This post is inspired by this other post with a couple of performance improvements: we will use DB Context Factory instead of Npgsql, and bundle notifications to prevent backpressure condition. First, let’s look at this query we need to run. It creates a trigger function that will dispatch our notification whenever a new row is…
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The Blazor Server model, with its integrated backend, offers a unique advantage when interacting with third-party gRPC services. Let’s clarify how this works and why it’s different from Blazor WASM or Flutter. With Blazor Server, your C# code runs directly on the server. This means you can directly use the gRPC client libraries within your…
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Azure ML Studio is a powerful platform that allows us to manage our ML/AI projects in various ways, from simple “Level 0” manual deployments to “Level 4”, fully automated MLOps. In this scenario, we will deploy our HuggingFace BERT model running on the transformers library from a local folder to an online endpoint using Azure…
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Firebase platform provides a quick and easy way to create high-fidelity Flutter applications in record low amounts of time. A massive free tier allows individuals and small companies to build and run event-driven apps for free for a small number of users, while taking advantage of cutting-edge security, load balancing, and autoscaling. This article discusses…
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In this article, we will cover the installation of the PostgreSQL 16 database with PGVector extension for semantic search applications using vector embeddings. This article assumes you already have a Debian/Ubuntu web server running, and you have root access to that server. 1. Install PostgreSQL 16 First, we need to make apt aware of the…
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One of the key challenges with text embeddings is their inability to always bring back exact match results, primarily due to the nature of how embeddings represent and understand language. Text embeddings focus on capturing semantic meaning rather than exact word-to-word matches. They represent words or phrases in a continuous vector space based on their…
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This short video demonstrates the practical application of GitHub Copilot in Flutter app development.
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution from Microsoft that provides a wide range of features for managing user identities and access to resources in the cloud and on-premises. The main reasons you might choose Azure AD over other cloud authentication solutions are: Overall, Azure AD provides a…
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Flutter team has made it very easy to monetize your apps with the help of in-app purchase package. However, on top of Flutter integration itself, which is very well described in this codelab, you’ll also need to set up a backend for validation and storage of your receipts to ensure you will not get punked,…
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