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Adding Conversational AI to Your App — Part 2: Adding Conversation History to the Context

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Tool Limitations In Part 1, we went over converting natural language requests into commands, using LLMs. That’s a nice improvement from having to enter slash commands, but the current tool still has two major limitations: No flexible editing: There’s no way to update or delete an existing item using natural language. When referring to a todo, you have to use its list position (e.g., “the second item”, “1”), instead of describing it naturally (“Delete the milk reminder”, “Make filing taxes…

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Adding Conversational AI to Your App — Part 1: Converting Natural Language into JSON Actions

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What We’re Building When I recently paired with Claude Code to build a text-based to-do app (code available on Github, disclaimer: mostly generated by Claude), I wanted to add a simple natural language interface. In this post, we’ll build that feature using TypeScript, Node, and an OpenAI model, without using any special frameworks that might get in the way of learning.  We’ll start with the gpt-3.5-turbo model. It’s not the most powerful model, but it’s cost-effective. In future posts, we’ll…

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Migrating Java Applications to Kubernetes

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Your CTO messages you out of the blue one day: How much effort would it be to run XYZ on Kubernetes? Shudder. Although there are some nuances to the process, it is fairly straightforward. This article assumes some knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and JVM applications. Our goal is to migrate the application with as few changes as possible and for the application to run as well or better on Kubernetes. Use a Cgroups-Friendly JDK The first step in migrating your…

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Unleashing AI in Marketing: Key Insights from Slice Communications & Chariot Solutions Webinar

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AI is reshaping marketing as we know it, but how do we use it effectively, ethically, and strategically? On January 15, 2025, Slice Communications and Chariot Solutions hosted a webinar titled “Unleashing AI in Marketing: Strategies to Transform Your Business” to tackle this pressing question. Featuring a panel of AI experts, digital strategists, and marketing leaders, the discussion explored real-world applications, ethical considerations, and the future of AI-driven marketing. If you missed the live session, here’s a breakdown of the…

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Populating a Data Lake with AWS Database Migration Service and Amazon Data Firehose

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Data lakes are great for holding large volumes of data, such as clickstream logs. But such data has limited usefulness unless you can combine it with data from your transactional, line-of-business databases. And this is where things get tricky. Simple approaches, such as replicating entire tables, don’t scale. Streaming approaches that include updates and deletes require logic to determine the latest value (or existence!) of any given row. All of which has to be translated into static data files in a data lake.

In this post I look at one approach to solve this problem: AWS Data Migration Service to capture changes from the source database and write them to a Kinesis Data Stream, and Amazon Data Firehose to load those records into Iceberg tables.

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Notes on a Hobby Project, or a Foray into HTMX

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What is HTMX? For many years I’ve been exclusively a back-end developer, using Java and more recently using Go. I have observed from a distance the churn in front end frameworks and the rise of Javascript-based single-page apps as the de facto thick client. I also happen to work for an excellent company that puts on an annual technical conference. A few years back, I was very intrigued by a talk given by Carson Gross. He described his invention, HTMX,…

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Automate the Boring Stuff with AI

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My motivation for creating tools often stems from a desire to get familiar with new technologies. This project was no different; I wanted to deepen my understanding of Generative AI. However, this wasn’t the primary reason for its creation. The real driving force was a persistent gap in my workflow that I couldn’t ignore any longer. Every so often I’ll encounter a task that makes me think, “If only this one thing was more like this,” or “If I could…

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Navigating Social Sweepstakes 2025: Insights & Strategies from Matt Kaufman

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Chariot Solutions is a dedicated partner to operators in the gaming industry, including the social sweepstakes category. We empower our clients to innovate and thrive in a competitive market. This is achieved through our tailored services in custom software development, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering. To gain deeper insights into the technical challenges facing this segment of the industry in 2025, we reached out to Matt Kaufman, Managing Director of Digital & Interactive Gaming at Eilers and Krejcik Gaming (EKG). …

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HealthTech Data Infrastructure Trends

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HealthTech Data Infrastructure Trends The future of healthcare is deeply connected to the pace and effectiveness of groundbreaking new technologies like wearable devices, artificial intelligence, and robotic surgery that are redefining clinical outcomes.  For the innovators behind this new tech, data is key. In tandem with these advances, data analytics can help detect disease, facilitate the transition to value-based care models, improve physician performance, even predict possible outbreaks. Timely, relevant, actionable data is the fuel that powers HealthTech and enables…

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