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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is the process by which developers can enhance AI model output by providing it useful context in addition to the user’s original prompt. If you were to imagine a teacher standing in front of a group of kindergartners asking them what the caterpillar did in
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Content delivery networks (CDNs) help accelerate the loading of content on the web. These networks are effectively distributed access points that cache (or store a temporary copy of) data as close to the person accessing the content as possible. This is what makes it possible to load a website hosted
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Control What Your Users Upload With Presigned URLs Pinata was the first IPFS provider to give developers the power and control to allow their users to upload from the frontend. This was important because it cuts down on latency and allows for larger file sizes. We improved upon this paradigm
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While Pinata doesn’t offer an official Python SDK, a variety of community-built tools make it easy to upload content to IPFS using the language. But what if you want to write your own code without using a community SDK? Let’s do that together. Getting Started 1. Create a
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If you’ve been following Farcaster—the decentralized social network that gained a lot of interest in 2024 when they launched Frames—then you’re surely aware of Warpcast, the largest and most popular client. Warpcast is built by the team behind the protocol and is generally a tool designed
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I previously wrote about how to turn docs and knowledge bases into an AI-powered chat app, but I realized the app was missing key context found in the blog posts we publish. Many of our blog posts are technical tutorials which provide rich context that will be useful for any
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One of the key questions when building a Layer 2 (L2) blockchain solution is: Where do you store your data? For many teams, that question leads to the idea of spinning up a new data availability chain that has its own nodes, validators, and economic model. This is unneeded complexity.
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is the most well-known and most used of the decentralized file storage protocols. It was created by Protocol Labs, the same company that designed and launched Filecoin. While Filecoin can complement IPFS, it introduces a consensus layer that significantly increases complexity and cost. Similarly, Arweave
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OK, maybe sucked is too strong a word, but we definitely lost our way there for a bit. Our original API was purpose built to be as easy to use as possible. Our co-founder and CTO hated the complexity of a lot of the APIs he was using, and he
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