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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lattice-Based Cryptography and Mathematical Foundations
CryptographyPost-Quantum Cryptography • Part 2

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lattice-Based Cryptography and Mathematical Foundations

A comprehensive deep-dive into lattice-based cryptography, the mathematical backbone of post-quantum security. Explore the geometry of lattices, the Learning With Errors problem, and how ML-KEM and ML-DSA achieve quantum resistance.

Jan 9, 202627 min read
Trajectory Reconstruction: Interpolation
Cybersecurity & Maritime IntelligenceMaritime Domain Awareness • Part 4

Trajectory Reconstruction: Interpolation

Our Interpolation engine reconstructs vessel trajectories during AIS data gaps using physics-based cubic spline interpolation, quadratic speed modeling, and smooth angular transitions to create continuous, realistic paths.

Jan 6, 20265 min read
Correlation Engine: Matching Detections to Vessel Identities
Cybersecurity & Maritime IntelligenceMaritime Domain Awareness • Part 3

Correlation Engine: Matching Detections to Vessel Identities

A deep technical dive into the Correlation Engine of OS², exploring the mathematics of weighted bipartite matching, the physics of kinematic coherence, and the algorithmic elegance of the Hungarian method in fusing anonymous satellite detections with AIS identity data.

Jan 6, 20267 min read
Vessel Detection
Cybersecurity & Maritime IntelligenceMaritime Domain Awareness • Part 2

Vessel Detection

An exhaustive technical exploration of the dual-sensor vessel detection architecture within OS², dissecting the physics of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Electro-Optical (EO) imagery, the implementation of Vision and Swin Transformers, and the mathematical rigor of multi-scale feature pyramids.

Jan 6, 202610 min read
Maritime Domain Awareness System: Technical Overview
Cybersecurity & Maritime IntelligenceMaritime Domain Awareness • Part 1

Maritime Domain Awareness System: Technical Overview

Discover how AstraQ's OS² Maritime Domain Awareness system transforms fragmented satellite imagery and vessel tracking data into coherent, actionable intelligence through automated detection, intelligent correlation, and predictive analysis.

Jan 5, 20267 min read
Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Quantum Threat and Cryptographic Foundations
CryptographyPost-Quantum Cryptography • Part 1

Post-Quantum Cryptography: The Quantum Threat and Cryptographic Foundations

A comprehensive deep-dive into the mathematical foundations of post-quantum cryptography. Understand Shor's algorithm, Grover's algorithm, and why current cryptographic systems are vulnerable to quantum attacks.

Jan 5, 202621 min read
AstraQ Cyber Defence Shortlisted Among Top 6 Teams for AI Grand Challenge at IIT Delhi
Achievements

AstraQ Cyber Defence Shortlisted Among Top 6 Teams for AI Grand Challenge at IIT Delhi

AstraQ Cyber Defence selected among top 6 finalists for the NCIIPC Startup India AI Grand Challenge for their advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system.

Dec 29, 20254 min read
LangChain 1.0: An Introduction
AI & Machine Learning

LangChain 1.0: An Introduction

An introduction to LangChain 1.0, featuring real-world code examples for building production-ready AI agents.

Nov 27, 20255 min read
Control Plane Resilience: Handling Cascading Failures in Distributed Orchestration
System DesignSecure Workload Orchestration • Part 5

Control Plane Resilience: Handling Cascading Failures in Distributed Orchestration

Building fault-tolerant control planes with circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and bulkheads to prevent cascading failures in distributed workload orchestration systems.

Nov 21, 202511 min read
Enterprise Audit Logging and Monitoring: The Missing Piece of the Control Plane
System DesignSecure Workload Orchestration • Part 4

Enterprise Audit Logging and Monitoring: The Missing Piece of the Control Plane

Implementing tamper-proof audit logging and real-time monitoring for ephemeral workloads using Go middleware, ClickHouse, and the Decorator pattern.

Nov 17, 20259 min read
Zero-Trust Networking for AI Agents: Protecting Your Internal VPC
SecuritySecure Workload Orchestration • Part 3

Zero-Trust Networking for AI Agents: Protecting Your Internal VPC

Preventing SSRF and lateral movement by dynamically provisioning Kubernetes Network Policies for untrusted workloads.

Nov 13, 20254 min read
Hardening the Control Plane: From Pods to MicroVMs
System DesignSecure Workload Orchestration • Part 2

Hardening the Control Plane: From Pods to MicroVMs

Securing your workload orchestrator by swapping standard Containers for Firecracker MicroVMs using Kata Containers and the Go WorkloadRuntime interface.

Nov 9, 20254 min read
Building a Polymorphic Workload Orchestrator with Go and Kubernetes
System DesignSecure Workload Orchestration • Part 1

Building a Polymorphic Workload Orchestrator with Go and Kubernetes

Learn how to build a scalable control plane for on-demand AI agents and data tasks using Go interfaces, Redis queues, and Kubernetes.

Nov 5, 20256 min read
Guardrails for RAG: Preventing Hallucinations and Ensuring Factual Accuracy
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 6

Guardrails for RAG: Preventing Hallucinations and Ensuring Factual Accuracy

A comprehensive guide to preventing hallucinations in RAG systems. Learn self-consistency checks, retrieval grounding verification, citation enforcement, and production-ready guardrail patterns.

Nov 1, 202514 min read
Scaling RAG Systems: Caching, Sharding, and Performance Optimization
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 5

Scaling RAG Systems: Caching, Sharding, and Performance Optimization

A comprehensive guide to scaling RAG systems for enterprise workloads. Learn caching strategies, collection sharding, replication patterns, and performance optimization techniques to handle millions of queries.

Oct 29, 202518 min read
Building Multi-Tenant RAG Systems: Isolation and Resource Management
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 4

Building Multi-Tenant RAG Systems: Isolation and Resource Management

A comprehensive guide to implementing tenant isolation, resource quotas, and data privacy in multi-tenant RAG systems. Learn production-ready patterns for secure and scalable AI applications.

Oct 25, 202513 min read
Evaluating RAG Systems with RAGAS: Metrics That Matter
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 3

Evaluating RAG Systems with RAGAS: Metrics That Matter

A comprehensive guide to evaluating RAG systems using RAGAS framework. Learn how to measure faithfulness, answer relevancy, context precision, and context recall to build reliable AI applications.

Oct 21, 202513 min read
Building Multi-Hop RAG Agents with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 2

Building Multi-Hop RAG Agents with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Learn how to build advanced RAG agents that can perform multi-hop reasoning, query restructuring, and use retrieval as a tool with LangChain, chain-of-thought, and multi-shot prompting.

Oct 17, 202510 min read
Building Production-Ready RAG Systems: A Complete Guide
AI & Machine LearningRAG Complete Guide • Part 1

Building Production-Ready RAG Systems: A Complete Guide

A comprehensive guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using Python, Qdrant, and FastEmbed with hybrid search combining dense, sparse, and late interaction embeddings.

Oct 13, 20259 min read
AstraQ Cyber Defence Wins Grant for Innovative Phishing Detection Solution at IMC 2025
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AstraQ Cyber Defence Wins Grant for Innovative Phishing Detection Solution at IMC 2025

AstraQ Cyber Defence recognized for innovative AI-driven phishing detection at Indian Mobile Congress 2025.

Oct 8, 20254 min read
The Rising Threat of Phishing: One Click Can Cost You Everything
Security

The Rising Threat of Phishing: One Click Can Cost You Everything

An in-depth look at modern phishing tactics, the role of AI in cybercrime, and how to defend against evolving digital threats.

Oct 6, 20258 min read