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Vladimir Sibirov on building software systems and engineering teams

AI Engineering Goes Visual: Building an LLM RAG with PyFlyde & LangChain

Use Flyde to design and wire up LangChain, Vector Store, and Ollama or OpenAI API to perform Retrieval Augmented Generation

This part builds upon the Scraper app that we created in the part 1 and uses our visual programming skills to dive deeper in the LLM engineering world. This time we turn our article database into a RAG app, making use of LangChain, Vector Store and local LLaMA3 or OpenAI API.

A 21 minute read. Posted on February 23, 2025 In Flow-Based Programming

AI Engineering Goes Visual: Web Scraping & Data Prep with PyFlyde

Learn how to create a web scraper and local article database using PyFlyde, BeautifulSoup4, and Playwright

In this tutorial, we explore how to use Flyde, a visual programming tool, to build a web scraper that feeds into a Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) system. We will cover the process of scraping web content and storing it locally, setting the stage for more advanced AI engineering tasks.

A 25 minute read. Posted on February 22, 2025 In Flow-Based Programming

The state of Flow-based Programming

Where Flow-based Programming stands after 50 years since its introduction. What problems it solves today. And what problems it can solve tomorrow for broader Software Engineering industry

A 30 minute read. Posted on August 28, 2022 In Flow-Based Programming

Forcing a specific NoFlo version for all dependencies

Using NPM Shrinkwrap to enforce the same version of NoFlo for all dependencies to fix backwards compatibility issues

A 2 minute read. Posted on March 13, 2017 In Flow-Based Programming

Development efficiency challenges in NoFlo

Obstacles on the way to happy day-to-day life with NoFlo and ways to overcome them

A 6 minute read. Posted on November 7, 2016 In Flow-Based Programming

On NoFlo database applications

A few thoughts on design of NoFlo backends frequently talking to a RDBMS

A 2 minute read. Posted on July 27, 2016 In Flow-Based Programming

Running web services as NoFlo graphs

Some problems that occur when trying to run entire web services as NoFlo graphs and some (radical) ways to solve them

A 6 minute read. Posted on January 23, 2015 In Flow-Based Programming

Comparison of dataflow models

Comparison of Flow-based programming, Actor model and Communicating Sequential Processes in a scientific manner

A 12 minute read. Posted on June 3, 2012 In Flow-Based Programming

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