Alex Jacobs

AI Systems Integration | Data Science | Full-Stack Development | DevOps | Bioinformatics

A Computer Made This

The past 24 hours have had me navigating an existential crisis while simultaneously being gaslit by friends, family, and colleagues about what’s going on. And that’s probably fair of them—I have a tendency to overreact to things, to be a bit dramatic. I am 100% the guy in this panel right now. But 4o image generation is insane. I’ve been working in the LLM space since before ChatGPT shifted everything. I’ve closely followed the progress....

March 27, 2025 516 words 3 min

RAG: From Context Injection to Knowledge Integration

A technical dive into the limitations of current RAG approaches, examining architectural challenges and exploring pathways to more integrated knowledge-aware LLM architectures.

February 17, 2025 870 words 5 min

Deep Dive into Python Async Programming

A deep dive into Python's asynchronous programming model, exploring the event loop, coroutines, tasks, futures, and the under-the-hood mechanisms that make it all work.

January 28, 2024 3467 words 17 min

Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI

Integration Testing FastAPI: Harnessing the Power of Mocking Backend Services with MongoMock, MockS3, and More

June 11, 2023 3618 words 17 min

CheeseGPT

A (Very) Simple RAG Tutorial

March 14, 2023 2596 words 13 min

Effective Error Handling

A simple an effective approach for handling end users who struggle with errors

December 14, 2022 915 words 5 min

Running Jupyter lab behind NGINX--Part 2

This multipart blog will walk through our setup running Jupyter Lab, using Nginx as a reverse proxy using a sidecar pattern to deploy to EC2.

June 15, 2022 688 words 4 min

Running Jupyter lab behind NGINX--Part 1

This multipart blog will walk through our setup running Jupyter Lab, using Nginx as a reverse proxy using a sidecar pattern to deploy to EC2.

May 8, 2022 592 words 3 min

Splitting SRA into FASTQ with SRAToolkit, Python, and Docker

A simple example using Python and Docker to split an SRA file into Fastq

April 3, 2022 1373 words 7 min