Jack Mu

Developer Advocate

22

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Jack Mu is a Developer Advocate at Paragon, with expertise in building and fine-tuning RAG and agentic applications.

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Articles by Jack Mu

Thought Leadership

Introducing ActionKit Triggers: Subscribe to any integration event

ActionKit Triggers makes it easy to subscribe to any of your users' 3rd-party webhook subscriptions.

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Where Merge’s Permissions Fall Short, and How Paragon Solves the Permissions Challenge

Paragon's permissions strategy was built to handle file storage nuances from integrations like Google Drive, Confluence, and SharePoint. Read about how Paragon's approach compares to Merge's, how they work, and downstream tradeoffs.

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Introducing the Paragon Skill

Build integrations faster than ever with Paragon's infrastructure and your coding agents. The Paragon Skill works alongside your coding agent of choice, providing context on how to build production-grade integrations with Paragon. No API maintenance, reliable infrastructure, and shipping integrations for your users in weeks, not months.

Product Strategy

Build Enterprise-Ready Integrations with Paragon's Self-Hosted Offering

Paragon can be completely self-hosted in your cloud environment. With Paragon' self-hosted option, you leverage Paragon's integration platform to rapidly build product integrations, while ensuring that your users' integration data is fully contained in your own infrastructure.

Comparison

ActionKit, Composio, MCP: A Comparison of Tool Providers

ActionKit is Paragon's purpose-built product for AI agent tools. Compare the mechanics, developer experience, and performance of ActionKit against Composio and 3rd-party MCPs.

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Your Guide to CRM Syncs

Building a Sales & GTM SaaS? Learn what a CRM Sync is, why you may want one, and popular CRM Sync use cases.

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How MCP Fits Into Building Integrations

While MCPs simplify and standardize how AI agents interface with 3rd-party APIs, they don't support the full set of use cases necessary for native product integrations.

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Synchronous vs Asynchronous Integration Use Cases

Different integration use cases require fundamentally different implementation considerations. We'll walk through the differences between synchronous and asynchronous use cases, and how Paragon provides solutions for both durable long-running tasks as well as responsive time-sensitive tasks.

Integrations

How Paragon Fits into your Product Tech Stack

Paragon is an integrations platform that fits into the modern SaaS tech stack. Paragon's node.js SDK can slot into your frontend. Paragon's workflow engine can be a part of your backend, processing data between your application and 3rd-party APIs.

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Comprehensive Guide to the RAG Tech Stack

This guide walks through industry standard technology choices for building a RAG application. From vector databases to response evaluation tools, we cover different options per function category and our recommendations for starting your RAG tech stack.

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Building Webhook Listeners for Real-Time Integration Use Cases

3rd party webhooks are critical for enabling real-time integration use case. But because there are no standards, they can be very hard to build and maintain - we cover all the challenges to watch out for in this article.