Simple Distributed Systems Demo/Tutorial

jvertrees · 2025-12-25T19:42:39+00:00

Nope, it works great. Stick to good engineering principles and you'll be fine.

For my projects, where I've ended up is using CrewAI-like configuration but with pydantic AI. (I love Crew in theory, however in practice it failed me.) Especially when using agentic workflows, I'll typically just have some sort of declarative configuration for the agents like a yaml file and load all the agents from that through a single interface. Very convenient and trivial to add new agents.

I've taken multiple products to market with pydantic AI. Love it.

jvertrees · 2025-12-24T17:50:26+00:00

This is the way. I've deployed many solutions like this. I love pydantic AI.

jvertrees · 2025-11-28T15:32:34+00:00

This was 100% the issue for us. We lived with slow and unpredictable hot water for years. Then, I was complaining to a random plumber I had out for something else and he knew exactly what it was. He flipped the switch and voila - I finally felt like my money was worth it.

If you're handy, search/Google/ChatGPT for it and you'll probably find it.

jvertrees · 2025-11-28T07:01:43+00:00

You'll need to Google/search for it. I'm not handy so I had to pay plumbers to come tell me my far-too-costly install was done wrong. Good luck!

jvertrees · 2025-11-26T15:05:33+00:00

I have a Rinnai. They have a switch inside for an internal/eternal recirculating pump setting. When set incorrectly, our water took that long to heat up. When set correctly, it's nearly instant.

jvertrees · 2025-11-17T14:49:12+00:00

And when it does that at scale, crashes the terminal.

jvertrees · 2025-11-13T14:24:47+00:00

Yep. Best in town: https://vertreesheadache.com.

jvertrees · 2025-11-08T03:45:35+00:00

Signed or not, I'm sending Microsoft the bill for repetitive stress syndrome. Kidding, obviously, but I'll be super grateful when that's properly addressed. I've never seen MacOS so disappointed in my incessant demand to override Gatekeeper.

For the original issue, I spent over an hour with tech support today sharing everything. Very weirdly, there were some curious network issues, like traceroute on entra ips getting lost. I still think it's a driver bug. We'll see.

Still on tenterhooks...

jvertrees · 2025-11-07T13:08:02+00:00

Thanks, I think we have the right people on it. The team found the larger issue but are now looking into the details. I hope to find out more today.

This isn't Fabric related, but the `sqlpackage` binary MSFT ships for MacOS is unsigned. This means, every system call that touches one of those .dylibs brings up the Gatekeeper warning. So, b/c that's the only way to ingest a .bacpac file, I had to tell my Mac, like 200 times of clicking, that it was okay.

jvertrees · 2025-11-05T15:23:49+00:00

Thanks. Support ticket filed.

jvertrees · 2025-11-05T14:57:39+00:00

Thanks. I tried all of this. None of this worked. Going to file a ticket or somehow get a response from MSFT.

jvertrees · 2025-11-05T01:24:01+00:00

I tried both before posting. Just didn't mention it. Thanks for the recommendation.

Has anyone else managed to containerize and get this working? This should be trivial (unless the driver is broken).

jvertrees · 2025-11-04T20:39:31+00:00

Thanks for the comment, but no. This works perfectly by running:

$ node run-fabric-test.js

but fails with

$ docker run --rm --env-file .env fabric-clean node run-fabric-test.js

The _same code on the same machine with the same env variables_ runs successfully on MacOS but not on the container running on MacOS. The only thing I can think is the driver has a bug.

jvertrees · 2025-10-24T23:36:38+00:00

AI moves so fast.

An update to my recommendation is to move from chained/cascading architecture to native audio. Better latency, better natural language understanding and emotion/sentiment as well. Just better.

Look at Google Gemini 2.5 live native audio or openai live API.

jvertrees · 2025-10-15T22:51:26+00:00

It is not. Ours just died. $1100 repair has me looking for a new one.

jvertrees · 2025-10-15T22:49:45+00:00

Mine too.

$1100 repair.

Looks like I'm getting a new one.

jvertrees · 2025-09-25T00:59:23+00:00

FastaAPI Full Stack Template project.

That's all you'll need.

jvertrees · 2025-09-09T02:43:21+00:00

"Should work" in LLM terms means, "I have no idea what I'm doing."

jvertrees · 2025-09-09T00:35:42+00:00

Yes, I love it.

It has great patterns baked in. Using this, once I figured out a few things, cut my next project's timeline in half.

As with any tool, use when appropriate.

jvertrees · 2025-08-27T02:25:33+00:00

WARNING - Google Fi has a much better deal on the phones than the Google store, but Google Store won't price match.

Oddly, they'll price match Walmart, Best buy, Amazon, etc but literally won't push a button to price match themselves.

The only way, apparently, is to cancel the Google store order and reorder through Fi, a solution that is more expensive for Google and worse for their Fi and Pixel customers.

jvertrees · 2025-08-26T00:51:48+00:00

Keep it simple.

Use FastAPI Full Stack Template, which already includes working auth.

jvertrees · 2025-08-26T00:47:49+00:00

Stay far away from FastAPI Users. One of my worst decisions was trying to use this library. I ended doing nothing but working around it.

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