Posts by Brian Baliach

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Brian Baliach

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Posts by Brian Baliach

Brian Baliach • • in Tutorials • 11 min read
Building production-grade AI agents is tricky. In a landscape shifting rapidly, betting your entire architecture on a single provider's raw SDK allows for quick starts but leads to brittle vendor lock-in. This is where Google’s Agent Development Kit ...
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Brian Baliach • • in Tutorials • 8 min read
Imagine this: You have an Excel or CSV or any other dataset, and you want quick, clear answers from it. Maybe something simple on the lines of: "What’s the average price by country?". Also, you do not use Excel or you just hate Microsoft and are an a...
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Brian Baliach • • in Articles • 3 min read
Using Private GitHub/Gitlab Repos in Your Next.js Projects Imagine this scenario: you're working on a super cool Next.js project, and you have some shared code that you'd like to use across multiple projects. You don't really want to make it public...
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Brian Baliach • • in Tutorials • 7 min read
We recently started partnering where I currently work with some of our customers to co-create content, and as a result we needed a way to stream files from the client to the server, through GraphQL. This added an extra layer of complexity, which took...
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Brian Baliach • • in Articles • 5 min read
Imagine this: You're typing a friendly message in a WhatsApp group directed to one of your peers, and your fingers, seemingly possessed by a digital imp, instead of typing 'far too nice', types 'fart oo nice'. Now everyone thinks you're a creep. Fru...
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Brian Baliach • • in Tutorials • 5 min read
So, What Are TypeScript Decorators? In the simplest of terms, a decorator in TypeScript is like a wrapping paper. You take a function or a class and wrap it with another function that adds some extra features. Decorators provide a way to add both m...
Brian Baliach • • in Articles • 9 min read
When it comes to tool-calling and agentic AI, the internet seems awash with tutorials for Anthropic’s Claude or the latest from OpenAI’s GPTs. But what if you want to ride the less-documented Gemini wave? If you’ve searched far and wide for a compre...
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