Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 9, 2023

This weekly roundup covers prompt engineering for Generative AI. I also cover stream processing vs real-time OLAP DBs; using Kafka and other open-source technologies to build AWS data lakes. To finish off: Spark Structured Streaming and REST APIs.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 5, 2023

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 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 - 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 37, 2022

Kafka, ksqlDB and iGaming, date-time in ADX, Kusto detective agency, Spark & MLLib, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 18, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 36, 2022

Kafka KStreams & .NET, cool reinforcement learning, Kusto emulator, Niels at DPS 2022, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 11, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 24, 2022

Kafka & Confluent Cloud incidents, performant software, tools 4 SQL Server, Azure Data Explorer features, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 19, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 22, 2021

Kafka, Databricks Machine Learning, Microsoft & GPT-3, Data Platform Summit 2021, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 30, 2021

Interesting Stuff - Week 31

Kafka (of course), Flink, Databricks Delta, RxSqlServerData and other interesting topics..

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 5, 2018

Interesting Stuff - Week 13

dataArtisans dA Platform is released, patterns for Big Data in Azure, a great video series about he Microsoft Artificial Intelligence suite, and other cool stuff!

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, March 31, 2018

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