April 28, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

In today's AI-driven landscape, creating systems with long-term memory capabilities has become increasingly important. Whether you're building a customer service chatbot that remembers interactions with its users and maintaining history longer than the context window are crucial parts of a successful system. While there are many components that go into building a fully functional long-term memory solution, Zep can be a powerful tool to help developers implement long-term memory in their AI applications. What is Zep? Zep is an API-based solution that...

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April 28, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized how organizations process and generate natural language content, but their operational costs can become significant at scale. One of the most effective techniques for reducing these costs is context caching, which allows reuse of static prompt components across multiple requests. This article examines how the three major AI providers—Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), and OpenAI—implement context caching, with detailed analysis of their technical approaches, pricing structures, and practical limitations. The Technical Fundamentals of Context Caching When interacting...

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April 28, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

Unless you've recently spent your free time nose-deep in GitHub repos or interrogating ChatGPT like it's a barista who got your coffee order wrong, you may not be familiar with MCP servers. That’s okay. Two weeks ago, I wasn’t either. But thanks to a casual, "Hey, can you connect Notion to our project via an MCP server?" from a teammate (and my relentless need to avoid looking clueless), I dove headfirst into the rabbit hole. What I discovered is something potentially...

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April 8, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

Imagine you’re an inventory manager for a retail business and you need to quickly verify stock levels for an unexpected large order while away from your computer. Instead of logging into a dashboard, navigating through menus, and analyzing spreadsheets, you simply send a text message: "Do we have enough iPhones to fulfill an order for 100 units?" Within seconds, you receive a reply: "You have 157 iPhones currently in stock, so you can fulfill this order. Based on your current sales rate of...

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April 2, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

Introduction There’s been a lot of excitement lately in our P2 Labs team about the possibilities opened up by Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, which enables AI tools to connect to a rapidly growing range of external tools and services. One question we've been exploring: how effectively can AI-powered coding assistants handle real-world development tasks when given access to the same resources a human would? The Experiment Since we’ve also been doing some work lately updating our Resume Sizzler demo, that provided use with...

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March 25, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

Mobile application deployment has historically been a cumbersome process. Each deployment typically requires two builds (one iOS and one Android), each deployed to a separate store instance that must be manually configured and managed. While several effective tools have emerged in recent years to streamline this process, they all are understandably tuned to the most common use case: building one application for each platform and deploying those applications to the App Store and Play Store, respectively.  However, business needs are varied...

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March 17, 2025
Engineering, Phase 2 Labs

How Multi-Modal LLMs are Revolutionizing Document Processing Anyone who has worked with historical archives, ancestral records, or aged business documents knows the frustration all too well. You're staring at a handwritten letter from the 1800s, a faded hospital record, or a weathered legal document that holds valuable information—if only you could reliably extract it. Traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) promised to bridge this gap between physical documents and digital data, but for many challenging documents, it has fallen persistently short. For decades,...

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March 6, 2025
Business Software Development, Data Strategy and Governance, Phase 2 Labs

Executive Summary Organizations today face a critical inflection point in managing their data assets. According to Ocient, a leading data intelligence firm, global data creation will reach 200 zettabytes in 2025 (Ocient 2022). This explosive growth, combined with increasing regulatory requirements like GDPR, CCPA, and industry-specific mandates, creates urgent challenges in data management, security, and value creation. The cost of poor data management is substantial. Industry research from Gartner indicates that organizations lose an average of $12.9 million per year due to...

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February 24, 2025
Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, LangGraph, Phase 2 Labs, Technical Tutorial

LangGraph is a framework designed for building and managing complex AI workflows using a graph-based approach. This article provides a comprehensive guide to its core components, implementation patterns, and best practices. Key Highlights: LangGraph Studio: A powerful IDE for real-time visualization, debugging, and monitoring of graph executions. Features include graph visualization, hot reloading, and interactive debugging. Graph Components: LangGraph workflows consist of nodes (processing units), edges (connections defining flow), and state (persistent context). Types of Nodes: Includes LLM nodes (leveraging AI models), agent nodes...

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