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Long-Term Memory for Chatbots: Langchain's Agent Solution

Long-Term Memory for Chatbots: Langchain's Agent Solution

Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and virtual assistants, the quest for ever-more sophisticated capabilities has reached new heights. Among the myriad innovations driving this evolution, Langchain emerges as a beacon of transformative potential, offering a groundbreaking solution poised to redefine the very fabric of human-bot interactions:

Elevating AI Models: The Art and Science of OpenAI Fine-Tuning

Elevating AI Models: The Art and Science of OpenAI Fine-Tuning

Introduction Fine-tuning, in the realm of machine learning and AI, refers to the process of taking a pre-trained model and adapting it to a new, more specific task or dataset. This method is particularly valuable when working with large-scale language models or deep neural networks like those offered by OpenAI.

ResumeGPT: Enhancing Job Seekers' Journey through AI.

ResumeGPT: Enhancing Job Seekers' Journey through AI.

‌ Introduction In today's fast-changing world of web applications, using artificial intelligence (AI) can make a huge difference. This article is about our internal project, ResumeGPT - a special kind of web application built with Next.js and leveraging the power of AI. We built it to make a real change

How we structure our Terraform project

How we structure our Terraform project

The difficult part about structuring a Terraform project is that several solutions exist and there is no universal guide. The code structure would highly depend on the size of the project, complexity, the number of environments, how often the infrastructure changes, etc... For simple projects which contain just a few

Automating infrastructure deployments with Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions

Automating infrastructure deployments with Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions

In this article, I will continue the discussion from this [https://blog.softup.co/p/033f4766-780c-45b1-b448-40cc68c3f7a8/] section and present one way how we can automate our infrastructure and application deployments using Terraform Cloud and GitHub Actions. As it was mentioned in the other article, we will suppose that our system

Empowering Career Growth @ Softup Technologies

Empowering Career Growth @ Softup Technologies

Growth is essential for any individual, and since companies are a union of individuals, growth becomes essential for the existence of a company as well. Without growth, there is stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence, and pestilence is followed by death. Ok, that was dramatic on purpose, but I want

Build a webhook system using AWS and Ruby on Rails framework

Build a webhook system using AWS and Ruby on Rails framework

Have you ever wondered how you could use Amazon Web Services to start your own webhook triggering system? Many developers would go with the classic workflow by directly using HTTP requests without any fail handling or retry policy. Integrating with AWS can be easier than it looks. This article tends

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Paying for Bad Experiences

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Paying for Bad Experiences

This is PART 4 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges. Go back and check out PART 3: "Software Outsourcing Challenges: No Skin in the Game". Software development is always on the cutting edge of technological advances. It’s the foundation that allows us to

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Vendor Lock-in

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Vendor Lock-in

This is PART 5 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges. Go back and check out previous posts: 1. Software Outsourcing Challenges: Billing Models 2. Software Outsourcing Challenges: Buyer's Remorse 3. Software Outsourcing Challenges: No Skin in the Game 4. Software Outsourcing Challenges: Paying for

Software Outsourcing Challenges: No Skin in the Game

Software Outsourcing Challenges: No Skin in the Game

This is PART 3 of a blog series that details the challenges of outsourcing software development. Go back and check PART 2: "Software Outsourcing Challenges: Buyer's Remorse". Software development is always on the cutting edge of technological advances. It’s the foundation that allows us to design tools that make

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Buyer's Remorse

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Buyer's Remorse

This is PART 2 of a blog series that details software development outsourcing risks and challenges. Go back and check out PART 1: "Software Outsourcing Challenges: Billing Models". Software development is always on the cutting edge of technological know-how. It’s the foundation that allows us to design tools that

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Billing Models

Software Outsourcing Challenges: Billing Models

Software development is the type of industry that is always on the cutting edge of technological advances. It’s the foundation that allows us to design tools that make our lives easier and stay ahead of the game. But developing software is far from easy and takes a lot of

Softup partners with Swiss project RisiAlbania to connect European companies with Albanian developers

Softup partners with Swiss project RisiAlbania to connect European companies with Albanian developers

Softup Technologies [https://softup.co/] has finalized a partnership with RisiAlbania [https://www.risialbania.al/] (an innovative project, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development [https://www.eda.admin.ch/tirana] and Cooperation, in partnership with the Ministry of Finance and Economy, implemented by Helvetas [https://www.helvetas.org/en/

How to deploy a monorepo to multiple Heroku apps using GitHub Actions

How to deploy a monorepo to multiple Heroku apps using GitHub Actions

This article shows how to deploy a Node.js and React.js monorepo to multiple Heroku applications using GitHub Actions.

Serverless architecture reference (P-1)

Serverless architecture reference (P-1)

Inspiration At Softup Technologies we tend to build robust, easy maintainable applications and trying to keep the infrastructure cost at the minimal. This is one of the reasons we thought of building a Serverless architecture reference on AWS. Going serverless where it is needed, can cut the costs at a

Building a ML model that predicts news category given a news title

Building a ML model that predicts news category given a news title

In the following article, we will discuss about the Naive Bayes classification algorithm, its mathematical representational and we will train a model on Python that predicts news categories given news titles. Most cases of classification in language processing are done via supervised machine learning, that is a process where we

Node.js Internals: Not everything happens on the thread pool

Node.js Internals: Not everything happens on the thread pool

One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to Node is that every asynchronous operation is handled by Libuv’s thread pool. There are numerous articles and diagrams online which tend to explain Node’s runtime architecture and most of them show a standard Reactor pattern, where all the heavy

Node.js Internals: Event loop in action

Node.js Internals: Event loop in action

In this part, we will go through some Node.js code snippets to see how the event loop behaves and how it affects code execution. But first, let’s recap how the event loop actually works by using a diagram from this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNa9OMajw9w] talk

Node.js Internals: Libuv and the event loop behind the curtain

Node.js Internals: Libuv and the event loop behind the curtain

Introduction During Node’s original presentation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY] in 2009, Ryan Dahl’s (i.e. creator of Node) thesis was: “I/O needs to be done differently”. At the beginning of the talk, he gives a simple example of a program that does a database

Node.js Internals: An introduction to Node’s runtime and architecture

Node.js Internals: An introduction to Node’s runtime and architecture

Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for executing Javascript outside the browser. It is backed by Google’s V8 engine, which makes it extremely performant. An asynchronous event-driven runtime One of the most common statements that we encounter when we are introduced to Node is that

Automated provisioning and deployments with Ansible, Docker, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

Automated provisioning and deployments with Ansible, Docker, and Bitbucket Pipelines.

In this article we will talk about automating the whole server provisioning and deployment process of an application. Tools we will use: * Ansible [https://docs.ansible.com/] Ansible is an open-source automation tool, or platform, used for tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration and provisioning. * Docker [https:

E2E Testing without the boring part — A tutorial on Cypress (part 1)

E2E Testing without the boring part — A tutorial on Cypress (part 1)

How to use Cypress to make E2E tests on your web application, unit tests on your backend, and more... For whom is this article? Well, there are a couple of reasons on why you might wanna read this article: 1. You’re interested in the process of testing/structuring enterprise

Our Tech Stack — In a nutshell

Our Tech Stack — In a nutshell

When we started Softup Technologies, we wanted to use best industry practices and deliver high quality solutions that our clients deserve, but without breaking their bank! After evaluating carefully different technologies, we decided to go all-in 🎰 with Javascript. Why did we choose Javascript? * Possibility to implement Web, Mobile & Backend applications.