to give some recommendations on training options. Now the internet is…
4 min read 0 Tools Moving Data in Azure – AzCopy in Government 07-03-25 Lately I’ve been having a lot of conversations about moving data around in azure government, and this is a pretty…
11 min read 0 AI Investigations What exactly are “Reasoning Models” and how do they work? 07-01-25 As I continue to investigate LLMs, and the implement and use of AI. I took a step back and asked…
14 min read 0 AI Investigations Embeddings and Vectors, explanation of how LLMs see and interpret the world. 06-25-25 Recently I’ve been investigating and leveling up my understanding of AI, LLMs, and AIOps in general. You can’t look anywhere…
4 min read 0 AI Repos Fun with AI and Planetary Computer – Let’s find some kaiju! 06-24-25 So this is a fun project I built, but it does a great job of illustrating a very real use-case.…
3 min read 0 AI Challenges Dev-Environment God forbid, you’re ridiculously successful 06-13-25 This past week, I got to do some more experimenting with MCP, and honestly the implications of that technology are…
2 min read 0 Dev-Environment DevOps Infrastructure-as-Code Tools Building virtual machine “golden” images with Packer 06-02-25 As I mentioned in the newsletter for 5/30/2025, one of the key elements to making a team productive is to…
3 min read 0 DevOps Infrastructure-as-Code Tools Getting started with Terraform and Azure Government 05-23-25 So, I’ve done quite a few posts recently on Azure Government, and specifically had a focus on infrastructure-as-code. I’ve had…
12 min read 0 DevOps git Tools Using a vNext Branching Strategy 04-25-25 I’m a DevSecOps nerd, honestly I’ve always been a big proponant of deployment automation. For me, having git + CI/CD,…