ai Featured Vector Search & RAG: A Practical Mental Model for Semantic and Conversational Search Vector search, semantic search, and RAG are often used interchangeably. This article introduces a simple mental model to distinguish these search types, techniques, and tools to hopefully help you get a clearer idea of when to use each.
ai Vector Search: Implementing Semantic Search with OpenSearch This article walks through a minimal proof of concept for implementing semantic search with OpenSearch. The focus is on showing how embeddings, indexing, and vector search fit together in practice.
ai Vector Search & RAG: Implementing Conversational Search with OpenSearch & Open AI Conversational search builds on retrieval, not just on LLMs. This article shows how a simple RAG layer can be added on top of semantic search using OpenSearch and OpenAI, keeping retrieval and generation separated for clarity.
careeer development Featured Give Them a Break and Give Them Feedback: Building Better Relationships With Your Manager A practical, human guide for ICs on working better with managers through curiosity, empathy, and honest feedback.
A leader’s guide to active and reflective listening Listening is one of those skills I’m always trying to improve, it’s definitely one of the hardest for me. Even now, it's something I continue to struggle with. One of the challenges I’ve faced is around the advice to ask open-ended questions. While it’s
careeer development Featured Finding your path forward So you might be wondering, are you here writing yet another article, giving advice about what makes a good Senior Developer? Well... no
kotlin Featured Mongo Change Streams with Server-Sent Events in SpringBoot and Kotlin Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a mechanism that can be used as an alternative to WebSockets to push streaming data to a client, there are many fundamental differences and a quick google search for “SSE vs WebSockets” will give you a lot of details if you want to understand both technologies
kotlin Avoiding nested streams in Spring Webflux & Kotlin Reactive programming can be very exciting and fun to learn but it also can be challenging if you are used to more imperative programming.
postgres Featured Introduction to Spring Data R2DBC with Kotlin R2DBC is a specification that provides database connectivity in a non blocking way and Spring Data R2DBC is one of the implementations of this specification. Reactive Connectivity for Relational Databases is still relatively new and, if like me, you are working with Kotlin it can be a little bit challenging
liquibase Featured Managing Database migrations with Liquibase and Spring Boot When I worked on my first Backend project, I realized how useful it was to have a process that allows you to track and manage changes in the Database and to be able to do it in a way that was easy to apply or rollback these changes to your different environments.
nfc To The Core of Core NFC Core NFC is an Apple framework that allows developers to interact with the iPhone’s internal NFC device. In this article we will talk about how to use it to read and write NFC tags.
kotlin How to use Spotify’s SDK in Kotlin On October last year I was on my journey of learning Kotlin when I decided to make an App for my boyfriend, I wanted to combine my interest for Kotlin and music, and at the same time create a nice gift for his birthday. The app was a called MixTape,
Charles Guide to Charles Proxy Last year Detroit Labs published a book I wrote about Charles Proxy and now that I finally have my personal website I wanted to share it here too.
Public Speaking Featured How I Survived My First Conference Talk as an Introvert I have always considered myself an introvert and as such I never thought it was possible for me to speak at a conference, especially at an International conference in a language that is not my native language.
