Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 27, 2025

Week 27, 2025 discoveries: a fundamental transformation in AI systems; we're witnessing the emergence of truly autonomous agents that think, plan, and execute independently rather than simply responding to human prompts. From Claude Code's 'terminal intelligence' and SPIRAL's breakthrough in game-based reasoning development to Flink Agents' production-ready enterprise infrastructure, these developments converge on a profound insight: intelligence emerges more naturally from environmental challenges that force systematic thinking rather than sophisticated human oversight. We're moving toward AI ecosystems that continuously push their own boundaries through self-generated curricula, marking the dawn of genuinely autonomous AI systems.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 6, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 26, 2025

This week's tech exploration reveals a fundamental shift from simple chatbots to sophisticated AI agents that can collaborate, remember, and reason across time. We're witnessing revolutionary developments like Google's A2A protocol for agent interoperability, SQL-powered architectures, and advanced context engineering that manages AI 'working memory.' As these technologies become production-ready, success depends less on code generation speed and more on the architectural judgment we bring to building truly intelligent systems.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 29, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 03, 2025

This week's blog post explores AI's transformative potential, from intelligent agents and generative AI pitfalls to event-driven architectures powering real-time workflows. Discover how NovaSky's $450 Sky-T1 model is democratizing AI and get a glimpse of the latest innovations showcased at ICE 2025.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 19, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 36, 2024

This week's blog, explores groundbreaking developments in AI, from real-time game simulations with Google DeepMind’s GameNGen to innovative approaches in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using Flink and Kafka. We also look into scalable multi-agent frameworks and clustering techniques that enhance AI's efficiency and performance.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 8, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2024

Explore AI & real-time analytics innovations in this week's roundup! Discover Stanford's RelBench, GitHub Models, & FlinkAI's real-time ML. Plus, a recap of Data & AI Community Day Johannesburg & Generative AI magic!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 4, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 24, 2024

Explore the latest tech developments in this week's blog post, featuring OpenAI's .NET library, Apple integration, and Andrew Ng's AI assistant course. Discover how data streaming is revolutionizing customer loyalty programs and get updates on Data & AI Community Day Durban: Season of AI.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 16, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 12, 2024

In this week's blog we explore the cutting-edge of tech: from the evolution of OLTP databases and AI-driven 'Self Learning GPTs' to Microsoft's AutoDev revolutionizing software development. Plus, get the highlights from Kafka Summit London 2024, where data streaming and Gen AI took center stage.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 24, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 40, 2023

This week: discover the latest in AI/ML with Ray's game-changing compute runtime, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence, and the power of data streaming in critical decision-making. Plus, master Apache Flink with a comprehensive blog series.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 8, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 39, 2023

In this week's blog: highlights from the recent Current 2023 conference. Confluent Cloud-Flink integration. Confluent's new initiative, Data Streaming for AI. Finally, a bit about Data Saturday Cape Town, and get a sneak peek at the upcoming AI/ML & Data Infusion Roadshow Durban event.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 1, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 37 - 38, 2023

Latest news from this we as well as the previous week: explore the Circuit Breaker Pattern. Dive into Distributed Computing with Dapr, revolutionize SQL queries with Azure Open AI. Join Data Saturday Cape Town, September 30, and more.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 24, 2023

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