Smarter‘s API keys are django-rest-knox tokens, extended into a model called SmarterAuthToken. The database keeps only a SHA-512 digest of each key and its first 15 characters. Every key has a separate random UUID that serves as its public name,…
Calico went in because the cluster had become shared, and in a shared, flat network the most valuable thing in it, the database, was protected by a password and nothing else. Calico is an open-source tool that decides which of…
Smarter declares its LLM guardrails as YAML manifests. A Guardrail is a resource like any other, applied with the same apply command as an LLMClient or a Plugin, and attached to an LLMClient by name. This post describes what a…
smarter-api is the official Python SDK of Smarter. It is to Smarter what the openai package is to the OpenAI api. One pip install gives your Python code typed access to your own Smarter platform, whether it runs on your…
Smarter‘s production environment runs in an Amazon VPC where no pod, node, database or cache has a public IP address, and where web traffic has exactly one way in, through a Network Load Balancer on ports 80 and 443, in…
Smarter’s React integration is a bridge between Django’s server-rendered web platform and modern React user interfaces. Rather than treating React as a disconnected single-page application bolted onto Django, Smarter implements React as a first-class extension of the Django runtime itself.…
Smarter’s nightly MariaDB backup runs as a Kubernetes CronJob that dumps the database with a read-only account, receives only the environment variables it needs, installs only the tools it needs and verifies them, checks that the dump is complete before…
Caching a function’s results sounds like a solved problem, and inside one Python process it is, because functools.lru_cache does it in one line. But a Django application doesn’t run in one process. It runs in several web workers and several…
The short answer is, “it’s always about money”. Smarter runs MariaDB for relational persistence, and Traefik for its reverse proxy service (aka the ‘web server’). Both work great, but you nonetheless would not be faulted for asking, “why cut against…
Smarter‘s Proxy is a Django view, built on httpx, that forwards requests to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini or Azure OpenAI with the provider’s API key added on the way out, so the people and programs that call the model never…