Unlock Efficiency: Slash Costs and Supercharge Performance with Semantic Caching for Your LLM App!

A semantic cache for large language model (LLM) based applications introduces a plethora of advantages that revolutionize their performance and usability.  Primarily, it significantly enhances processing speed and responsiveness by storing precomputed representations of frequently used language elements.  This minimizes the need for repetitive computations, leading to quicker response times and reduced latency, thereby optimizing […]

Optimizing Energy Efficiency: Viessmann Heat Pumps and Home Assistant Integration Guide

In the fast-paced world of smart home technology, the fusion of cutting-edge heating solutions and automation platforms is revolutionizing the way we manage our homes. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore the seamless integration of Viessmann heat pumps with Home Assistant, emphasizing how this synergy not only enhances convenience but also takes energy efficiency to […]

A DIY Guide: Measuring Water Temperature with an NTC 10K Thermistor and ESP32

In the world of DIY electronics, combining sensors with microcontrollers opens up a realm of possibilities for monitoring and measuring various environmental factors. One such project involves using an NTC 10K thermistor (Viessmann Speichertemperatursensor NTC 10k l=3750 7725998) and an ESP32 microcontroller to measure water temperature accurately. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the […]

InqueryIQ – A fully-automatic OpenAI email support agent for your own products and services

Providing human support engineers to handle incoming queries about products and services can be both costly and limited in its scalability. This is particularly challenging for self-published mobile apps and small to medium-sized businesses, as they often lack the financial resources to offer human support. I personally experienced this issue when I published my own […]

OpenTelemetry: How to Observe a Dockerized Python Service in Google Cloud

Over the last couple of years, OpenTelemetry became the de-facto instrumentation standard for collecting and observing distributed service trace information. OpenTelemetry allows users to add standardized instrumentation code within their applications with the purpose of observing traces, metrics, logs and events independent of service implementation technologies and across all the major cloud vendors. Within this […]