Niels Berglund

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.

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

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.

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

Kafka Stream Governance, VSCode & Python, timeseries in ADX, and other interesting topics.