About the Author - Maryia Shapel

Maryia Shapel

IT INDUSTRY OBSERVER

Maryia is an avid technology enthusiast who constantly follows the developments in the industry and enjoys shedding light on the hottest IT topics. She combines her own in-depth research with the direct input from seasoned engineers to create insightful and empowering content.

Real-Life Projects, AI & Machine Learning, Digital Transformation

How We Built a Production-Grade RAG Engine for a Website AI Chatbot

Modern websites don’t suffer from a lack of information — on the contrary, they often suffer from information overload. Blogs, news, service pages, event announcements, case studies… everything is useful, everything is scaling, and everything is scattered across navigation paths that make little sense to a visitor who just wants one specific answer.

Maryia Shapel

Jan 16, 2026

AI & Machine Learning

Falcon LLM Architecture: An In-Depth Technical Breakdown

Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced in recent years and transformed how we interact with AI. The global LLM market is booming – it is projected to grow from roughly $1,439,366.4 million in 2023 to $22,070,619.6 billion by 2030.

Maryia Shapel

Dec 02, 2025

E-Commerce & CX

Composable Commerce in Retail: Building Future-Proof Digital Stores

Consumers today demand seamless, personalized shopping experience across web, mobile, social media, and physical stores — setting a high bar for retailers’ technology platforms. Legacy ecommerce systems, often large monolithic suites, struggle to keep up with these modern requirements.

Maryia Shapel

Dec 01, 2025

Software Development, Technologies & Tools

How to Build a Next.js MVP: A Step-by-Step Guide

Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a proven strategy for the validation of your startup idea. After the release of a lean version of your product, you can gather real user feedback and avoid excessive investments in the extra features that your users don’t need.

Maryia Shapel

Nov 10, 2025

E-Commerce & CX, Magento, SAP CX

Magento vs. SAP CX and Commerce: The Ultimate Comparison

Choosing the right platform can make or break your online business. Global retail ecommerce sales are expected to come close to eight trillion dollars by 2028, which underscores how high the stakes are for picking a solution that fits your needs.

Maryia Shapel

Oct 30, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

AI Agents for Education: Revolutionizing Learning in 2025

As of 2025, artificial intelligence in education has moved into the mainstream: it’s not hard to imagine a college freshman in Seoul who aces a calculus exam after a week with an AI-powered tutor that predicted his weak spots days in advance, or a student with dyslexia reads aloud confidently not just due to practice, […]

Maryia Shapel

Aug 13, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

RAG LLM Architecture: How Retrieval-Augmented Generation Powers Smarter AI

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 have demonstrated remarkable abilities, they still don’t possess all knowledge in the world. Often, they are prone to hallucinations – false or outdated information – when users need a specific up-to-date response, as their knowledge is limited.

Maryia Shapel

Aug 08, 2025

AI & Machine Learning

Top 10 AI-Powered Learning Experience Platforms in 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how organizations deliver training and development. AI-powered learning experience platforms (LXPs) — advanced successors of traditional Learning Management Systems — are becoming essential for companies to personalize learning at scale and boost workforce skills.

Maryia Shapel

Jun 30, 2025

Software Development, Technologies & Tools

Java Web App Security: Everything You Need to Know

Java is famous for its wide usage in enterprise environments, financial systems and ecommerce platforms, so undoubtedly its security is of vital importance. In this article, we’ll explore the critical aspects of Java web application security, from factors that can weaken security in Java web applications and the most common vulnerabilities to Java features that […]

Maryia Shapel

Jan 31, 2025

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