Build Your Own AI News Agent with Redis + LangGraph.js.
NewTired of sifting through endless news sources and missing the topics you care about? This hands-on workshop empowers you to build a personalized AI news assistant using Redis and LangGraph.js. You’ll learn to ingest articles from RSS feeds, summarize and analyze them, extract structured data, and generate embeddings—all stored in Redis for powerful hybrid (vector + structured) search. Your agent will provide a web interface for browsing and semantic search, and even chat with you about current events, retrieving relevant articles and metadata using RAG techniques. LangGraph.js orchestrates the workflow, enabling summarization, embedding, and intelligent retrieval, while Redis Query Engine handles efficient search. You’ll also harness Agent Memory Server, giving your chatbot both short- and long-term memory so it can recall past conversations and learned facts. All the setup is scaffolded, so you can focus on building workflows, crafting queries, and exploring AI-driven news experiences. By the end, you’ll have the skills and code to create your own agentic news platform—tailored to your unique interests, whether mainstream or niche.
Guy Royse works for Redis as a Developer Advocate. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for learning—and for sharing what he has learned—Guy explores interesting topics and spreads the knowledge he has gained around developer communities worldwide. Teaching and community have long been a focus for Guy. He ran a local JavaScript meetup in Ohio for more than a decade and has served on the selection committees of numerous conferences. He'll happily speak anywhere that will have him and has even has helped teach programming at a prison in Central Ohio. In his personal life, Guy is a hard-boiled geek interested in role-playing games, science fiction, and technology. He also has a slightly less geeky interest in history and linguistics. He has an entire wall of role-playing games and science fiction books, speaks Spanish like a two-year-old, and is a ham radio operator—callsign W8GUY. Guy lives in Ohio with his wife.