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Billy Newport

Local Gitlab tutorial using docker compose

I’ve been trying to get gitlab running locally on my proxmox server. I first tried kubernetes and helm but could not get that working…

4 min readJun 4, 2024

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Beginnings of a HomeLab

I’m currently building DataSurface and was planning on creating an AWS DataPlatform as the first implementation for it. However, after…

3 min readMay 26, 2024

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GPT-4o, still disappointing

Yup, it demos very well but I signed up my $20 bucks and tried it out and cancelled after 20 minutes and am sticking with Claude Opus. Why?

2 min readMay 18, 2024

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Are Smart Enterprises going slow on AI…

Fast Follower may be the best strategy for enterprises adopting AI. Being first with AI integration might actually be harmful over the…

2 min readApr 30, 2024

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Fixing poor performance using Java with vscode on MacBook

As part of DataSurface, I started writing a Java Spark Job. I added a gradle sub project to the datasurface repository and vscode installed…

3 min readApr 25, 2024

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Apple M4 NPU/GPU Goal posts

The talk has started that Apple will announce the M4 processor at WWDC 2024. It seems Apple is now on a yearly cadence for its processors.

3 min readApr 24, 2024

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M3 Max Refurb MacBook Pros now available

I currently use a MacBook Air M2 15" laptop. For code development, it’s the best laptop I have ever owned. It cost me $2.2k in Feb 2024.

2 min readApr 13, 2024

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The EDGE between LLMs and Enterprise Applications is stabilizing.

The EDGE between LLMs and Enterprises leveraging them has and continues to shift. The EDGE defines the programming surface between the two…

7 min readApr 12, 2024

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Apache Beam and the lack of Apache IceBerg support, why?

While working on the first data jobs for DataSurface, I’m trying to choose which platform to use. I started with Spark but I do like the…

2 min readApr 12, 2024

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Net Ware is the future of software

Yan LeCuns interview with Lex Fridman was very interesting. The context here for me starts with my previous article on LLMs being a very…

3 min readApr 2, 2024

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Billy Newport

Billy Newport

Creator of DataSurface. Ex IBM Distinguished Engineer, Ex Goldman Sachs Managing Director. "Expert" in data warehousing and data platforms in general.

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