In Part 1 we covered the philosophy and series overview. In Part 1.1 we built the sample data generator. Now let's build the core system. This part focuses on: Zero-PII profile architecture - Ephemeral sessions vs persistent profiles Signals and weights - What…
Yes and no, I've ALWAYS been able to have multiple ideas in my head at the same time and let them coalesce until it's something I can build (I gave up all the 'social life' parts so it's not ALL GOOD!). I can write pages on each idea and DO all the time (check…
NuGet npm .NET Node.js This is Part 4 of the DocSummarizer series. See Part 1 for the architecture, Part 2 for the CLI tool, or Part 3 for the deep dive on embeddings. The hard part of RAG isn't the LLM. It's everything before the LLM. You've probably seen the…
Microservices have become the default "serious system" architecture. If you want to sound mature, you talk about service meshes, event buses, distributed tracing, and "independent deployability". If you want to look enterprise-ready, you draw boxes until the…
HTTP didn't evolve. It was forced to change by physics, latency, and misuse. Every version exists because the previous one hit a hard constraint. If you understand those constraints, you understand why the web works the way it does - and why so many "best…