https://buzzchart.info IT buzzwords and software architecture concepts explained through charts. en https://buzzchart.info/post/continuous-integration-pipeline-for-100-git-repositories https://buzzchart.info/post/continuous-integration-pipeline-for-100-git-repositories Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT One hundred repositories. Four programming languages. Five different build systems. Getting them to integrate cleanly, continuously, without a dedicated integration sprint or a... https://buzzchart.info/post/building-lithuanian-law-assistant-llm-rag-part-2-rework https://buzzchart.info/post/building-lithuanian-law-assistant-llm-rag-part-2-rework Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I continue building a Lithuanian AI law assistant. I already have a POC with 4 laws chunked and loaded to the database with semantic retrieval. Is it useful? A bit. It can look up... https://buzzchart.info/post/lithuanian-lemmatization-a-practical-guide https://buzzchart.info/post/lithuanian-lemmatization-a-practical-guide Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lemmatization is needed in systems that extract, store, or query information based on terms. Words appear in different forms depending on grammar, but you need to normalize them... https://buzzchart.info/post/normalizing-diacritics-in-lithuanian https://buzzchart.info/post/normalizing-diacritics-in-lithuanian Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lithuanian writing system reflects this richness through extensive use of diacritical marks. The Lithuanian alphabet contains 32 letters , including several with diacritics that... https://buzzchart.info/post/building-lithuanian-law-assistant-llm-rag-part-1 https://buzzchart.info/post/building-lithuanian-law-assistant-llm-rag-part-1 Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT I'm building another one, a new app. This time I'll share my progress and findings with you. I'm building a Lithuanian law assistant with LLM using RAG. As nowadays usual, it is a... https://buzzchart.info/post/securing-the-ui-supply-chain https://buzzchart.info/post/securing-the-ui-supply-chain Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Any UI project can come at this phase if no dependencies strategy present for it. Node dependency resolution algorithm allows having multiple dependencies of the same library in... https://buzzchart.info/post/how-jakobs-ten-usability-heuristics-applied-in-chatgpt-com https://buzzchart.info/post/how-jakobs-ten-usability-heuristics-applied-in-chatgpt-com Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT ✅ Text inputs has placeholder “Ask anything”, which is phrase tareted for chat user, opposed to “enter prompt”. https://buzzchart.info/post/llm-txt-a-standard-for-ai-documentation-access https://buzzchart.info/post/llm-txt-a-standard-for-ai-documentation-access Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT If you’ve ever asked an LLM about your own API and got an outdated answer, you know the pain. In the AI era — with all the vibe code hype and agentic development trends — the... https://buzzchart.info/post/cache-storage-in-ui https://buzzchart.info/post/cache-storage-in-ui Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Because where you store the cache affects your app’s architecture, performance, and security. If you’re designing a new system, this choice can even shape how your frontend... https://buzzchart.info/post/why-radix-ui-is-so-popular https://buzzchart.info/post/why-radix-ui-is-so-popular Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Is it popular? As of September 2025 it has 23 millions downloads per week. Which is huge compared to other mature components libraries, like antd(2M) or mui(1,5M). https://buzzchart.info/post/radix-ui-a-modern-headless-component-library https://buzzchart.info/post/radix-ui-a-modern-headless-component-library Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Radix UI is an open source headless UI component library for building design systems, websites, and web applications. Launched in late 2020 by the Modulz team, Radix UI provides a... https://buzzchart.info/post/rag-retrieval-augmented-generation https://buzzchart.info/post/rag-retrieval-augmented-generation Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. This is the process when the Large Language Models (LMM) input is enriched with a contextual information from the external sources... https://buzzchart.info/post/defining-microservice-scope-integrators-and-disintegrators https://buzzchart.info/post/defining-microservice-scope-integrators-and-disintegrators Fri, 16 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Microservice architecture has become a widely adopted approach for building scalable and maintainable systems. However, one of the most complex decisions when implementing this... https://buzzchart.info/post/5-ways-to-fail-modular-monolith https://buzzchart.info/post/5-ways-to-fail-modular-monolith Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT The modular monolith architecture isn’t new, but it’s become more popular as a way to balance the simplicity of a monolithic application with the flexibility of microservices. It... https://buzzchart.info/post/modular-monolith https://buzzchart.info/post/modular-monolith Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT A Modular Monolith is an architectural style that structures your application into distinct, well defined modules within a single codebase. It combines the simplicity and... https://buzzchart.info/post/session-state https://buzzchart.info/post/session-state Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Session state is a concept in the software applications to share a user specific data across multiple actions or requests during a single user session. User session can contain: https://buzzchart.info/post/webpack-module-federation https://buzzchart.info/post/webpack-module-federation Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT Module federation is a webpack 5 features. It allows independent deployments for you different applications. Same as HTML import map? Yes but it allows more flexible configuration... https://buzzchart.info/post/html-import-map https://buzzchart.info/post/html-import-map Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT How to load JS in the runtime, from a separate server? Browsers provide a native feature called HTML importmap. It is supported and works across all latest devices and browser... https://buzzchart.info/post/versioning-in-npm https://buzzchart.info/post/versioning-in-npm Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT NPM stands for Node Package Manager. It is the largest package registry in the world. It contains hundreds of thousands of packages uploaded to it. https://buzzchart.info/post/semantic-versioning https://buzzchart.info/post/semantic-versioning Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT It was introduced in 2009 by Tom Preston Werner, co founder of a GitHub. It was designed to provide a clear and universal way to mark software updates. There was a convention,... https://buzzchart.info/post/breaking-changes https://buzzchart.info/post/breaking-changes Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT Breaking changes is a result of a code changes, that how the API behaves. It can be low level code API, REST API, any microservice API or even user interface behavior. https://buzzchart.info/post/transform-view https://buzzchart.info/post/transform-view Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT The challenge of rendering HTML markup has been present since the inception of the web. This problem is solved by a multiple patterns mostly on the server side. Such patterns as... https://buzzchart.info/post/model-view-controller https://buzzchart.info/post/model-view-controller Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Model View Controller is a well known pattern, which was described in the late 1970s. Since then, it is widespread architectural pattern, which influenced many frameworks and... https://buzzchart.info/post/repository-query-object https://buzzchart.info/post/repository-query-object Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT The Repository is a design pattern, which helps to load data from the database providing abstract API, concealing the storage implementation details. https://buzzchart.info/post/lazy-load https://buzzchart.info/post/lazy-load Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Lazy load is a pattern to get data the data at the last moment, when it is actually required. This pattern is applied, when loading the data can have negative performance impact.... https://buzzchart.info/post/unit-of-work https://buzzchart.info/post/unit-of-work Sat, 03 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Unit of work collects all changes about domain objects, that need to be synced (with the database) and lets committing those at the end of a (business) transaction. Tracking and... https://buzzchart.info/post/uml-sequence-diagram https://buzzchart.info/post/uml-sequence-diagram Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. It was created to facilitate the communication and documentation of IT designs and architectures. A UML sequence diagram is a type of... https://buzzchart.info/post/uml-class-diagram https://buzzchart.info/post/uml-class-diagram Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. It was created to communicate and document IT designs and architecture. UML class diagram is a static structure diagram, that describes... https://buzzchart.info/post/acid-in-database-transactions https://buzzchart.info/post/acid-in-database-transactions Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) in IT is a properties of a business (or database) transactions, that guarantees the reliability and data integrity of the... https://buzzchart.info/post/concurrency-issues-and-solutions https://buzzchart.info/post/concurrency-issues-and-solutions Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Concurrency is a complex problem of the IT field. I'll try to explain some issues related to the concurrency and how to solve those issues. https://buzzchart.info/post/domain-model-vs-transaction-scripts https://buzzchart.info/post/domain-model-vs-transaction-scripts Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT In the book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler two patterns are defined to handle business logic in the system. I do not think that much have changed... https://buzzchart.info/post/microservice-communication-patterns https://buzzchart.info/post/microservice-communication-patterns Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Microservices can communicate synchronously and asynchronously. These are the main group of communication means for microservices. Lest dig in to unwrap, what does it mean. https://buzzchart.info/post/microservices-scaling-patterns https://buzzchart.info/post/microservices-scaling-patterns Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT You want to scale your microservice, when the load exceeds the available resources. Resources can be CPU, RAM, database throughput, workers pool. I will describe two common... https://buzzchart.info/post/domain-driven-design https://buzzchart.info/post/domain-driven-design Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT Domain driven design (DDD) is a methodology for designing software with a focus on the domain. DDD is one of the main practices used in the microservices development. I'll cover 3... https://buzzchart.info/post/cap-theorem https://buzzchart.info/post/cap-theorem Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT CAP abbreviation means: Consistency, Availability and Partitioning tolerance. Theorem states, that distributed data store can have two of three guarantees: https://buzzchart.info/post/progressive-delivery https://buzzchart.info/post/progressive-delivery Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT The goal is to have zero down time for deployment of the new version of the service. BlueGreen Deployment (BGD) is a technique having two instances (blue and green) of the same... https://buzzchart.info/post/distributed-transactions-in-microservices https://buzzchart.info/post/distributed-transactions-in-microservices Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Transactions in microservices are not possible, because of the distributed nature of microservices. Though you can implement compensation mechanisms to handle failures in multiple... https://buzzchart.info/post/observability https://buzzchart.info/post/observability Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Observability is a superset of tools and techniques to understand how a system works, exploring “knowns” and “unknowns” in the systems. Monitoring involves tracking and measuring... https://buzzchart.info/post/coupling-and-cohesion https://buzzchart.info/post/coupling-and-cohesion Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach 1st Edition by Mark Richards (Author), Neal Ford https://buzzchart.info/post/application-decomposition-patterns-in-microservices https://buzzchart.info/post/application-decomposition-patterns-in-microservices Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT patterns by Sam Newman from the book Microservices 2nd edition