Qdrant is a database that allows doing sematinc search on your content by allowing you to do vector similarity search. That means you can take your embeddings —or vectors, they are practically the same thing— from OpenAI’s embedding service, store them in Qdrant, and then perform queries against them. You can use this to add …
I’m consulting for a company that the had a crucial team member taking “extended vacations”. Ouch! That made me think of how it was super important not to have “single point of failures” your team. Meaning, almost always ensure that at least two team members know how to handle a given piece of software or …
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Next.js has become one of my favorite tools for developing SaaS apps. Vercel as well has conquered my heart as Heroku did several years ago. This is a humble list of ideas that I’d love to see implemented. I’m sure Vercel’s leaders have already thought of this. But in any case I’d love to share …
Image credits xkcd Hey there! Since my last tutorial, I’ve talked to many devs learning React to see what was the thing that they were having the most trouble with. The unanimous answer, without a doubt, was testing. Not only they were confused on how to do it but on why they should do it. …
Multitenancy is the pattern of serving multiple clients from a single codebase. Each client is called a “tenant” and is able to customize part of the application, i.e: the URL, the branding, some rules, etc… The following are some examples of multi-tenancy makes sense: A no-code website creator that also provides hosting. For example, each …
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I’m of the idea that you can very easily distinguish good sites from expert sites. The core difference is in the level of attention to detail. To me, one of the things that subconsciously makes me go “Wow!” when I see a site are the subtle animations. Take a look at stripe.com for example. They …
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Hi there! In this post I want to show a possible scenario/problem that may appear in some applications and lay down the basics of the technique used to solve it. The first scenario The scenario we’re talking about is one in which there’s an application whose logic is so complex that some performance inefficiencies start …
Advanced Promises in Javascript (Dataloader Pattern) Read More »
Hey there! Some months ago Deno —a kind of successor to Node.js— was released and in the homepage a figured a little demo of how to use it: Suddenly my eyes went “What is that???” when looking at the await call after the for, but before the (const req of s) on line 4 I …
A simple explanation of the “for await …of” statement in Node.js Read More »
Hey there! Last week I started working on a rewrite of Shefa Products which is a wholesale merchandising e-commerce for Argentina. The rewrite is not only to move it from Angular.JS (version 1, do you remember it?) to Next.JS and the Adonis Framework, but also to be able to add features faster and get the …
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Bootstrap is amazing. When it was released it improved the design of a huge number of sites! However its popularity also meant that -along the years- the out of the box design was no longer unique and flashy. In this tutorial we will see how to edit bootstrap at the sass level, allowing use to …