Assorted links for Thursday, October 31:

1. The Future of APIs: Lessons in Security, Composability, AI
2. How Apollo Makes LLMs More Reliable with GraphQL

   GraphQL’s structured query language proves to be an ideal match for AI tools, offering more reliable and focused results compared to broader LLM applications.

3. How useful is the hint passed to the std::unordered_… collections?: An unsorted followup on Speeding up the insertion of a sorted (or mostly-sorted) key list into a std::map or other ordered associative container
4. What is a Vector Database & How Does it Work? Use Cases + Examples
5. What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?