artificial intelligence

Implementing Semantic Search with Sequel and pgvector

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Semantic Search AI Embedding

ai agents

AI Agents: Implementing the ReAct Pattern in Ruby

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Agents AI React Agent

generative ai

An LLM-based AI Assistant for the FastRuby.io Newsletter

Amanda Bizzinotto

Every other week, the FastRuby.io newsletter brings a curated list of the best Ruby and Rails articles, tutorials, and news to your inbox.

Our...

Marketing AI LLM

generative ai

A Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering Techniques: Part 1

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

AI LLM Prompt Engineering

generative ai

Techniques to Enhance the Capabilities of LLMs for your Specific Use Case

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Machine Learning LLM Rag

machine learning

Parallax Proves a High-Value Concept and Gains a Predictive Machine Learning Model by Collaborating with OmbuLabs

Amanda Bizzinotto

Parallax was beginning to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) to leverage the wealth of data on hand about...

Case Study Machine Learning Regression Model

machine learning

Machine Learning: An Introduction to Gradient Boosting

Amanda Bizzinotto

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Francois Buys

Welcome to the third article in our Machine Learning with Ruby series!

In our previous article Machine Learning: An Introduction to CART Decision...

Ruby Machine Learning Binary Classification

machine learning

Machine Learning: An Introduction to Random Forests

Amanda Bizzinotto

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Francois Buys

In our previous article Machine Learning: An Introduction to CART Decision Trees in Ruby, we covered CART decision trees and built a simple tree...

Ruby Machine Learning Binary Classification

ethics and responsible ai

The South by Southwest EDU Conference and AI in Education

Amanda Bizzinotto

I attended the South by Southwest EDU conference in Austin, Texas, for the first time this year and it was a great experience.

I...

Sxsw AI Education

software development

Building a Heroku Buildpack to Work with the uv Package Manager

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Uv Python Heroku

software development

Defining, Measuring, and Managing Technical Debt at Google

Ernesto Tagwerker

In 2023, Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, as part of the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google, published a paper titled Defining, Measuring, and...

Tech Debt Technical Debt Maturity Model

software development

Hacktoberfest 2023: How We Merged Open Source Contributions with Learning Objectives

Ernesto Tagwerker

As a company, one of our core values is to be “open by default.” At the same time, one of our goals is to...

Open Source Hacktoberfest Learning

ombulabs culture

Our Social Media Presence

Ernesto Tagwerker

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...

Culture Values Social Media

ombulabs culture

Introducing the Account Advocate - A Dedicated Partner for Success

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Client Experience Account Advocate Client Success Communication

ombulabs culture

Why you should speak at conferences

Rishi Jain

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...

Conferences Speaking Public Speaking

ruby on rails

How to Build a Discord Bot in Ruby on Rails

Fiona Lapham

At OmbuLabs, we recently had the opportunity to develop a Discord bot from scratch. We found the experience both rewarding and insightful, prompting us...

Rails Discord Ruby

ruby on rails

Handling Environment Variables in Ruby

Ariel Juodziukynas

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?...

Rails Ruby Environment Variables

ruby on rails

Advanced Forms (No JavaScript!)

Ariel Juodziukynas

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...

Rails Forms Html Forms

data engineering

Running Airflow on Google Kubernetes Engine without Helm

Amanda Bizzinotto

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...

Data Engineering AIrflow Kubernetes