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Sep 13

The Wake-Up Call: Why I Decided to Become an AI Backend Engineer

#java #ai #backend #career

5 min read

Sep 15

What Is an LLM? The Foundation Every AI Backend Engineer Needs

#ai #java #beginners #programming

5 min read

Sep 17

What Is a Token? The Concept That Unlocks Everything About LLMs

#java #ai #beginners #programming

6 min read

Sep 19

How Your Message Actually Reaches the AI Model — And What You're Really Sending

#ai #java #programming #beginners

7 min read

Cover image for From 20 Lines to 4: My First AI Endpoint in Spring Boot

Sep 21

From 20 Lines to 4: My First AI Endpoint in Spring Boot

#ai #java #beginners #springboot

5 min read

Cover image for Why Your AI Chatbot Forgets Everything — And How to Fix It

Sep 23

Why Your AI Chatbot Forgets Everything — And How to Fix It

#ai #java #springboot #beginners

5 min read

Cover image for Stop Running Your AI App on Your Laptop — Deploy It to the Cloud for Free

Sep 25

Stop Running Your AI App on Your Laptop — Deploy It to the Cloud for Free

#java #docker #beginners #devops

6 min read

Cover image for How I Made My AI App Stream Like ChatGPT — Server-Sent Events in Spring Boot

Sep 27

How I Made My AI App Stream Like ChatGPT — Server-Sent Events in Spring Boot

#java #springboot #ai #beginners

5 min read

Cover image for I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Spring Boot

Sep 29

I Hit a 429 Before I Got a Bill — Managing Gemini API Limits in Spring Boot

#java #ai #springboot #beginners

6 min read

Cover image for The System Prompt Is Not a Description — It's a Contract

Oct 1

The System Prompt Is Not a Description — It's a Contract

#java #springboot #ai #beginners

6 min read

Cover image for What Is RAG — And Why Every AI App That Touches Real Data Needs It

Oct 3

What Is RAG — And Why Every AI App That Touches Real Data Needs It

#ai #java #rag #llm

8 min read

Cover image for How AI Understands Meaning — Embeddings Explained for Backend Engineers

Oct 5

How AI Understands Meaning — Embeddings Explained for Backend Engineers

#ai #java #rag #beginners

8 min read

Cover image for Chunking — Why How You Split Documents Decides Retrieval Quality

Oct 7

Chunking — Why How You Split Documents Decides Retrieval Quality

#ai #java #beginners #rag

9 min read

Cover image for Vector Databases — What They Are and How to Use Pinecone with Spring AI

Oct 9

Vector Databases — What They Are and How to Use Pinecone with Spring AI

#java #ai #beginners #vectordatabase

5 min read

Cover image for Building a Full RAG Pipeline in Spring Boot — From Ingest to Grounded Answer

Oct 11

Building a Full RAG Pipeline in Spring Boot — From Ingest to Grounded Answer

#ai #java #springboot #beginners

5 min read

Cover image for AI Agents Explained — Tools, the ReAct Loop, and Spring Boot

Oct 13

AI Agents Explained — Tools, the ReAct Loop, and Spring Boot

#ai #java #springboot #beginners

7 min read

Cover image for Designing Tools Your AI Agent Will Actually Use Correctly

Oct 15

Designing Tools Your AI Agent Will Actually Use Correctly

#ai #java #springboot #agents

6 min read

Cover image for Giving Your Spring AI Agent a Memory — Conversations That Actually Make Sense

Oct 17

Giving Your Spring AI Agent a Memory — Conversations That Actually Make Sense

#ai #java #springboot #agents

5 min read

Cover image for Building Agents That Don't Break — Error Handling and Patterns in Spring AI

Oct 19

Building Agents That Don't Break — Error Handling and Patterns in Spring AI

#ai #java #springboot #agents

7 min read

Cover image for From Localhost to Production: Deploying Your Spring AI Agent

Oct 21

From Localhost to Production: Deploying Your Spring AI Agent

#ai #java #springboot #agents

6 min read

Cover image for Scaling Your Spring AI Agent: From One User to Many

Oct 23

Scaling Your Spring AI Agent: From One User to Many

#java #springboot #performance #ai

6 min read

Cover image for Beyond @Tool: Connecting Your Spring AI Agent to External Tool Servers

Oct 25

Beyond @Tool: Connecting Your Spring AI Agent to External Tool Servers

#ai #java #mcp #agents

5 min read

Cover image for How Do You Know Your AI Agent Is Wrong? Evaluation for Java Backends

Oct 27

How Do You Know Your AI Agent Is Wrong? Evaluation for Java Backends

#ai #java #testing #springboot

9 min read