Face detection is a powerful computer vision capability with wide-ranging applications across industries. In this post, I’ll describe how I built a demo application which performs real-time face detection on a video stream. This application is a flexible platform for demonstrating AI inference capabilities across …

I’m looking at event-based architectures as a method for building loosely coupled relationships between products. To this end I am creating various functions which I’d like to trigger on an event in a product. Knative is an extension of Kubernetes which enables serverless workloads to run on Kubernetes. …

Following on from base Ubuntu build here I begin to look at Parrallel Programming. Parrallel Programming Each Raspberry Pi is a small unit of compute, one of my goals is to understand how operating many in a cluster. There are various approaches to parallel computational models, message-passing has proven to be an …

I was looking to programaticly configuring VMware Storage Profile recently. My scripting language of choice is Python, VMware maintain pyVmomi is which is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API. pyVmomi can be used to form binding and configure the vSphere Web Services API and the VMware Storage Policy API. The …

My former colleagues had made me aware of pyVmomi an open source library which VMware provide and mostly maintain for managing vSphere, so its here I shall start. Since then NSX for vSphere has also an open source library NSX RAML Client provided by VMware so I’ll then move to that. I am performing this learning …

The goal of this post is to walk through the creation of a AWS test environment which I use to explore the Python SDK interactions with DyanmoDB. For learning I use the free tier and so used to create the environment as needed manually. After doing this once I decided to encapsulate the configuration in a Cloud …

My goal here is to setup a simple RESTful API which accepts GET and POST methods to trigger a Lambda Function to read and put information into DynamoDB. First we’ll create a test DynamoDB table and put some items into it, aws dynamodb create-table --table-name 'MyTable' --attribute-definitions …