Ryan Giggs - DEV Community

Ryan Giggs

Nov 14

Navicat Premium 18 on Linux: a hands-on review with Postgres, SQLite, Oracle and MySQL

#postgres #database #navicat #mysql

27 min read

Ryan Giggs

Aug 30

I Built an AI Financial Analyst Over 19 Years of Safaricom's History, and Here Is Everything That Broke

#rag #googlecloud #python #ai

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Aug 18

My Data Pipeline Caught an AI Fabricating a Source. Here's What 19 Years of Safaricom's Financial Data Taught Me About Trust.

#python #gcp #dataengineering

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Aug 12

Building Container Images and Container Orchestration Fundamentals

#docker #kubernetes #devops #cloudnative

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jul 22

Containers: The Building Block of Cloud Native Architecture

#cloudnative #linux #containers #docker

6 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jul 18

Autoscaling and Serverless: Scaling Smarter in Cloud Native Systems

#cloudnative #kubernetes #devops #serverless

6 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jul 12

Measuring RAG Quality With Hit Rate and MRR — LLM Zoomcamp Module 4

#ai #python #llm #rag

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jul 5

Why Your AI Works in a Notebook But Fails in Production — LLM Zoomcamp Module 3

#rag #agents #kestra #datatalksclub

3 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jun 26

I Built a Hybrid Search Engine From Scratch — Here's What I Learned (LLM Zoomcamp 2026, Module 2)

#rag #llm #vectordatabase #datatalksclub

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4 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jun 25

Cloud Native Architecture Fundamentals: Building for the Modern Era

#cloudnative #devops #kubernetes #microservices

7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jun 21

I Just Built an Agentic RAG System From Scratch — Here's What I Learned (LLM Zoomcamp 2026, Module 1)

#llm #ai #rag #datatalksclub

3 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jun 8

I Built a Data Lakehouse to Map Kenya's Healthcare Inequality — Here's What I Learned

#dataengineering #opensource #python #healthtech

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Apr 27

I Built a Real-Time Crypto Analytics Pipeline for $0.01/Month — Here's the Full Architecture

#python #dataengineering #gcp #kafka

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11 min read

Ryan Giggs

Apr 18

Oracle GoldenGate 23ai: Powering Distributed AI with Real-Time Data Replication

#oraclegoldengate #dataengineering #generativeai #datareplication

7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Apr 9

Building the Sovereign Debt Observatory: An End-to-End ELT Pipeline on World Bank Debt Data for Low and Middle-Income Countries

#dataengineering #gcp #dbt #worldbank

10 min read

Ryan Giggs

Apr 6

Exadata AI Storage: A New Era of AI-Powered Database Infrastructure

#oracle #exadata #databaseengineering #aiinfrastructure

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Mar 30

Tech Ecosystem Observatory: How I Built a Cloud-Native Data Pipeline to Track Global Tech Layoffs vs YC Startup Activity

#dataengineering #gcp #bigquery #dbt

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Mar 16

Streaming with PyFlink and Redpanda

#dataengineering #apacheflink #kafka #python

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Ryan Giggs

Mar 16

Oracle Database 23ai: Vector Similarity Search - Exact, Approximate, and Multi-Vector Strategies

#oracleaidatabase #vectorsearch #approximatenearestneighbor

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Mar 9

Oracle Database 23ai: Creating Vectors and Understanding Distance Metrics for Similarity Search

#oracledatabase23ai #vectordatabase #vectorsearch

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Mar 7

Batch Processing with Apache Spark

#batchprocessing #spark #dataengineering #datatalksclub

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Mar 1

From APIs to Warehouses: AI-Assisted Data Ingestion with dlt

#ai #api #dataengineering #tutorial

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Ryan Giggs

Feb 26

Oracle AI Vector Search: DML and DDL Operations on Vector Columns

#oracle #oracledatabase23ai #vectordatabase #vectoroperations

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Feb 24

Data Platforms with Bruin

#googlecloud #bigquery #bruin #dataengineering

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Feb 16

Oracle AI Vector Search: Querying Vectors and Optimizing with Indexes

#oracledatabase #vectordatabase #vectorindexes #queryoptimisation

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Feb 15

Analytics Engineering

#googlecloud #analyticsengineering #dbt #dataengineering

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Feb 8

Data Warehousing & BigQuery

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Ryan Giggs

Feb 6

Oracle AI Vector Search Workflow: From Data to Semantic Search

#oracledatabase #semanticsearch #vectordatabase

11 min read

Ryan Giggs

Feb 2

Understanding Semantic Search: Vector Embeddings and Similarity Search

#semanticsearch #vectorembeddings #machinelearning

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11 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 30

Workflow Orchestration

#datatalksclub #gcp #kestra

1 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 26

Oracle AI Vector Search in Oracle Database 23ai

#oracledatabase23ai #machinelearning #vectordatabase

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6 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 23

OCI Generative AI Agents: Building Enterprise RAG Applications Without Code

#ocigenai #ai #agents #rag

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 21

RAG Pipeline Deep Dive: Ingestion, Chunking, Embedding, and Vector Search

#rag #vectorsearch #vectordatabase #embeddingmodels

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10 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 19

OCI Generative AI and LangChain: Building Enterprise AI Applications with Oracle

#langchain #ocigenai #oracledatabase23ai #rag

9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 17

OCI Generative AI Security: Dedicated GPUs, RDMA Networks, and Enterprise-Grade Data Protection

#ocigenai #cloudsecurity #aigovernance #oracle

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 15

OCI Generative AI: Dedicated Cluster Sizing, Pricing, and Fine-Tuning Deep Dive

#ocigenai #finetuning #mlops #clustersizing

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 13

Fine-Tuning and Inference in LLMs: From Custom Models to Production Deployment

#finetuning #llminference #lora #machinelearning

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Jan 6

Customizing LLMs with Your Data: A Progressive Strategy from Prompting to Fine-Tuning

#llmcustomization #rag #finetuning #ai

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 16 '25

Chat and Embedding Models in OCI Generative AI

#ocigenai #chatmodels #embeddingmodels #semanticsearch

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10 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 12 '25

OCI Generative AI Service: Enterprise-Grade LLMs on Oracle Cloud

#ocigenerativeai #cloudcomputing #oraclecloud

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10 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 10 '25

LLM Applications: From Code Generation to Autonomous Agents

#llmapplications #aiagents #multimodalai

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 7 '25

Training, Decoding, and Hallucination in Large Language Models: A Deep Dive

#llm #ai #rag

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 4 '25

Prompting and Prompt Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide to Controlling LLM Behavior

#llm #promptengineering #machinelearning #llmsecurity

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Dec 2 '25

Fundamentals of Large Language Models: Understanding LLM Architectures

#llm #deeplearning #nlp #machinelearning

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5 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 28 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Read Replicas for Scaling Read-Heavy Workloads

#mysqlheatwave #readreplicas #highavailability #databasescaling

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 26 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Migrating Your Data to HeatWave Service

#mysqlheatwave #mysqlshell #cloudmigration #datamigration

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 24 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Replicating to MySQL Server (Outbound Replication)

#mysqlheatwave #hybridcloud #databasereplication

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 21 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Replication Channels and Troubleshooting

#mysqlheatwave #oracledatabaseadministration #databasereplication

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7 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 18 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Replicating to DB System (Inbound Replication)

#mysqlheatwave #databasereplication #oracle #cloudmigration

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11 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 15 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Backing Up and Restoring DB Systems

#mysqlheatwave #databasebackup #pointintimerecovery

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12 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 12 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Connecting and Managing DB Systems

#databaseadministration #mysqlheatwave #databaseconnectivity #ocinetworking

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13 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 10 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Identifying and Testing Failover in High Availability DB Systems

#mysqlheatwave #databaseadministration #failover #oracledatabase

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13 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 7 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Creating High Availability DB Systems and Understanding Limitations

#mysqlheatwave #highavailability #oraclecloudinfrastructure

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 4 '25

MySQL HeatWave: Creating DB Systems and High Availability Setup

#mysql #highavailability #oraclecloud

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Nov 2 '25

MySQL HeatWave Architecture: A Complete Guide

#mysql #database #highavailability #clouddatabase

4 min read

Ryan Giggs

Oct 30 '25

MySQL HeatWave: The Fully Managed Multi-Cloud Database with Integrated AI

#mysqlheatwave #generativeai #machinelearning

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Oct 28 '25

Migrating to Oracle Autonomous Database: Methods, Tools, and Best Practices

#oracleautonomousdatabase #databasemigration #oracledatapump #zerodowntimemigration

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9 min read

Ryan Giggs

Oct 25 '25

Oracle Autonomous Database: Data Lake Analytics and Modern Data Sharing

#oracleautonomousdatabase #datalakehouse #datasharing

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Oct 21 '25

Oracle Autonomous Database: Machine Learning with AutoML and Natural Language Queries with Select AI

#oraclemachinelearning #automl #selectai #nlp

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8 min read

Ryan Giggs

Oct 18 '25

Oracle Autonomous Database Connectivity: Secure Connections with TLS and mTLS

#oracleautonomousdatabase #databaseconnectivity

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9 min read

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