The Shift Toward Local AI: A Developer’s Perspective

John Hoestje Articles, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Machine Learning, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

AI has moved fast, faster than most of us expected, and the cost of keeping up is starting to show. What began as inexpensive, wide-open access to powerful cloud models has shifted into a landscape of rising token prices, stricter quotas, and unpredictable availability. More teams are starting to ask a question that would have sounded unrealistic a year ago: should we start hosting our AI models locally?

In this post, I’ll walk through why token costs and model access are becoming harder to rely on, why open models and local hardware are closing the gap, and what actually happened when I ran a full agentic workflow on my own machine, starting with the cost problem that kicked this off.

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Government Enterprise CI/CD Platform Modernization Case Study

Lauren Fournier Bogner AWS, Case Study, Cloud, DevOps, Energy & Public Sectors Leave a Comment

Client: A large federal government agency Industry: Federal Government Services: DevSecOps Platform Engineering, CI/CD Architecture, Cloud Migration, Application Security Integration Outcome: A unified CI/CD platform supporting 400 to 500 applications across four technology stacks, with time-to-deployment reduced by more than 30% and thousands of engineering hours saved annually. Large federal agencies rarely run one technology stack. Java teams, JavaScript and …

Building a React Component Library for Next.js with Storybook

Bob Palmer Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, React, Tutorial Leave a Comment

In my last post, Implementing GitHub OAuth with NextAuth.js, we set up a standard single sign on flow with GitHub OAuth in NextAuth.js. This article assumes that you have followed along with that article already, and have your own version of that project locally. If not, but you already have a Next.js project, then you can follow along here just the same.

Last time, we set up a very basic dashboard to demonstrate displaying a signed-in user’s name, avatar, and some usage data from the GitHub API. Since then, NextAuth.js has evolved into Auth.js, but the GitHub implementation remains largely the same. However, if you haven’t upgraded your Next.js projects in a while, I would recommend doing so first.

In this post, we’ll pick up where we left off: upgrading your project’s dependencies, then decomposing your components into a scalable library using atomic design principles (atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, and pages). From there, we’ll install and configure Storybook for Next.js and Tailwind, write your first component stories in Component Story Format 3, and set up shared fixtures so you can preview and test components without depending on live GitHub API calls.