Hasura supergraph charts course for GraphQL data & API integration
Hasura has announced the third version (aka V3) of its GraphQL platform. Key developments in Hasura V3 are promised to enable a ‘modern approach’ to data and API integration, a claim meant to be validated by the ability to allow API consumers to flexibly compose data on demand – across any nu... Read more
Supersimple drives ‘complex’ AI-native data analytics
Tallinn-headquartered AI-native data analytics platform company Supersimple is promising its platform will enable any user to explore data and answer complex questions, regardless of technical expertise. The company says its platform exists because data analytics tools need reinvention for the age ... Read more
The AI shift from prompt engineering to flow engineering
The IT industry is busy working out how to develop, program with and exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our enterprise applications. Key among the techniques being used to create, coalesce and connect AI is prompt engineering i.e. the process of designing detailed input formats (characters, wo... Read more
InfluxData & AWS clock in for time-series developer analytics
Data is speeding up. This reality means that our systems and applications are now moving towards an increasing amount of real-time data processing, many using data streaming solutions and time-series database offerings. News in this space this month sees time-series platform company InfluxDB, annou... Read more
In AI development, never lose your RAG
AI is smart, but it can be smarter in a cleaner and more controlled way via the use of RAG. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has quickly become something of a super vitamin shot for generative AI models that seek to gain some additional data connection to external (often outwardly ratified and ... Read more
How do you roll out GenAI in enterprise environments?
IBM claims that watsonx provides the building blocks for successfully deploying Generative AI initiatives in enterprise environments. What are these building blocks and why is IBM so confident that they can do this better than others in the market? We recently attended the first edition of IBM Tech... Read more
Dynatrace widens lens on data observability
Dynatrace is a unified observability and security platform company with AI-powered capabilities for data analytics and automation. The company says it has now pledged to match the cadence of modern business information channels. As a branded product and service, Dynatrace Data Observability is desi... Read more
How to build smarter AI chatbots
We need smarter and better chatbots. As we humans now ‘talk’ to our computers via an increasing number of chatbot services, the need for conversational style ‘communication’ in natural language will increasingly become a key interaction channel between humans and machines. If we accept this... Read more
Swimm makes splash with ‘contextualised’ software coding assistant
As developers start to embrace generative AI coding tools, we need to know how robust they are. We also need to know how capable they are of showing relevant links to existing software code bases and to real world business logic. Describing its software as a generative-AI powered coding assistant f... Read more
How to guard against misbehaving AI LLMs
The new breed of generative AI of course makes extensive use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to draw its power and ‘understanding’ of the world from. But if we are to build safe and functional AI, we need to understand more about the infrastructural form of LLMs. Beneath their ingenious capacit... Read more
Zoho: Navigating from AI to Z
We know that AI models are changing at breakneck speed as this emerging technology continues to develop. Developers have a crucial role to play in organisations to help them navigate this new landscape - but how do they navigate around this new realm when so many of the tools and skills appear to b... Read more
Pega details ‘model mechanics’ for real world AI
There’s a lot of AI talk. We now exist in a technology industry obsessed with the development, implementation and extension of predictive, reactive, generative and (insert next big AI trend here) intelligence functions. So much is this the case that we seem to have forgotten about core basics suc... Read more
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