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Creating your own Vector Search engine

In this article, we'll dive deeper into creating your own vector search engine. Mainly, we'll look at the tokenization and vectorization process.

By Ben Zatrok 16 Aug 2024
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Building My Own Chatbot with Dify: July's Top Repo on GitHub

I take a look at Dify, one of the top repos on GitHub’s explore feed. Dify is an LLM development platform where you can build RAG chatbots.

By Ben Zatrok 02 Aug 2024
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Building a background swapper app with NextJS - Part III

It's time for our first integrations! Today we're connecting a Postgres DB from Neon and Cloudflare's R2 object storage for saving our pictures.

By Ben Zatrok 28 Jul 2024
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Building a background swapper app with NextJS - Part II

Building our dashboard GUI reached a new milestone: setting up our back-end to accept uploads.

By Ben Zatrok 28 Jul 2024
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Building a background swapper app with NextJS - Part I

I like to focus my coding to creation, rather than maintenance. Let's build our own dashboard GUI in NextJS. Part I - Front-end

By Ben Zatrok 26 Jul 2024
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Building my own Analytics Tracker

Building my own analytics tracker to personalize my APIs. A Barebone Analytics script to track impressions and interactions.

By Ben Zatrok 22 Jul 2024
Promise of Relevant Search Results: Vector Databases

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Promise of Relevant Search Results: Vector Databases

Vector databases take a fresh approach to searching for relevant data by using vector representations instead of text search.

By Ben Zatrok 19 Jul 2024

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Git Essentials for day-to-day version control

Git Essentials for day-to-day version control

Having a backup of our code and history of changes has saved my skin several times. Git is a complex and powerful tool, but for every use, knowing a few commands will get the job done in the vast majority of situations.

By Ben Zatrok 22 Nov 2023
Intro into hosting III: Hosting open-source containers

Intro into hosting III: Hosting open-source containers

In the previous articles, we created our own simple Docker image. Now we take a step further and run docker containers from open source images.

By Ben Zatrok 17 Sep 2023
Intro into hosting II: self-hosting your own containers

Intro into hosting II: self-hosting your own containers

Previously, we've hosted a small piece of code. As complexity grows, this gets more difficult. We take a look at why containers make this easier.

By Ben Zatrok 18 Aug 2023
Intro into hosting I: self-hosting your own code

Intro into hosting I: self-hosting your own code

Hands-on experience with creating your own containers is a great way to learn, but most content is aimed at developers. I wrote a series of articles explaining the concepts of hosting through self-hosting, keeping it simple. It's a great starting point for anyone interested in containerization.

By Ben Zatrok 11 Aug 2023
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