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FeaturedAI6 min read

How Do AI Meeting Notetakers Actually Work? The Architecture Behind the Bot in Your Zoom Call

That silent participant taking notes in your Zoom call is a distributed system. A plain-language but technically honest tour of how AI meeting notetakers work: calendar sync, meeting bots, transcription, speaker attribution and AI analysis.

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Cover image for the article “The Safety Layer Every Conversational AI Needs: Moderation Models, Incident Records and Human Escalation”

AI Safety6 min read

The Safety Layer Every Conversational AI Needs: Moderation Models, Incident Records and Human Escalation

A conversational AI that people trust with difficult situations needs more than a well-behaved prompt. The production safety architecture: moderation as a mandatory pipeline stage, structured incident records and a human escalation path that actually pages someone.

Svelte: Revolutionizing Web Development Since Version 3

Svelte4 min read

Svelte: Revolutionizing Web Development Since Version 3

Svelte has established itself as a significant force in web development, particularly since the launch of version 3, known for compile-time optimization that minimizes runtime code.

Dynamically Building and Packaging SCORM Courses with Modern Frontend Frameworks

SCORM3 min read

Dynamically Building and Packaging SCORM Courses with Modern Frontend Frameworks

SCORM has been a foundational eLearning standard since the late 1990s. This blog explores how to dynamically build and package SCORM courses with SvelteKit, Next.js and Nuxt.js.

Scaling Microservices: Optimizing Performance and Resource Allocation

Microservices5 min read

Scaling Microservices: Optimizing Performance and Resource Allocation

Microservices architecture revolutionized software development, but the journey doesn’t end at the initial transition. This blog explores the core principles for scaling microservices.

Svelte 5 – Introducing Runes

Svelte4 min read

Svelte 5 – Introducing Runes

In 2019, Svelte 3 turned JavaScript into a reactive language. Svelte 5 changes all that with runes, which unlock universal, fine-grained reactivity — inside and beyond your components.

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite? Part 3

Svelte4 min read

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite? (pt 3)

Part 3 explores the motivation behind Custom Elements: microfrontends. We look at how Svelte’s Custom Element API helps break down the frontend monolith across teams.

Exploring the Exciting Features of Svelte 4

Svelte3 min read

Exploring the Exciting Features of Svelte 4

Svelte 4 brought highly anticipated features and fixes to typing, transitions, custom elements, stores and preprocessing — with smaller, faster hydration code and a reduced package size.

Vue vs Svelte: A Comprehensive Comparison of Features

Vue vs Svelte: A Comprehensive Comparison of Features

Vue and Svelte are well-liked JavaScript frameworks for building modern web applications, but they vary in approach and design philosophy. A detailed look at the merits and drawbacks of each.

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework: A Comparative Analysis of Vue.js, Svelte, and React.js

JavaScript9 min read

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework: A Comparative Analysis of Vue.js, Svelte, and React.js

The choice between Vue.js, React.js and Svelte often boils down to personal preference and the specific requirements of a project. A comparative analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

Software architecture – From monoliths to event-driven architecture

Software Architecture4 min read

Software architecture – From monoliths to event-driven architecture

Monoliths are great for proving an idea and finding product-market fit, but as teams grow, architectures evolve. A walk from monoliths to microservices to event-driven architecture.

Stories behind the Monolith

Software Architecture4 min read

Stories behind the Monolith

Companies want to put software in consumers’ hands as soon as possible, so teams move fast. Those applications, built as a single unit, are often called monoliths — here are the stories behind them.

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite? Part 2

Svelte3 min read

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite? (pt 2)

Part 2 of our Svelte journey looks at how Svelte handles state outside of the component hierarchy — the context API and stores, and the three store types: writable, readable and derived.

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite?

Svelte2 min read

Why is Svelte becoming a developers favourite?

September 2022 our Svelte adventure has begun. This blog post is the beginning of a series dedicated to our experiences with the Svelte framework and why it looks so different from React, Vue and Angular.

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Svelte4 min read

Why is Svelte getting so popular?

Since the release of version 3 in April 2019, Svelte has been the news. But why is that? What is driving this popularity? What makes it unique? We answer the questions in this blog post.

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