Author of the rpcx microservice framework, original book author, and chair of Baidu's Go CMC committee.
LangGraph extends LangChain by letting developers define stateful, multi‑agent LLM workflows as graphs with nodes, edges, and shared state, and the article walks through core concepts, typical use cases, and a detailed example that shows how to define state, nodes, edges, compile and run the graph.
This guide explains what LangChain toolkits are, why they simplify building domain‑specific AI agents, lists common built‑in toolkits, and walks through the step‑by‑step process of instantiating a toolkit, retrieving its tools, and creating an OpenAI‑powered agent, illustrated with a SQL database example.
This guide explains how LangChain’s Expression Language (LCEL) lets you declaratively connect prompts, models, and output parsers into chains, walks through environment setup, dependency installation, and detailed code examples ranging from a basic joke generator to retrieval‑augmented generation and memory‑enabled agents.
Learn how LangChain enables multimodal interactions by preparing inputs, constructing prompts, invoking models like GPT‑4o, and processing responses, with a complete example that demonstrates image‑question answering, code walkthrough, environment setup, and key considerations for API keys and image URLs.
This guide explains what LangChain tools are, why clear descriptions matter, and walks through three ways to create them—using the @tool decorator, StructuredTool with Pydantic models, and custom BaseTool subclasses—plus examples of built‑in tools and reference links.
This article explains the core concept of LangChain agents—combining an LLM, a set of tools, and a reasoning‑action loop—to enable dynamic decision‑making, tool invocation, and iterative observation for solving complex, multi‑step tasks.
This article explains how LangChain's Indexing API adds state management and synchronization to the classic load‑split‑embed‑store RAG pipeline, detailing the RecordManager component, the index function workflow, key parameters, implementation considerations, and best‑practice code examples for production‑grade vector stores.
This article explains the concept of LangChain retrievers, compares them with vector stores, and provides step‑by‑step code examples for MultiQueryRetriever and EnsembleRetriever, showing how to boost recall and combine semantic and keyword search for robust RAG pipelines.
This article introduces pyproc, a library that lets Go applications invoke Python functions via Unix Domain Sockets with sub‑45 µs latency, explaining the problem of mixing Go and Python ecosystems, the architecture, performance benefits, suitable use cases, and a step‑by‑step quick‑start guide with full code examples.
This article explains what vector stores are, outlines their core workflow of adding, querying, and searching embeddings, compares popular back‑ends like FAISS, Chroma, and Pinecone, and walks through a complete Chinese‑language example using LangChain’s FAISS integration with detailed code and result analysis.
