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From knowing to doing — Phase 4 of the Jarvis AI Platform The Problem with Knowledge-Only AI After Phase 3, Jarvis could remember you across sessions and search your documents. But it still had a fundamental limitation. You: "What is the weather in Kathmandu right now?" Jarvis: "I don't have access to real-time weather data." You: "What is 2847 × 391?" Jarvis: "The answer is approximately 1.1 million." ← WRONG An AI that only knows things from training data is useful. An AI that can do things is transformative. That is what Phase 4 built. What Is a Tool Engine? A tool engine gives the AI model the ability to call real functions during a conversation. The flow looks like this: User: "What is the weather in Kathmandu?" ↓ AI Model ↓ "I should call WeatherTool" ↓ WeatherTool.getWeather("Kathmandu") ↓ "22°C, Clear sky, Humidity: 45%" ↓ AI Model ↓ "The weather in Kathmandu is 22°C and clear." The key insight: the AI decides when to call a tool and with what input . We don't hardcode "if user asks about weather, call WeatherTool." The model figures that out from the tool descriptions we provide. The Architecture Decision The most important architectural decision in Phase 4 was the package structure. ai . jarvis . tools / ├── JarvisTool . java ← marker interface ( root ) ├── ToolRegistry . java ← manages all tools ( root ) ├── builtin / ← built - in tools │ ├── DateTimeTool . java │ ├── CalculatorTool . java │ ├── WeatherTool . java │ └── WebSearchTool . java └── mcp / ← MCP protocol └── McpServerConfig . java Why not put tools inside ai/ ? The ai/ package handles HOW Jarvis talks to AI models. Tools define WHAT Jarvis can do. These are fundamentally different responsibilities. Mixing them would mean every new tool requires changes to AI infrastructure code. Keeping them, separate means adding a new tool requires exactly one file. The JarvisTool Pattern Every tool in Jarvis implements one interface. /** * Marker interface for all Jarvis tools. * Spring auto-discovers all @C

Force nginx to TLS 1.3 An nginx server is accepting an old TLS version, and the exam wants it locked to TLS one point three. The config lives in a ConfigMap. The catch is that editing the ConfigMap alone changes nothing. Let's do it the way the CKA expects. 🎥 Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx-77YBw99w This is a CKA Workloads & Scheduling walkthrough. Every command below is real output from a live cluster, and you can reproduce the whole thing yourself (scripts at the end). The scenario An nginx-static Deployment serves HTTPS, and its server config comes from a ConfigMap named nginx-config. Right now it allows both TLS one point two and one point three. Your task is to allow only TLS one point three, then make nginx actually use the change, so that a TLS one point two request fails. nginx-static serves HTTPS from the nginx-config ConfigMap It currently allows TLS 1.2 AND 1.3 Restrict ssl_protocols to TLS 1.3 only A TLS 1.2 request to the Service must then fail How nginx, ConfigMaps, and rolling restarts fit together Two ideas drive this. First, ssl_protocols is an allow list; leave only TLSv1.3 and nginx rejects any older handshake. Second, a ConfigMap mounted into a pod updates the file on disk, but nginx only reads ssl_protocols when it starts. So you must roll the Deployment, with kubectl rollout restart, for the new value to take effect. Inspect the current state Start by seeing what is running and what the config says. The nginx-static Deployment, its Service on port four forty three, and the nginx-config ConfigMap are all here. Grep the rendered ConfigMap for the ssl_protocols line: it lists TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3, so old clients still get in. $ kubectl -n nginx-static get deploy,svc,configmap NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE deployment.apps/nginx-static 1/1 1 1 17h deployment.apps/tester 1/1 1 1 17h NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE service/nginx-static ClusterIP 10.96.13.162 <none> 443/TCP 17h NAME DATA AGE configmap/kube-root-ca.

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer and LaTeX to a serverless Rust architecture powered by Typst can drop render latencies below 2ms. He shares how applying Git and Docker concepts to template registries ensures ironclad compliance and rapid debugging. By Erik Steiger

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Let’s be honest, the tech we use today is amazing, but it can also be complex. It’s only natural that teams want to build platforms that hide this complexity to improve productivity, avoid mistakes, and reduce cognitive load. But they may be misled to believe that the more complexity they hide, the better their platform is. Instead, they end up creating dangerous illusions! This talk reflects on two decades of building complex distributed systems, highlighting where abstractions helped and where illusions led to major disappointments. submitted by /u/goto-con [link] [留言]

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