Samuel Olubukun's Blog

AI Security & Governance: The Enterprise Field Guide

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive enterprise field guide distilled from Securiti's AI Security & Governance certification. Covers AI security, model discovery, NIST AI RMF, Gartner TRiSM, OWASP Top 10 LLM Risks, LLM Firewalls, and global regulations like the EU AI Act.

AI Engineering Part 5: Production Deployment, Evals & Monitoring

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The grand finale of our AI Engineering masterclass series. Master LLM Evaluation Suites (Evals), LLM-as-a-Judge, Latency Optimization (TTFT, TBT, vLLM), Semantic Caching, and Observability.

AI Engineering Part 4: Agents, Tool Use & Autonomous Systems

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 4 of our AI Engineering masterclass series. Explore autonomous AI Agents: ReAct execution loops, Function Calling mechanics, Multi-Agent Orchestration, E2B Sandboxing, and Prompt Injection defenses.

AI Engineering Part 3: RAG Pipelines & Vector Databases

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 3 of our AI Engineering masterclass series. Dive deep into Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Chunking algorithms, Vector Embeddings, HNSW vs IVF indexing, Hybrid Search (BM25 + Dense), RRF, and Cross-Encoder Reranking.

AI Engineering Part 2: Prompt Engineering, Context Windows & Structured Outputs

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of our AI Engineering masterclass series. Explore advanced Prompt Engineering (CoT, Tree-of-Thoughts), Tokenizer mechanics, Context Window dynamics, and guaranteed Structured JSON Outputs with Zod and Pydantic.

AI Engineering Part 1: Fundamentals of Foundation Models

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The first in a 5-part masterclass series on AI Engineering. Deep dive into Foundation Model architectures, Pre-training vs SFT vs RLHF/DPO, GPU VRAM calculations, Quantization (GGUF, AWQ), and Build vs Buy.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Part 5: The Future of Data Systems

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The grand finale of our DDIA masterclass series. We synthesize the entire book to explore Unbundling the Database, Derived Data vs Source of Truth, Lambda/Kappa architectures, End-to-End Correctness, and Data Ethics.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Part 4: Batch & Stream Processing

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 4 of our DDIA masterclass series. Explore MapReduce, Spark, Distributed Join Algorithms, Log-Based Stream Processing (Apache Kafka), Event Sourcing, and Change Data Capture (CDC).

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Part 3: Transactions & Consistency

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 3 of our DDIA masterclass series. Delve into ACID properties, MVCC, Weak Isolation Levels, Concurrency Bugs (Write Skew, Phantoms), Two-Phase Commit (2PC), and Distributed Consensus.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Part 2: Distributed Data

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

Part 2 of our DDIA masterclass series. Explore the deep mechanics of Distributed Data: Single-Leader, Multi-Leader, Leaderless Replication, Quorum Math, Replication Lag anomalies, and Partitioning.

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Part 1: Foundations of Data Systems

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The first in a 5-part masterclass series on Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Deep dive into Reliability, Scalability, Maintainability, Data Models (Relational, Document, Graph), and Storage Engines (LSM-trees vs B-trees).

Decoding 'Attention Is All You Need': The Paper That Changed AI Forever

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive deep dive into the Transformer architecture from the groundbreaking 'Attention Is All You Need' paper. Learn about Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Positional Encoding, and why Transformers revolutionized NLP.