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Building Dictum — a macOS Dictation App with Tauri 2 (Rust + React) & Azure OpenAI
Hold a keyboard shortcut, speak, release — audio goes to Azure OpenAI or OpenAI Whisper for transcription with an optional GPT rephrase pass via Smart Keywords, and the polished text is injected into whatever app is in focus. The Rust hot path for audio capture, accessibility permissions, overlay window, and the non-obvious bits of shipping a Tauri app on macOS.
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Building a Multi-Agent E-Commerce Platform: The Complete Guide
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How to build production-quality agent tools that query databases, validate business rules, and automatically scope data to the current user.
Multi-Agent Architecture: Orchestration and the A2A Protocol
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Observability -- Tracing Multi-Agent Workflows with OpenTelemetry
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Frontend: Rich Cards and Streaming Responses
Transform agent text responses into interactive product cards and order cards, then add token-by-token streaming via SSE so the UI feels instant -- all without changing the backend agents.
Production Readiness: Auth, RBAC, and Deployment
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Agent Memory -- Remembering Across Conversations
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Evaluating Agent Quality -- Testing What You Cannot Unit Test
Build a repeatable evaluation pipeline for multi-agent correctness -- golden datasets, automated scoring, and CI/CD integration.