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Just like every impressive building starts with a strong foundation, every remarkable capability in an AI agent can be traced back to its framework. AI agent frameworks or agentic AI frameworks make it possible to create smart, efficient AI agents that can serve as simple chatbots, facilitate agentic automation, or contribute to complex use cases in finance, supply chain, healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics as part of a multi-agent system. But what are AI agent frameworks?

Have you ever felt personally offended by a 4-star review, even after giving 110% to your customers? You’re not alone. Even the smallest product hiccup can spark a Reddit thread or a sarcastic TikTok. Getting customer engagement right is more challenging and important than ever. You will likely face ongoing challenges in customer engagement with new and evolving expectations, and meeting these needs is vital to fostering brand loyalty.

Have you ever found it a bit tedious to enter the same release notes text every time you submit an app for review in the stores? In this article, I’ll introduce a method to automate this small but repetitive task. It’s very easy to implement, so please read on.

The architecture of the modern data lake offers considerable advantages over data warehouses.

As your user base expands, so does the volume and variety of push notifications you need to send. Whether it’s transactional alerts, updates, or personalized messages, publishing notifications for thousands - or even millions - of users can quickly become a bottleneck. The more you grow, the more important it becomes to have a scalable, efficient push strategy.

Regular expressions are usually not top of mind when you think of performance bottlenecks in your application, but inefficient patterns or sub-optimal use of the APIs can make them slow. A wonderful learning opportunity for this is a recent roughly factor of 2x performance improvement patch to Doctrine DBAL’s SQL Parser. This patch was submitted by Soner from Shopware fame, thank you to him.

Are you leading the development or marketing of an app or website that involves protected health information (PHI)? If you have not heard the term before, PHI involves information related to an individual’s health status, healthcare, and healthcare payments. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) protects said individuals and their health-related information, which you must comply with before progressing further with your product or service.

Process automation has been around for decades, but the tools under this technology umbrella have multiplied over the years. Robotic process automation (RPA) was an early tool for handling simple, routine tasks, and it’s still powerful to have in your intelligent automation arsenal. But when technologies like intelligent document processing, business rules, and workflow orchestration entered the scene, they brought new capabilities to the process automation suite.

When I first started writing Go software a little over a decade ago, one of the features I found particularly intriguing was the ability to build statically-linked binaries for multiple operating systems and architectures without a lot of headache. This build toolchain feature is widely relied upon by nearly all Go developers, especially when needing to build multi-arch container images destined to be run in a Kubernetes cluster consisting of amd64 and/or arm64 nodes.

The retail industry has been shaped and fundamentally transformed by disruptive technologies in the past decade. From AI assisted customer service experiences to advanced robotics in operations, retailers are pursuing new technologies to address margin strains and rising customer expectations.