Niels Berglund

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 6 - Architecture and Design of a Custom Import MCP Server

Design a custom Import MCP Server with Claude Code for AI-native data imports. Learn why MCP servers are isolated, architect 7 self-contained tools, and transform CSV hell into conversational workflows. Complete architecture guide.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 5.5 - Schema Refinement: When Real Data Reveals the Truth

Database schema design mistake turned lesson: How uploading real CSV files to Claude Code revealed missing fields and enabled a 45-minute schema refinement migration.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, January 12, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 5 - Database Schema and Natural Language Queries

Transform database development with Claude Code and Postgres MCP Pro. Design schemas, generate test data, and run complex queries—all through conversation.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 4, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 4 - Database Setup and First Conversations

Build production-ready database infrastructure using Claude Code. Learn PostgreSQL setup on Neon, Postgres MCP Pro configuration, and AI-assisted troubleshooting.

Posted by nielsb on Thursday, January 1, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 3 - Architecting an AI-Native System

Stop building dashboards—build AI-native systems. Part 3 shows how Claude Code helps architect an event management system using MCP servers, PostgreSQL, and natural language interfaces.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 28, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2025

Week 48 AI roundup: Open-source pg-aiguide teaches LLMs production PostgreSQL, Claude Opus 4.5 drops to $5/25 per million tokens, deep agent architectures explained.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 30, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 42, 2025

Week 42 tech roundup: Netflix's 5M records/sec distributed graph system, training GPT-2 models for $92, AI-powered COBOL modernization, Claude Haiku 4.5's frontier performance at 1/3 the cost, plus Agent Skills' innovative approach to AI specialization. .NET CONF South Africa Community Edition heads to Durban on Nov 15!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 19, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 41, 2025

Discover Week 41's biggest AI agent breakthroughs: OpenAI's AgentKit platform, Stanford's AgentFlow reinforcement learning, Anthropic's Claude Code plugins, and Jesse Vincent's mind-bending Superpowers system. Plus insights from Data & AI Community Day Durban.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 12, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 40, 2025

Week 40, 2025: Netflix's Write-Ahead Log ensures data reliability at scale, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 dominates coding benchmarks, Armin Ronacher ships 90% AI-generated production code, and GitHub engineers treat Markdown as source code. Explore how experienced developers are delegating implementation to AI while guarding architecture decisions, plus urgent call for lunch sponsors for Data & AI Community Day Durban Oct 11.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 5, 2025

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 2 - IDE Integration and Advanced Features

Learn VS Code integration with Claude Code for AI-assisted development. Includes WSL setup, CLAUDE.md configuration, and building your first API endpoints.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, August 13, 2025

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