Stories by jamesblonde

100M Reads/SEC from Python and a REST API on AWS

Databricks Acquire Tecton

Journey to 100M Requests/SEC on AWS/RonDB. Spoiler: it was the load balancer

Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons from Building Manus

About 700M years ago, the Earth froze over – now we may know why

Ozzie Osbourne Dies

Fusion energy startup claims to have cracked alchemy

Rethinking the Illusion of Thinking

Embedding-Based Retrieval for Airbnb Search

The Small Data Showdown '25: Is It Time to Ditch Spark Yet?

Don't forget what Silicon Valley tried to do

Helsing valued at €12B to become one of Europe's most valuable tech groups

Ireland became the Saudi Arabia of siphoned-off global profits

Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

Denmark gets more serious about digital sovereignty

Lakeflow Designer: No-Code ETL, Powered by the Databricks Intelligence Platform

Agent Bricks: Auto-Optimized Agents Using Your Data

Fallacies of MLOps

Planetary Anomaly Spreading, Traced to Unknown Forces Beneath Earth's Crust

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