Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 6, 2023

You can read about the fully managed Azure Load and Performance testing service. The open sourcing of LMOps: a collection of tools for improving text prompts used as input to generative AI models. Also interesting is vector search, and what you can do with it. Finally if you are interested in Kafka there is an excellent introductory guide to Kafka.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 12, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 5, 2023

In this week's roundup, you'll read about optimized locking in Azure SQL (very cool) and why Flink is so popular. Related to Flink, we also look at operational use cases for Flink, as well as some Flink CEP "stuff".

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 5, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 4, 2023

This roundup, which arrives one day earlier than usual, looks at cloud OLTP databases and whether we can get them to be really scalable. There is a link to a post looking at *Azure Data Explorer** together with Azure Serverless functions - very cool! An interesting post about ML in online gaming, plus a lot of other cool stuff.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, January 28, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 3, 2023

This week we look at cool visualizations in Azure Data Explorer using Plotly. Interesting about benefits and challenges of distributed computing. Comparison of different SQL-based streaming approaches and their use cases, including a look at a streaming database. A really good post about Time in Flink.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 22, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 2, 2023

This weeks roundup includes links to articles and videos about using Azure OpenAI and deploying ML models with FastAPI and Azure, as well as a post about Change Data Capture and its patterns. I also discuss my experience with trying to run Flink SQL in Docker. In short, the Flink Docker experience could be better!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 15, 2023

Interesting Stuff - XMas, New Year 2022, Week 1 2023

In this post we look at a excellent resource for Azure Machine Learning. Of course, when we talk about machine learning, we need to mention ChatGPT. We look at the "Tinder" app for **Azure Data Explorer** - "Find my partner". The BIG one the post looks at is how Confluent acquires Immerok, which offers a fully managed Flink implementation!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 8, 2023

Revolutionizing My Blog: Why I Changed my Hugo Theme

A couple of days ago I switched to a new Hugo theme. In this post I look at the reasoning behind that.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, January 7, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 50, 2022

Kafka & streaming .NET apps, Azure Data Explorer & AI/ML, ChatGPT awesomeness, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 18, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 49, 2022

Kafka consumer groups, ChatGPT VM, autoscaling data pipelines, can we handle analysis, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 11, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2022

Kafka & real-time or not real-time, Azure Data Explorer architecture, OpenAI ChatGPT awesomeness, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 4, 2022

Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.