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Elephant in the Room, Episode 1: Working with Long Form Text in PostgreSQL and Django

Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven. In this new live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few truly understand. Episode 1: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Jeff Triplett, Partner & Engineer at REVSYS and long-time Django community leader, as they explore how developers can harness PostgreSQL’s native text-search capabilities to build faster, smarter, and more efficient applications.

How to monitor Amazon Bedrock AgentCore AI agent infrastructure in Grafana Cloud

Modern AI agents are now highly advanced, frequently becoming essential components of engineering workflows and deployment pipelines. However, operating these systems often feels like trying to navigate a ship through a dense fog. When an agent errors, slows down, or consumes excessive resources, engineers find themselves adrift, lacking the navigational charts needed to diagnose the problem. The absence of deep insight makes debugging, performance tuning, and cost management unnecessarily difficult.

Welcome to the Next Frontier: AI on Kubernetes

Last week’s KubeCon Atlanta made one thing abundantly clear, Kubernetes is quickly becoming the de facto platform for AI workloads – with the event lineup chock full of talks, workshops, and even co-located events dedicated to AI, machine learning and running data on Kubernetes natively – with approximately 50 (!) sessions in total focused on AI, ML, LLM, and GenAI topics.. What was until now mostly PoCs and aspirational is now truly delivering in production.

Why Indoor Air Quality Declines Quickly When Mold Goes Untreated

Mold growth inside a home is more than an unpleasant sight, it can dramatically reduce indoor air quality in a surprisingly short amount of time. When mold spores multiply, they spread through the air and settle into various areas of the house, creating an environment that becomes increasingly difficult to live in comfortably. As mold thrives in warm, damp, and poorly ventilated spaces, even a small patch can spread rapidly if ignored. Understanding how and why air quality declines helps homeowners act early, protect their health, and prevent serious structural problems.

Get Kafka-Nated Episode 3

Join us for Episode 3 of Get Kafka-Nated, where host Hugh Evans sits down with Greg Harris, Staff Software Engineer and the driving force behind KIP-1150, to explore the future of cloud-native Apache Kafka. In this episode, we dive into diskless Kafka — a bold reimagining of Kafka’s architecture that moves data from broker disks to object storage. Greg explains the technical challenges, the operational benefits, and the broader implications for Kafka users.

AI Synergy: Using GPT, LLaMA, and PaLM Models

The public release of GPT in 2023 ushered in a new era of Generative AI applications in business. ChatGPT by OpenAI, LLaMA by Meta AI, PaLM by Google AI, and other text generation models are now widely utilized for both personal and professional applications. The Generative AI market is expected to reach $66.62 billion by 2024, with an annual growth rate of 20.80%, leading to a market volume of $207.00 billion by 2030.

The Technological Architecture Behind ServiceOrca: Building a Modern, Scalable Service Marketplace

As digital marketplaces mature, the strongest platforms increasingly distinguish themselves not just through marketing or user interfaces, but through the depth and precision of their underlying technology. ServiceOrca.com, a global free-to-list service marketplace, has been gaining attention for its engineering-driven approach to building a scalable, AI-enhanced ecosystem for both local and remotely delivered services.

The Heart of Modern Manufacturing: How an ERP System Integrates All Processes

Modern manufacturing is a complex mechanism consisting of many components. It is extremely difficult to synchronize the work of dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of departments. Not so long ago, the only tool available was endless paperwork, stacks of reports, and a huge number of employees ready to perform manual labor.