Backend team lead & architect with 10+ years experience, full‑stack engineer, sharing insights and solo development practice.
After experiencing up to 50% battery loss overnight when the MacBook lid is closed, the author diagnosed the issue using pmset, identified Bluetooth and Handoff as culprits, and applied three configuration changes—including disabling network wake, turning off Handoff, and using Bluesnooze—to reduce nightly drain to under 5%.
This guide walks you through setting up Spring AI, configuring model providers and vector stores, initializing a Spring Boot project, adding OpenAI credentials, and running a complete RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) demo with code snippets and sample API calls.
This guide compares Ollama and Hugging Face for running large language models locally, detailing API and local execution methods, installation steps, model selection, resource requirements, integration with AnythingLLM, container deployment, embedding and vector store setup, and practical observations on performance and limitations.
