Personalized generated images with custom styles or objects — On 22 Aug 2022, Stability.AI announced the public release of Stable Diffusion, a powerful latent text-to-image diffusion model. The model is capable of generating different variants of images given any text or image as input. Please note that the … model is being released under a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license…

One step forward, one step back — On 24 Nov 2022, Stability.AI announced the public release of Stable Diffusion 2.0, a big update to the previous version with breaking changes. At the time of this writing, it has received mixed reactions from the community. The new architecture was praised for its state-of-the-art features, but at the same…

An open-source graph database for information retrieval — By reading this article, you will learn about the fundamental concepts behind NebulaGraph, an open-source graph database. Based on its official documentation, NebulaGraph is “… a distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability. …

Understand how CDN works Today, we will be discussing content delivery networks (CDNs). A CDN is a distributed network of edge servers that facilitates the delivery of web content to users across the globe. Traditionally, most companies rely on a single origin server and scale it horizontally to support their…

Transferring files via streaming endpoints — By reading this piece, you will learn to setup your own gRPC client and server for file uploading/downloading in Python. For your information, gRPC is known as Remote Procedure Call, a modern open-source to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services. At its core, it comes with the…

Find out if you should use SAST in your project In 2017, The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) released a report on the Top 10 most critical web application and API security risks faced by the developers worldwide. For your information, OWASP is a … non-profit organization that aims…

Identify security bugs in your Java code In this piece, you will learn to carry out SAST (static application security testing) in your Java application using SpotBugs. SAST is essential in tackling the following problems: source code vulnerabilities late diagnosis of problems lack of root-cause analysis SpotBugs is an open-source…

Level up your testing game with pytest — Testing is an important aspect of the software development lifecycle. Long gone are the days when software was 100% manually tested. Most companies are leveraging automation tools as part of the testing lifecycle. These tools help to control and automate the execution of tests on each commit or update to…

Explore the concept of sequence parallelism and selective activation re-computation — With the advancement of artificial intelligence, it is now possible to train large language models for natural language processing tasks. Typically, a large language model contains more than 100 billion parameters and is trained using advanced algorithms on a large corpus. Large language models (LLM) are very effective and able…