Author Archives: lestermartin

unstructured docs in ai (the wild west)

rag ai apps can only be as good as the parsed and chunked data that fuels them – testing, testing, and more testing the outputs of all the various available libraries with the front-end apps is critical

optionality and common sense (why i returned to starburst)

i’m so excited to have returned to starburst and be focused on rebooting the devrel function, not to mention staying active in the trino and iceberg communities — long live the icehouse

iceberg acid transactions with partitions (a behind the scenes perspective)

a port of my prior post taking a deeper look at what happens under the hood of hive with “acid” transactions — this time on iceberg tables with parquet files

the effect of ai on intelligence (behold the idiocracy)

the long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas my advice on ai has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience; i will dispense this advice now, but trust me on the sunscreen

develop, deploy, execute & monitor in one tool (welcome to apache nifi)

for those not familiar with apache nifi, come on a short overview of how this framework rather uniquely spans so many of the phases of the typical software development lifecycle