Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Xmas, New Year 2024, Week 1 2025

This blog post dives into the most exciting advancements in AI, from the rise of agentic workflows and transformative frameworks to the shrinking of models and plummeting costs. With insights into Proximal Policy Optimization and bold predictions for 2025, it's a snapshot of the trends shaping the future of tech.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, January 6, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 51, 2024

In this week's blog we explore groundbreaking tech advancements, including OpenAI's o3 models, ChatGPT Projects, Kafka's queue support, and Microsoft's AIOpsLab. These innovations are reshaping workflows, enhancing scalability, and advancing AI capabilities. Dive in to discover how they're driving the future of tech!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 22, 2024

Interesting Stuff - Week 32, 2023

This week: Explore Big Data's layers with James Serra's post. GPT-5's potential reshapes AI. Stay updated on streaming trends. Join Niels at Data Saturday Durban for Azure OpenAI insights & top speakers.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 13, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2023

This week: Master the art of prompt engineering. OpenAI's evolution from GPT-1 to GPT-4, with a teaser of GPT-5 Explore RAG-based chatbots. Dive into event-driven serverless apps. Join Niels on data adventures.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, August 7, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 28, 2023

This week: become a detective in Kusto Detective Agency. Never write a README again, instead use GPT4Readability. Machine learning streaming with Kafka, Debezium, and BentoML. Stream processing performance report: Apache Flink and RisingWave. Data Saturday Durban 2023.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, July 16, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 24, 2023

This week I share how generative AI can help with analytics, content creation, and natural language queries, and how to train a machine learning model on a Kafka stream. Furthermore, I look at how to debug Jupyter notebooks in VSCode.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 18, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 22, 2023

This week's blog post covers generative AI for analytics, Microsoft Fabric, and real-time streaming. You will discover how to use natural language queries, Power BI, Kusto, stream processing platforms, and PII detection with machine learning.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, June 4, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 16, 2023

In this week's roundup, I cover some 'cool stuff': Azure Databricks Delta Engine, multi-platform Docker image for Kafka Connect and Kusto Sink. Generative AI for Synthetic Data creation. Using Databricks SQL together with LLMs.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 23, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 14, 2023

This week: **Azure Data Explorer** (ADX) workshop, the third post in the series of building a real-time leaderboard using Kafka and ADX. Also links to building a GPT-powered application and a really interesting intro to reinforcement learning.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, April 9, 2023

Interesting Stuff - Week 12, 2023

This week I link to posts about creating customised chatbots using GPT-4. It is also a link to an interesting post about developing a realtime ticketing booking system.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 26, 2023

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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.