Hello, 👋

I am happy you are enjoying our newsletter, reading month after month about tools to drive sustainable innovation. This month we are coming to you with a shorter than usual edition, and a bit for the technical audience among you. Do not worry, next month we will be back with items for the AI novice.

In this edition, you can read about:

• User-friendly rate limiting with Redis Semaphores

• Our quarterly team building activity

Let’s dive in!

Anna

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬.

Whether it’s an AI-powered image generator, a data export tool, or a real-time collaboration feature, when ALL users want to use your features at the SAME time, your servers may crash under the load.

One solution is to simply reject requests when an overload is experienced. However, today we are exploring a more user-friendly queuing approach through Robert’s article: semaphores.

Learn more here

In other news:

LangChain raises $125M to build the platform for agent engineering

Integrate Claude with Microsoft365

To celebrate some big wins at our company such as moving office and the steadily growing team, we decided to organize a team activity last Friday evening.

The first stop was one of the best-rated Indian restaurants in the heart of Utrecht, followed by a 2-hour gaming session at Gamestate, and later some refreshments in the center.

Luckily, we were also able to informally meet and get to know our new team member, Cas. His background, interests and expertise will be introduced on our LinkedIn page in the coming weeks, so keep an eye out for that.