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The Art of Validating Non-deterministic AI Responses
The Art of Validating Non-deterministic AI Responses
Navigating the uncharted waters of large language model (LLM) testing
Swetha Veluri
Aug 27
Micro-Frontends: State of the Craft
Micro-Frontends: State of the Craft
Can we apply modular, scalable microservice patterns to the front end? Sure, why not?
Brian Sokol
Jun 18
Managing Keys with the Web Cryptography API
Managing Keys with the Web Cryptography API
Understanding key types and the basics of creation, extraction, and storage
Nieky Allen
Apr 22
Seeing Is Solving: How Design Deliverables Shape Better Products
Seeing Is Solving: How Design Deliverables Shape Better Products
Leveraging the output of designers to enable better collaboration, enhance solutions, and support alignment between teams and stakeholders
Luis Hermosilla
Jan 23
Revolutionizing Reality Capture with NVIDIA Instant NGP
Revolutionizing Reality Capture with NVIDIA Instant NGP
Unmatched performance starts with just a simple camera.
Mike Wisniewski
Jun 16, 2023
Is It Time to Get an AI Assist on Your Coding?
Is It Time to Get an AI Assist on Your Coding?
Short answer: That depends. Long answer: Let’s dig in!
Joshua Gruber
Apr 13, 2023
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Quantum Computing: It’s Early, but There Are Valuable Things to Do Today
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Gaining a basic a understanding of quantum computing and where it shines can help create a path to value right now.
Carl Anderson
Jul 25
Beyond Model Code: Essential Principles for Productionizing ML Models
Beyond Model Code: Essential Principles for Productionizing ML Models
Transforming ML models into robust and efficient production systems
Kemalcan Jimmerson
Jul 10
The Developer Experience for Platform Engineers
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Aligning software and platform engineering for enhanced DevEx
Sonia Newing
Jun 25
Making Room for Zero-ETL in Your Data Engineering Toolbelt
Making Room for Zero-ETL in Your Data Engineering Toolbelt
The benefits of automating data pipeline maintenance
Rob Koch
Jun 11
The Secret to Success in Large-Scale Data Engineering Projects
The Secret to Success in Large-Scale Data Engineering Projects
Automation in Databricks with Databricks Asset Bundles
Rafael Escoto
Jun 6
4 Tips for Data Quality Validations with Pytest and PySpark
4 Tips for Data Quality Validations with Pytest and PySpark
Testing transformed data to yield a high-quality and dependable result
Taylor Wagner
Jun 3
Getting started with PySpark, Pytest, and Amazon S3
Getting started with PySpark, Pytest, and Amazon S3
A step-by-step guide for Data Quality Engineers
Likitha Lokesh
May 28
Generative AI Prompt Engineering: A Balancing Act
Generative AI Prompt Engineering: A Balancing Act
How to improve your prompts for higher-quality outputs
Lexxi Reddington
May 21
How to Architect Maintainable Journey Tests
How to Architect Maintainable Journey Tests
Ensure your users’ workflows are always functional
Alexa De La Garza
May 17
RAG for Quality Engineers
RAG for Quality Engineers
Building RAG is easy, building quality RAG is hard
Blake Norrish
Mar 28
Feeding AI Models with Slack Data
Feeding AI Models with Slack Data
How to build connections on teams by marrying Slack and generative AI
Taylor Wagner
Mar 28
Conducting an Effective Knowledge Transfer Before Roll-off
Conducting an Effective Knowledge Transfer Before Roll-off
Why is it so important?
Yosef Falsafi
Mar 22
Keeping the Human in the Loop
Keeping the Human in the Loop
People, process, technology: how to harness — and not get burned by — the IT fire triangle
Anne Nasato
Mar 20
The When and How of Load and Stress Testing
The When and How of Load and Stress Testing
From feasibility assessment to discovery: An engineer’s cheat sheet
Ambhrin Dhar
Mar 8
Know Your Audience
Know Your Audience
Tips for effectively delivering your message to your audience
Jeff Averill
Feb 27
(Technical) Ways of Working
(Technical) Ways of Working
Less talked about (Technical) Ways of Working for a smoother project delivery.
Asma S. Gulbaz
Nov 29, 2023
Designing Valuable Products for the Future with DesignOps
Designing Valuable Products for the Future with DesignOps
The evolution and continuing relevance of design operations
Luis Hermosilla
Nov 20, 2023
DevSecOps in Effect at the Web Application Firewall
DevSecOps in Effect at the Web Application Firewall
Look at DevSecOps in practice and generate dynamic AWS WAF rules at deploy time from REST API application paths in Amazon API Gateway
Andrew Eells
Nov 1, 2023
How to Write Documentation That People Will Actually Read and Use
How to Write Documentation That People Will Actually Read and Use
Understanding for whom you’re writing, how to connect ideas & why you are writing are critical to ensuring your documentation is worthwhile
Hal Deranek
Oct 23, 2023
Elevating Conversational AI with Dynamic Data and APIs via OpenAI Function Calling
Elevating Conversational AI with Dynamic Data and APIs via OpenAI Function Calling
Unlocking the Power of RAG Approach in Conversational AI: Enhancing Chatbot Responses with Dynamic Function Calling.
dl_heron
Oct 11, 2023
iOS 16: How ARKit and RealityKit Help Measure Objects Accurately
iOS 16: How ARKit and RealityKit Help Measure Objects Accurately
Building an augmented reality (AR) measurement app
Shawn Sun
Sep 14, 2023
SNS + SQS: A match made in the clouds
SNS + SQS: A match made in the clouds
Explore how to use SNS and SQS to create Event Driven Architectures in AWS
Diego Garber
Sep 7, 2023
Techniques for Improving Your Front-end App’s Performance
Techniques for Improving Your Front-end App’s Performance
A journey of triaging page load issues and identifying tangible steps to resolve them
Milan Dhar
Sep 1, 2023
The Swiss Cheese Model for Quality Engineering
The Swiss Cheese Model for Quality Engineering
Having the time-honoured ‘Test Pyramid’ phenomenon drive a quality strategy alone isn’t good enough anymore. Here’s a more holistic thought…
Imran Qureshi
Aug 29, 2023
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