Interesting Stuff - Week 49, 2022
Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth that has to do with things that interest me:AI/data sciencedata in generaldata architecturestreamingdistributed computingSQL...
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Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth that has to do with things that interest me:AI/data sciencedata in generaldata architecturestreamingdistributed computingSQL...
View ArticleRevolutionizing My Blog: Why I Changed my Hugo Theme
Revolutionizing in the title of this post may be a bit strong, but I guess that is what you get when you ask ChatGPT to write you a “catchy” blog post title 😄. Anyway, if you have followed my blog for...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - XMas, New Year 2022, Week 1 2023
This is the “roundup” of the posts that have been most interesting to me over the Christmas, New Year period 2022, and week 1 2023. Oh, and welcome to 2023!This post consists of a mixed bag: We look at...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 2, 2023
This weeks roundup includes links to articles and videos about using Azure OpenAI and deploying ML models with FastAPI and Azure, as well as a post about Change Data Capture and its patterns.I also...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 3, 2023
So, what do we have for Week 3, 2023?A mixed bag: cool visualizations in Azure Data Explorer using Plotly. Interesting about the benefits and challenges of distributed computing. Comparison of...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 4, 2023
If you see this post today, you may wonder why I have published on a Saturday instead of, as usual, on a Sunday. Well, I am flying out to Barcelona a bit later today and will be on a plane for most of...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 5, 2023
In this week’s roundup, you’ll read about optimized locking in Azure SQL (very cool) and why Flink is so popular. Related to Flink, we also look at operational use cases for Flink, as well as some...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 6, 2023
I came home from London a couple of days ago, and I can’t tell you how good it is to be back home!Among other things, what caught my eye for this week’s roundup was that Azure now offers a managed load...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 7, 2023
Reading through this post, I realize that this is probably the first post where I have yet to mention Kafka; wow!So this week, I link to posts about the new v2 Python programming model for Azure...
View ArticleDevelop a Real-Time Leaderboard Using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer - Prelude
This blog post series is inspired by my conference talk Analyze Billions of Rows of Data in Real-Time Using Azure Data Explorer.In the presentation, I talk about “user-facing” analytics. Historically...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 8, 2023
As opposed to last week with no Kafka related “stuff”, this week there is a fair chunk. So, in this roundup you get a link to Linix containers on Apple Silicone. A deep dive into Microsoft LMOps,...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 9, 2023
This week it is mostly streaming related “stuff” that has caught my eye. Regardless of that, we start with some Generative AI - or rather prompt engineering, where I link to a post around different...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 10, 2023
This week only streaming topics.You see an excellent introduction to Apache Flink, followed by more Flink. In this case, it is related to Confluent’s acquisition of Immerok and how this has the...
View ArticleDevelop a Real-Time Leaderboard Using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer - I
This is the second post in a series about using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to develop a real-time leaderboard for online gaming. Hmm, the second post you say - why is it that the post title...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 11, 2023
Even though GPT-4 was just released I am quite proud that I am not linking to anything GPT-4 specific. ChatGPT and OpenAI, yes - but not GPT-4.So what happened the week just gone? Some things to “wet...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 12, 2023
Not so much to cover this week. What you find in this post is a couple of links to posts about building customised chatbots based on GPT-4. There is also an interesting link to how to use Kafka and...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 13, 2023
Some interesting stuff this week: a “cool” post about Polar bears vs Pandas, no doubt who’ll win. Read about how to ingest data into Azure Data Explorer - very interesting. On the streaming side really...
View ArticleDevelop a Real-Time Leaderboard Using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer - II
Don’t be fooled by the " - II" in the title, as this is the third post in the series about using Kafka and Azure Data Explorer (ADX) to develop a real-time leaderboard for online gaming. This (" - II")...
View ArticleInteresting Stuff - Week 14, 2023
This week’s exciting stuff: cool video from an Azure Data Explorer (ADX) workshop. Speaking of ADX, I published my third post in the series of building a real-time leaderboard using Kafka and ADX. On...
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