With the release of Rails 6, Webpack was introduced as the default JavaScript bundler by using the Webpacker gem . We tend to think...
A few months ago I attended NERCOMP for the first time and I got to connect with IT professionals in the higher ed space....
In my previous post, An LLM-based AI Assistant for the FastRuby.io Newsletter , I introduced an AI-powered assistant we built with Sinatra to help our...
AI Agents are everywhere. Every day, tools, libraries, new use cases, and new products come out using and leveraging AI Agents. Several frameworks have been...
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely available and easily accessible and are increasingly a part of business. Whether you’re interacting with an LLM via the...
With the advent of widely available Large Language Models (LLMs), businesses everywhere have sought to leverage these models to handle specific tasks that can increase...
Parallax was beginning to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) to leverage the wealth of data on hand about...
Welcome to the third article in our Machine Learning with Ruby series!
In our previous article Machine Learning: An Introduction to CART Decision...
In our previous article Machine Learning: An Introduction to CART Decision Trees in Ruby , we covered CART decision trees and built a simple tree...
I attended the South by Southwest EDU conference in Austin, Texas, for the first time this year and it was a great experience.
I...
Be it for our own internal tooling or on our client’s projects, we’ve used a variety of package managers. When building our newest tool, we...
In 2023, Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, as part of the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google, published a paper titled Defining, Measuring, and...
As a company, one of our core values is to be “open by default.” At the same time, one of our goals is to...
As a company that is open by default we take pride in sharing a lot of our content on social media. Social networks like Twitter...
As a company, we are committed to ensuring our client’s success and believe that maintaining strong relationships with the people who trust us with their...
Speaking at conferences can be a daunting task, and I am not here to deny that. But beyond that daunting task lies a bunch of...
At OmbuLabs, we recently had the opportunity to develop a Discord bot from scratch. We found the experience both rewarding and insightful, prompting us...
Configuring your Rails application can be tricky. How do you define secrets? How do you set different values for your local development and for production?...
When working with complex forms, it’s really easy to immediately start adding JavaScript to implement non-common behaviors. But there are some hidden gems in the...
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) can be a very good option for Airflow and, although it offers its own managed deployment of Airflow, Cloud Composer, managing...
