I’ve submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for Flink to be able to fetch remote jars for applications submitted to a session cluster. Discussion thread on lists.apache.or...

Looking at the server request logs for Machine Learning for Kids is a depressing reminder of what it means to run something on the Internet nowadays. I was skimming through the request logs for the M...

I've submitted a Flink Improvement Proposal (FLIP) about adding support for the Flink Kubernetes Operator to run Flink's MiniCluster in a single pod for low-throughput jobs that require isolation. I...

Long called “black boxes,” AI models are increasingly yielding their secret inner workings—even, this playful guide shows, in terms that anyone can understand.

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In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling. I wrote last year about how I introduced Generative AI in Machine Learning for Kid...

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In this post, I want to share a new feature in the generative AI support in Machine Learning for Kids: tool calling. I wrote last year about how I introduced Generative AI in Machine Learning for Kid...

Ever since zero became something for nothing, you'd think we'd solved nothing. Whether we're talking NaN, string.Empty, nullables or database nulls, it turns out that nothi

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I have a first-floor office by a large window. On the outside of the window is a wide ledge. And a few weeks ago, a couple of pigeons started assembling a nest of twigs on the ledge by my desk. A c...

In April, I wrote an outline of my career. That post is already out of date, because I have a new job to add to the list. I'm joining Confluent as a Principal Software Engineer working on Confluent ...

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This has been far too long coming, but finally you can administer WebSphere MQ systems from Windows PowerShell. An extension for WebSphere MQ containing thirty-eight new PowerShell cmdlets is being re...

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In this post, I'll share a demo I gave today to explain some of the processing nodes in the palette of IBM Event Processing. I've found that demonstrations of Event Processing are easier to understan...