Machine Learning

After 4 months wrestling with Haystack in a medium-scale search project: the headline is, “Haystack pricing looks cheap, but hidden costs will empty your pockets faster than you think.”

Let me cut to the chase before you dream up architectures: Haystack’s pricing model is messier than a spaghetti junction. The open-source deepset-ai/haystack framework itself is

FastAPI vs Express vs Hono: Backend Showdown
FastAPI currently holds a remarkable 96,522 GitHub stars. Express, a long-standing favorite, has a substantial following but lags behind FastAPI in this regard. Hono, the new kid on the block, is just starting to gather steam. But let’s not kid ourselves: stars don’t ship features, and when it

Activepieces vs Windmill: Which One for Side Projects

Activepieces is gaining traction with around 8,400 users across its platforms, while Windmill has amassed a user base of about 10,000. Numbers are interesting, but they only represent the tip of the iceberg when choosing tools for your side projects. I’ve used both and have my thoughts,

How to Set Up CI/CD with Milvus: A Step-by-Step Guide

Setting up CI/CD with Milvus can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. In this tutorial, we’re building a system that streamlines the deployment of Milvus, a vector database that currently boasts 43,455 stars, 3,912 forks, and has 1,085 open issues on GitHub, which

Conversation Management Checklist: 7 Things Before Going to Production
I’ve seen 3 production agent deployments fail this month. All 3 made the same 5 mistakes. This isn’t just bad luck or the universe playing tricks; it’s a problem of poor conversation management. Before you ship your next product or system into the wild, having a

Agent Debugging: A Developer’s Honest Guide
I’ve seen 3 production agent deployments fail this month. All 3 made the same 5 mistakes. If you’re working with AI agents, the debugging process can feel like navigating a minefield while blindfolded. Yet, it doesn’t have to be that way. This agent debugging guide is aimed to help

After testing Weaviate for 14 months at enterprise scale: the advertised prices are just the starting point of your bill, buckle up.

I’ve been running Weaviate as part of a production vector search infrastructure since early 2025, dealing with millions of entries and complex query demands. During that time, I’ve seen firsthand where the advertised

Weaviate Add Memory to Your Agent: A 2500-Word No-Nonsense Tutorial

If you want your intelligent agent to actually remember the context between conversations, you need to weaviate add memory to your agent the right way, using vector search to store and recall previous interactions. We’re not just tossing snippets into some database; we’re building an