Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 43, 2024

I cover this week AI's latest, from contextual bandits and Transformer evolution to the best streaming platforms for Microsoft Fabric. Dive in for insights on building LLMs and the future of AI-powered search engines!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 27, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 34, 2024

This week’s blog dives into the why behind a hedge fund’s custom database, explores Microsoft’s latest AI models, and celebrates 5 years of Confluent Cloud connectors. Plus, a recap of my Generative AI talk at the Season of AI event in Cape Town, with Johannesburg up next!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 25, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 18, 2024

Explore this week's top tech highlights, from GitHub's Copilot Workspace to Confluent Cloud's Freight Clusters. Discover the latest advancements in Generative AI and streaming, plus get a glimpse of the upcoming Season of AI event! Don't miss out on the future of technology.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 5, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 29, 2022

Kafka & Terraform, Spark Notebooks & Azure Data Explorer, Niels at Data Platform Summit 2022, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 24, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 25, 2022

Kafka & Azure Functions, Databricks Data Lakehouse & modelling, Microsoft OpenHack, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 26, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 23, 2022

Kafka & scaling of Confluent Cloud clusters, Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, Debezium & Snowflake, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 12, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 22, 2022

Kafka elasticity vs. Confluent Cloud, new Sample Gallery for Azure Data Explorer, ADX & bounding boxes, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 5, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 20, 2022

Kafka & Confluent Cloud with Databricks, streaming analytics with Delta Live tables & Databricks SQL, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 22, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 14, 2022

Kafka & gaming apps, ingest data into Azure Synapse from Confluent Cloud, and other interesting topics!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 10, 2022

Interesting Stuff - Week 3, 2022

Kafka, ksqlDB, Confluent Cloud, real-time OLAP databases, Azure Data Explorer at SQLBits 2022, and other interesting topics.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 23, 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.