Techie Ranch

  • Large Language Models

    A small reminder about Large Language Models (LLMs): LLMs are exactly that — models trained to predict the next word based on the given context. While they excel at generating coherent text, it’s essential to remember: They lack true comprehension ❗ Even with advanced techniques like tuning, reinforcement learning, exposure… View ⇢

  • The Log: What Every Software Engineer Should Know

    Consulting for a large UK based International Bank where the primary focus is on scaling challenges. I read this article many moons ago but many of nuance, yet fundamental concepts eluded me. Sometimes visiting the same material with expanded knowledge provides a refreshing perspective. While the specific tooling/hardware evolves, many… View ⇢

  • The falling giant: Intel’s Demise

    Intel’s Demise from glory 💻 📉 There was a time where I remember virtually every computer had an Intel microprocessor. However, Intel’s market share has recently declined significantly, dropping from an estimated ,$80 billion to $53 billion. Intel’s fall from grace attributed to several factors: 1. Intel was slow to… View ⇢

  • a.i. – brief history

    The journey of AI in the past decade has been eventful, to say the least, thou its roots extend much further back. There have been numerous milestones and achievements by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers alike; however if I were to highlight three key milestones, they would be: – 1950: Turning… View ⇢

  • OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Founded in 2001 the Open Web Application Security Project is a non-profit global organization that strives to promote application security across the web. One of OWASP’s core principles is that all of their materials will be freely available and easily accessible making it possible… View ⇢

  • In the Big-O notation

    In computer science the Big-O notation is used to describe the performance or the algorithmic complexity of an algorithm. This short post will describe some of these notations. To demystify the simple math behind these notations we shall use straightforward Java code examples. The notations we shall explore are the… View ⇢

  • Java Features: Brief history

    Introduction In this post am are going to look at some of the new features introduced to the Java language from versions 7,8,9,10,11 & 12. By no means should this list be considered as a comprehensive feature list, but I shall aim to capture some of the more striking features… View ⇢

  • Design Patterns – The when viewpoint

    Inevitably throughout your career you will come up across problems that have already been solved in one way or another. This blog is NOT going to describe the common design patterns as stated by the GOF in 1994; there are plenty of good blogs that do that. Alternatively, this post… View ⇢

  • S.O.L.I.D Principles

    In this post we’re going to dive into the S.O.L.I.D design principles. We’re going to do this by using code examples & illustrations. One of the best ways to understand theseprinciples is by solving a business case with code that violates these principles and then refactoring the code to adhere… View ⇢

Meet the tech consultant & content creator, Ithar Malik.

Tech veteran with 20+ years of tech adventures & still geeking out! Started when XML was cool, now playing with AI. Talk about a tech journey! 🚀


BSc Artificial Intelligence graduate before ChatGPT was a thing. MSc Internet Computing to keep it real.

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