Asaf Zamir – Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

Introduction

If you’ve built AI integrations before, you know the pain: connecting Claude to Slack requires custom code. Switch to GPT? Rebuild it. Add GitHub? Write another integration. Multiply this across every tool and every AI provider, and you’re drowning in glue code.

Introduction

Function calling transforms LLMs from chat interfaces into autonomous agents. This guide shows you how to implement it correctly across different providers.

During a previous project setup, I found myself deep in ESLint configuration files, fine-tuning rules and debating the merits of various code style choices. This experience got me thinking about the balance between code quality tools and development velocity.

Happy 2025! Starting the year by sharing a solution that might save you some debugging time.

Introduction

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is revolutionizing how financial institutions handle data and generate insights. This guide will walk you through building a cloud-native RAG system for enterprise FinTech applications.