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Since my last post on 𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹 got some good responses, I thought I’d share an experience with another library I explored about a month ago: 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 by 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲. At a high level, LangExtract gives you an interface to work directly with data extraction. You pass raw text as input, define your own custom schema, and the library extracts values based on that schema. Conceptually, it’s simple and quite powerful. One thing I liked is its flexibility. It can be used for multiple use cases, including PDF content extraction, which is a real problem space on its own. But there are a few limitations I ran into that are worth highlighting. First, LangExtract does 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗗𝗙𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆. It only accepts raw text as a string. So if you’re working with PDFs, PPTs, or similar formats, you need to build your own wrapper. That means extracting text using a PDF or PPT reader first, then passing that text into LangExtract. It works, but it adds extra engineering overhead. Second, while the library mentions a JSON-style structure for defining schemas, 𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱. You can define fields at one level, but going deeper becomes a problem. For example, if you model a patient → address → street hierarchy, you can’t represent this cleanly in a hierarchical way. Instead, you end up defining separate flat entities and extracting them independently, which feels restrictive for complex real-world data. That said, I still think LangExtract is important. Its real potential, in my opinion, will show up if it integrates 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 (𝗩𝗟𝗠𝘀). If OCR and visual understanding become native, users could directly ingest PDFs, scanned documents, or images without building custom wrappers. That would be a real game changer. Overall, LangExtract is a solid idea with clear strengths, but also some practical gaps today. I’m curious to see how it evolves, especially around multimodal ingestion. Would love to hear if others here have tried it or faced similar constraints. Github Repo: https://lnkd.in/dDb3_WPX #LangExtract #LangChain #LLMs #GenerativeAI #InformationExtraction #Google #LLMTools

I've been heads-down shipping a high-scale dashboard at my last gig, watching Python teams at places like OpenAI and Google quietly pivot from siloed data pipelines to full-stack web beasts. The question every senior engineer is whispering in those late-night standups: is web dev really clawing back from JS dominance, or just hype? Here's the real shift I saw firsthand: we had this agentic AI workflow choking on sync bottlenecks, processing 10k user queries a minute. Swapped in FastAPI with Rust-accelerated ASGI servers, async everywhere, and suddenly we're at 3k reqs/sec without melting GPUs. Data scientists who never touched web before are now owning APIs end-to-end—because why hand off to a Node team when your ML models live in Python? OpenAI's tooling makes agentic AI spit out production-ready endpoints in hours, not weeks, and Google's edge compute layers it seamlessly. Tradeoff? You debug Rust FFI leaks at 2am, but the 30% productivity spike is undeniable. No more divided worlds—Python's gluing AI into web at scale. What's your take on FastAPI infiltrating data teams? Hit reply. #Python #FastAPI #AIEngineering #WebDev #SeniorEngineer

Understanding APIs is non-negotiable. No matter your role - developer, data engineer, AI engineer, or product manager 🔹 Key Takeaways: ✅ API Fundamentals Understand different API types: public, private, composite - and where each fits in real-world applications. ✅ Architectures Explained REST, GraphQL, Webhooks - when to use each architecture for maximum efficiency. ✅ Security Essentials Protect your APIs with OAuth, JWT, and encryption against evolving threats. ✅ Top Tools for Testing & Documentation Master Swagger for documenting and Postman for debugging APIs like a pro. ✅ Choosing the Right Framework Flask, Spring Boot, FastAPI - picking the right tech accelerates your API development. ✅ Design for Scalability Implement best practices like versioning, pagination, and RESTful standards to future-proof your APIs. [Explore More In The Post] Follow Future Tech Skills for more such information and don’t forget to save this post for later #datascience #machinelearning #artificialintelligence #bigdata #analytics #dataanalytics #deeplearning #ai #datascientist #python #datavisualization #linkedin

Building a resilient data pipeline is about more than just writing a scraper. 🏗️ I’m excited to share my latest project, CityPulse AI. The challenge was building an agent that could handle dynamic web content while maintaining a structured, cloud-based data store. Key Engineering Highlights: 🔹 Resilient Scraping: Implemented a hybrid engine using SerpApi for speed, with a Selenium fallback to handle dynamic roadblocks. 🔹 Cloud Persistence: Integrated Supabase to move beyond static local files, allowing for scalable data storage and future trend analysis. 🔹 Geospatial Analysis: Used Mapbox and Plotly to transform raw coordinates into actionable heatmaps. This project was a great exercise in full-stack data engineering—from raw ingestion to interactive visualization. Source Code: [https://lnkd.in/grsAKpTC] Live App: [https://lnkd.in/gV5WgF_4] #DataEngineering #PostgreSQL #Python #ETL #SoftwareDevelopment #Streamlit #Supabase #Selenium #GoogleMapsAPI #CloudComputing #FullStackDeveloper #MarketIntelligence #BusinessIntelligence #LeadGeneration #DataDriven #Innovation

🤖 Everyone’s talking about AI. 🧹 Most teams are still fixing data quality. ❌ No clean data → no reliable AI ❌ No solid pipelines → no trusted decisions 🏗️ Data engineering is still the foundation. 📊 Always has been. Always will be. #DataEngineering #AI #DataQuality #Python #SQL #Cloud 🚀

Introducing Living Knowledge Platform — a relationship-aware “codebase assistant” that helps engineers understand large systems faster 🙂 Instead of digging through stale docs and endless “find usages,” it lets you ask the codebase questions and get clear, source-backed explanations. What makes it useful… 1. Explains end-to-end flows (checkout, retries, onboarding, etc.) across layers, not just single files. 2. Gives PR blast-radius / impact analysis: “If I change this method, what downstream paths might get affected?” 3. Helps with incident debugging by pointing out where the exact problem is. 4. Enables architecture guardrails like “controllers shouldn’t call repositories” and flags violations early. 5. Stays “living” as the code changes, so knowledge doesn’t rot like docs and diagrams. Medium link: https://lnkd.in/gSikAGcQ #GoogleCloud #GoogleADK #Cursor #Community #jobs #careers #AI #Antigravity

Super excited to release the K8s Agent Orchestration Framework (KAOS) to help manage distributed agentic systems at scale 🚀 Try it out, add an issue and give it a star ⭐️ https://lnkd.in/e-tuuHTf The KAOS Framework addresses some of the pains of taking multi-agent / multi-tool / multi-model systems to hundreds or thousands of services! It started as an experiment to build agentic copilots, and has progressed as a fun endevour building distributed systems for A2A, MCP Servers, and model inference! The initial release comes with a few key features including: 1) Golang control plane to manage Agentic CRDs; 2) Python data plane that implements a2a, memory, tool / model mgmt; 3) React UI for CRUD+debugging, and; 4) CI/CD setup with KIND/pytest/ginko/etc. I have to say I am impressed on the level of abstraction that is possible to reach with agentic copilots when covering domains with higher level of experience - a blog post will follow on this topic specifically! For the meantime do check out the repo, docs and examples to try it out - as of today the most valuable thing is ideas and feedback, so do submit an issue with any thoughts! Docs: https://lnkd.in/e2F65hZz Repo: https://lnkd.in/e-tuuHTf — If you liked this post you can join 70,000+ practitioners for weekly tutorials, resources, OSS frameworks, and MLOps events across the machine learning ecosystem: https://lnkd.in/eRBQzVcA #ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MLOps #AIOps #DataOps #augmentedintelligence #deeplearning #privacy #kubernetes #datascience #python #bigdata

Day 454: 1/1/2026 What Is Modin — Parallelizing Pandas with Dask and Ray? Pandas is simple, expressive, and widely used — but it is fundamentally limited by single-node, single-threaded execution. Modin was created to solve exactly this problem. It allows you to scale Pandas workloads without changing your Pandas code, by executing them in parallel using distributed execution engines. ⚡ What Modin Actually Does --> Keeps the Pandas API --> Splits DataFrames into partitions --> Executes operations in parallel --> Uses an execution engine underneath to schedule work You write: import modin.pandas as pd …and Modin handles parallelism for you. The real difference lies in which engine Modin uses. ⚙️ Modin Execution Engines Modin currently supports two major backends: --> Dask --> Ray They both parallelize Pandas — but they do it in very different ways. ⚡ Dask Backend: Lazy, Graph-Based Execution Dask is designed specifically for Python data workloads. Key characteristics: --> Builds a task graph of operations --> Executes lazily (nothing runs until needed) --> Optimizes the graph before execution --> Schedules tasks across multiple workers This is well-suited for: --> analytical workloads --> large batch processing --> pipelines with many chained operations Think of Dask as: “Plan everything first, then execute efficiently.” ⚡ Ray Backend: Eager, Distributed Execution Ray is designed for distributed systems and services, not just data processing. Key characteristics: --> Executes tasks eagerly --> Schedules tasks immediately as they are created --> Excellent for low-latency and interactive workloads --> Strong support for actors, services, and ML pipelines This makes Ray a good fit for: --> interactive analysis --> ML training pipelines --> serving and orchestration workloads Stay tuned for more AI insights! 😊 #Modin #Pandas #Dask #Ray #DataEngineering #ParallelComputing

🚀 FastAPI is a modern Python framework built for high-performance, production-ready APIs. ⚙️ Built on Starlette (async networking) and Pydantic (strict data validation), FastAPI efficiently handles thousands of concurrent requests while keeping APIs clean, predictable, and easy to maintain. 🔑 What FastAPI offers: ⚡ Async-first architecture for I/O-bound and concurrent workloads 📄 Automatic API documentation (Swagger UI & ReDoc) from type hints 🛡️ Type-safe request & response validation using Pydantic 🚀 High performance comparable to Node.js and Go 🔐 Easy integration with JWT / OAuth2, databases, and background tasks 🤖 Why FastAPI is widely used in AI/ML systems: - Serving ML models as REST APIs - Powering LLM & RAG pipelines (LangChain, vector databases) - Handling real-time inference and async model calls - Acting as a backend for MLOps workflows and AI microservices 🏗️ In production, FastAPI is commonly deployed with Uvicorn + Gunicorn, containerized using Docker, and scaled behind a load balancer — making it ideal for ML-driven, scalable backend architectures. FastAPI isn’t just about speed — it’s about building reliable, scalable, and maintainable APIs, especially for AI/ML-powered applications. #FastAPI #Python #BackendDevelopment #AI #MachineLearning #APIs #SystemDesign #SoftwareEngineering

Is Django Compatible with AI Agents (LLMs, RAG, Vector DBs)? Absolutely. A common myth suggests Django is “not suitable” for AI-driven systems. That’s false. Django integrates seamlessly with modern AI stacks: - LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, etc.) - RAG pipelines - Vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma) Why does this work? Django’s strength lies in orchestration, not model training. What Django Handles Best: ✅ APIs & Authentication ✅ Data Ingestion & Preprocessing ✅ Background Jobs (Celery, RQ) ✅ Permissions, Billing & User Flows AI agents don’t replace backend systems, they layer on top of them. A Typical Production Architecture Django → Vector DB → LLM → Django API It’s: - Clean - Scalable - Production-ready If you can build reliable systems, you can build AI systems. The framework isn’t the limitation. Architecture and understanding are. Have you built or planned AI features with Django yet? Let’s discuss in the comments 👇 #Django #AI #LLM #RAG #VectorDatabase #BackendDevelopment #MachineLearning #SoftwareArchitecture