RAG
Improving Information Retrieval with Knowledge Graphs: Comparing VectorDB RAG vs Graph-Powered RAG on AWS
How Integrating Knowledge Graphs Can Improve Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems
AWS
llm
How We Built an AI Team Roaster and Roasted Ourselves! (Featuring Amazon Bedrock)
Introduction: This Christmas, we tried something new for our ceremony: a roasting party with an AI twist! We called it "Chef Roaster," in keeping with our DataChef theme. The concept was simple—provide AI with some information and roasting ideas, the...
AWS
Aurora DSQL - A NEW boring(?) AWS Serverless Postgres compatible database
Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed database with PostgreSQL compatibility. Serverless and relational databases don't usually mix, but AWS has modernized this traditional classic car(PostgresSQL), with a brand-new interior powered by a Formula 1...
Devops
Leveling up KafkaOps with Conduktor Console
As organizations embrace streaming data, Apache Kafka has emerged as the backbone for low-latency, high-throughput event processing. This distributed streaming platform enables companies to build real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. H...
Cloud
Building maintainable cloud-native applications
Introduction Over the past years, I’ve had the chance to work with many clients on cloud-native applications, both new and legacy. From data pipelines to machine learning models to backend systems, I’ve seen it all—and along the way, I’ve witnessed p...
AWS
Stop burning cash on AWS crawlers
Real-time partition discovery at a fraction of the cost
AWS Glue
Our learnings on AWS Glue Jobs Billing
How AWS Glue can bill Streaming jobs at termination (if you are not careful)
apacheiceberg
Apache Iceberg Compaction
Compact your Iceberg tables using Spark or AWS Athena
AWS
How AWS Budgets Can Prevent Costly Surprises
Or: how to prevent your CFO from turning 50 shades of red
Machine Learning
No Code, All Insight: SageMaker Canvas Connects Data Analysts to Machine Learning
What is No-Code ML? As a data scientist, I was always skeptical of no-code solutions since they usually provide so little flexibility that makes them practically useless or tries to provide too much flexibility that makes their UI/UX impossible to na...
generative ai
Amazon Bedrock: Simplifying Generative AI with AWS for 2023
Introduction Generative AI has seen a surge in interest over the past few years, with a plethora of applications ranging from content creation to complex reasoning tasks. Recognizing the growing demand, AWS has introduced its managed service, Amazon ...
container orchestration
ECS vs. EKS: Choosing the Right AWS Container Orchestration Solution
Introduction In the world of containerized applications, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers two prominent services for orchestrating containers: Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Both have their unique ...