Brian Baliach articles - 32 total
AI Agents, Not If-Else: A Friendly Intro to Tool-Calling with CSVs
Imagine this: You have an Excel or CSV (or any other) dataset, and you want quick, clear answers from...
Weekly Coding Challenge #2: Generating Parentheses with Backtracking and Recursion
I’m continuing the weekly challenge series, and this time we’re tackling a foundational favorite:...
Weekly Coding Challenge #1: Solving Subsets II with Backtracking
I've decided to do a new blog series where I’ll be sharing coding challenges I’ve solved each week....
End-to-End GraphQL File Uploads with Apollo Server and Apollo Client: A Comprehensive Guide
We recently started partnering (where I currently work) with some of our customers to co-create...
Integrating Model Context Protocol with Gemini: The Definitive Guide to Modern Tool Calling (Agentic-AI)
When it comes to tool-calling and agentic AI, the internet seems awash with tutorials for Anthropic’s...
Permit IO Auth Challenge: Document and Team Management API with Fine-Grained Access Control
This is a submission for the Permit.io Authorization Challenge: API-First Authorization Reimagined ...
Mastering Facebook APIs: A Guide to Media Handling, Encryption, and Messaging
Facebook's documentation is all over the place. It's quite difficult to specifically find what you're...
A Personal Tutor (Powered by AI)
This is a submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge. What I Built I've...
A Journey of Learning: From Software Engineer to Team Leader
Transitioning from a senior software engineer to building and leading an internal team at Farmbetter...
TypeScript Stage 3 Decorators: A Journey Through Setup and Usage
So, What Are TypeScript Decorators? In the simplest of terms, a decorator in TypeScript is like a...
JavaScript Equality Under the Lens: Enhancing React’s Dependency Checks - Part 2
In a previous blog, JavaScript Equality Under the Lens: Enhancing React’s Dependency Checks, we...
Streamlining Your Next.js Project with Private GitHub/Gitlab Repositories as NPM Packages
Using Private GitHub/Gitlab Repos in Your Next.js Projects Imagine this scenario: you're...
Introduction to Domain Driven Design: Bridging the Gap Between Complex Systems and Software
Recently, I was asked to present on Domain Driven Design. As I delved deeper into the research, it...
Escaping Deployment Hell: How Feature Flags Can Transform Your Workflow
Feature flags, also known as feature toggles, are a powerful technique that allows us to alter the...
JavaScript Equality Under the Lens: Enhancing React's Dependency Checks
JavaScript, a language of many faces, often presents concepts that are deceptively simple yet...
Web Streams API in Action: Delivering 6000+ Log Lines Concurrently Across 20 Tabs
In today's fast-paced digital world, efficient data handling is crucial. Whether you're processing...
Animating SVGs in React: Breathe Life into Your Images
Dare I say, we've all been there - staring at our perfectly tailor-made Figma designs, only to dread...
Navigating the Pull Request Maze with CodiumAI's PR-Agent: A Comparison to GitHub's Copilot
Hello once again my fellow code-based creature enthusiasts! Have you ever felt that managing pull...
Autocomplete Demystified: A Common Use-Case of Trie
Imagine this: You're typing a friendly message in a WhatsApp group directed to one of your peers, and...
Unveiling the Trie: A Masterstroke for Efficient String Searches
Welcome back, fellow developers! In our last rendezvous, we deciphered the intricacies of recursion,...
Unraveling Recursion: A Practical Look at the Call Stack and Heap
If you’ve been following me, you might recall a harrowing tale of a developer coming to grips with...
Decoding Recursion: The Concept That Had Me Stumped
Microservices might be the heroes of scalable and reliable applications today, but let's shift gears...
Private GPT: Building a Web Scraper with HTML Parsing in TypeScript (Part 1)
In this blog, we will explore the process of building a web scraper using HTML parsing capabilities...
Bypassing GPT-4's Context Length Limitation with Sliding Window Technique
GPT-4, despite its incredible linguistic prowess, suffers from a noteworthy constraint: its context...
The Final Act: Streaming Video and Receiving it in a WebRTC Video Conference (Part 3/3)
Welcome back, fellow video conferencing enthusiasts! In the previous parts of our blog series, we've...
Setting Up a Signalling Server: Client Video Streaming (Part 2 of 3)
Welcome back to our thrilling three-part series on setting up a peer-to-peer connection for client...
Setting Up a Peer-to-Peer Connection: Client Video Streaming (Part 1 of 3)
Welcome to the first part of our three-part series on setting up a peer-to-peer (P2P) connection to...
gRPC: A Modern Approach to Microservices Communication
In today's world, microservices architecture has become a popular approach for building scalable and...
Tic-Tac-Toe: Exploring a TypeScript Code Example
Hello, fellow code connoisseurs! I've recently decided to refresh my memory on data structures and...
Blockchain Technology: A case study of Bitcoin
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