Stop Running Blind on AI Usage
Non-deterministic models, hidden cost and silent failures make AI hard to manage and scale. Here’s why structured logging is your first line of defence. If your platform relies on LLM
From Access to Assets: Understanding Entitlements in Membership Plans
Many businesses offer tiered membership plans, each with its unique set of features. This strategy allows businesses to distinguish themselves and stay competitive. These feature sets are typically referred to
Use Stripe Efficiently: Rate Limiting and Data Caching
Successful integration of payment processing platforms requires careful considerations about performance and reliability of your service. Whether you are gearing up for a major sales campaign or experiencing unexpected spikes
Spring Data and Custom Queries: Best Practices
Spring Data provides a powerful way to interact with your database with minimum effort. Occasionally though, you need to write custom queries to fetch or manipulate data in a more
Retrieval Augmented Generation with Spring AI
In our last post, we looked at enriching the OpenAI model with custom data through function calls. While this technique is useful, it has its limitations and performance trade-offs. Today,
Spring AI and Challenges with Function Calling
Spring AI boosts developer’s productivity by providing seamless integration with a variety of AI models. This post explores enriching the generic model with additional data coming from custom functions. This
Your Cheat Sheet to Mastering Payment Automation with Stripe
More than two months ago, I embarked on a journey to create a hands-on series about payment automation using Stripe. Writing the series has been an enjoyable and rewarding experience,
Implementing Smart Retries with Stripe
Network and connection issues can occur for various reasons, such as timeouts or intermittent server availability. Automatic recovery from network issues plays an important role when integrating with any API.
Recovering from Failures when Handling Payments with Stripe
In our previous post we explored webhooks as a reliable means to promptly respond to customer activities, such as checkouts, successful payments or failed transactions. Yet, in practice, we often