A technical blog by Riyaz Ali — thoughts on software, AI, and observability.https://riyazali.net/https://riyazali.net/posts/streaming-responses/https://riyazali.net/posts/streaming-responses/Using streaming to make a snappier user-experienceSat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/understanding-system-prompts/https://riyazali.net/posts/understanding-system-prompts/Persistence and framing: how system prompts shape multi‑turn behaviorThu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/multi-turn-conversations/https://riyazali.net/posts/multi-turn-conversations/Step towards Building contextMon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/anatomy-of-a-message/https://riyazali.net/posts/anatomy-of-a-message/Digging through the core concept of a message in LLMSun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/buidling-with-ai/https://riyazali.net/posts/buidling-with-ai/From demo to productSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/observability-in-action-exploring-logs-metrics-and-traces/https://riyazali.net/posts/observability-in-action-exploring-logs-metrics-and-traces/In the previous posts, we discussed the Grafana Stack's components and how to set up a single-node deployment. Now, let's bring it all together by exploring how to visualize and analyze logs, metri...Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/beginners-guide-to-setting-up-grafana-stack/https://riyazali.net/posts/beginners-guide-to-setting-up-grafana-stack/This post will guide you through setting up a single-node deployment of the Grafana Stack – including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo – using Docker Compose.Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/observability-with-grafana-stack/https://riyazali.net/posts/observability-with-grafana-stack/In modern software systems, especially those with distributed architectures, merely knowing "what happened" isn't enough. We also need to understand "why it happened".Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/the-less-taken-path-with-sqlite/https://riyazali.net/posts/the-less-taken-path-with-sqlite/Lately, I've been tinkering around a bit with sqlite3, and this post contains a brief of some exciting set of features and interfaces that I've re-discovered during the process.Sat, 27 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/berkeley-packet-filter-in-golang/https://riyazali.net/posts/berkeley-packet-filter-in-golang/Recently I stumbled upon a use case where I was looking to setup a Wireguard (udp) tunnel across two nodes behind different NATs. I wanted to implement something like UDP Hole Punching and came ac...Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/using-interfaces-in-go/https://riyazali.net/posts/using-interfaces-in-go/Exploring how to effectively use interfaces in Go — common patterns, pitfalls, and tips for developers coming from Java or C#.Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/why-documentation-matters/https://riyazali.net/posts/why-documentation-matters/Why good documentation matters in software engineering — it goes way beyond code comments.Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/git-workflow/https://riyazali.net/posts/git-workflow/In this post I'm going to write about the fork-clone-pull that we've been using for some time now at work.Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/design-docs/https://riyazali.net/posts/design-docs/A design doc — also known as a technical spec — is a description of how you plan to solve a problem. It's one of the most useful tool for making sure the right work gets done.Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/google-image-proxy/https://riyazali.net/posts/google-image-proxy/Continuing with app that I created as a project for the Udacity Android Nanodegree program, I faced a new challenge! The challenge was to load poster images from TMDb Image server inside my app!Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/android-support-paging-library/https://riyazali.net/posts/android-support-paging-library/Recently, I was working on a project for the Udacity Android Nanodegree program to develop an Android application for TMDb to list movies using the TMDb API.Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://riyazali.net/posts/discourse-login-on-android/https://riyazali.net/posts/discourse-login-on-android/Implementing user authentication for a Discourse-powered forum in an Android app using the session cookie approach.Tue, 10 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMT