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Understanding the potential of Modulith architecture

In software architecture, it is always about finding the best solution for your use case and your application in your specific context. Based on that, you have the challenge to find the right balance between flexibility and simplicity. We often must decide between a monolithic system and a microservice architecture. For a long time, the monolithic architecture has been the way to go. Then, microservices came up and most architectures followed way. This blogpost is about the relatively new architecture approach of modulith that finds its place in-between the other two approaches and tries to combine their benefits.

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Metric-Driven Development of a RAG system

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of pros and cons of LLM APIs
  • Preliminary knowledge of RAG structure

Introduction

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is commonly used to enhance the performance of LLM-based systems or incorporate domain-specific knowledge to improve the generated answers of the LLM. However, effectively evaluating and tracking the performance of a RAG system is not straightforward, posing a real challenge in the development and monitoring of such systems in a production environment.

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Creating an iCalendar event with HTML content

Introduction

One of the most used open standards open for exchanging calendar and scheduling information between users and computers is iCalendar. An iCalendar file is simply a text file with .ics extensions. Since this is open standard, it is supported by many apps, such as Outlook. The icalendar.org website provides a great introduction and some history about the iCalendar standard.

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API first - the new way of software development

In recent years there have been constant changes in the light of software development, just like the focus when starting a new project. Nowadays, the focus of a new software project should be on the APIs of the software. This requires a rethinking from the perspective of architects and developers, it has distinct advantages and makes work contributions easier.

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