This blog was originally published on Descope. OpenAI's Custom GPTs offer a powerful way to create AI agents that can interact directly with your APIs through natural language conversations. Imagine you have a deployed FastAPI application that implements DevOps tools such as triggering CI/CD workflows, getting deployment logs, usage analytics, and other operational tasks. While integrating your AP
The Nightmare of Parsing Invoices If you’ve ever tried to extract structured data from an invoice or receipt, you know exactly how painful it is. You write a perfect regular expression to extract the total amount from one vendor. It works beautifully. Then, a new vendor comes along with a slightly different format, and your regex silently fails, breaks your pipeline, and leaves you cleaning up
Most agency onboarding fails before the kickoff call happens. Not because the team isn't good. Not because the client is difficult. Because nobody collected the right context upfront, and the kickoff call becomes the place where everyone discovers what they don't know yet. The intake form is the fix. Not a 3-question "tell us about your project" form. A real one. Here's the framework we use — 27 q
SMS remains one of the most reliable communication channels available today, with open rates exceeding 90%. Whether you are building an OTP SMS API for authentication, setting up transactional alerts, or automating marketing workflows, a robust SMS API integration is a powerful addition to any stack. In this tutorial, we will explore how a REST SMS API works and walk through a practical implementa
What is Azure Storage? Azure storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution. It allows storage of unstructured data, pdfs, file shares etc. The following steps in this article outlines how I was able to create storage for the department's testing and training. In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups Select + Create Give your resource group a name. For example, storagerg
If you've worked with Drupal long enough, you've faced this decision: Do I build a custom module for this or can ECA handle it? Use ECA When The logic is workflow-based Non-developers need to maintain it ECA workflows live in the admin UI. Your client or site admin can read, modify, and debug them without touching code. A custom module cannot offer that. Speed matters A workflow that would tak
Most async APIs commit to one thing: starting your job. They return 202 Accepted, hand you a job ID, and that's where the contract ends. The rest is your problem. I do something different. I make one promise: When your job is done, I'll tell you accurately. Until then, I'll keep retrying. That's the entire contract for everything I've ever shipped. It sounds small. In practice, it's the only thing
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