API – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: BAML, agentic

By Andrew Fairless on May 27, 2025February 22, 2025

https://thedataquarry.com/posts/baml-and-future-agentic-workflows Why I’m excited about BAML and the future of agentic workflowsPrashanth Rao2025-01-29 “Although there have been new agentic and AI workflow orchestration frameworks coming out seemingly every month latelyContinue readingWhat I Read: BAML, agentic

What I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

By Andrew Fairless on March 12, 2025November 20, 2024

https://jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2024/11/13/incremental-jobs-and-data-quality-are-on-a-collision-course-part-2-the-way-forward Incremental Jobs and Data Quality Are On a Collision Course – Part 2 – The Way ForwardJack VanlightlyNov 13, 2024 “The thing we’re missing right now is that theContinue readingWhat I Read: Incremental Jobs, Data Quality

What I Read: Modal’s web infrastructure

By Andrew Fairless on May 27, 2024March 21, 2024

https://modal.com/blog/serverless-http Lambda on hard mode: Inside Modal’s web infrastructureEric ZhangMarch 14, 2024 “At Modal, we built an HTTP and WebSocket stack on our platform. In other words, your serverless functionsContinue readingWhat I Read: Modal’s web infrastructure

What I Read: Database Disassembly

By Andrew Fairless on March 27, 2024February 5, 2024

https://materializedview.io/p/databases-are-falling-apart Databases Are Falling Apart: Database Disassembly and Its ImplicationsChris RiccominiJan 29, 2024 “Why are engineers taking databases apart and putting them back together, again?”

What I Read: survey LLM tooling

By Andrew Fairless on February 8, 2024February 5, 2024

https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2024/2/1/an-incomplete-and-opinionated-survey-of-llm-tooling/ An (incomplete and opinionated) survey of LLM toolingEric J. Ma1/31/24 7:00 PM “More critical than specifying specific tools, my goal with this blog post is to outline a frameworkContinue readingWhat I Read: survey LLM tooling

What I Read: data integration

By Andrew Fairless on December 14, 2023November 7, 2023

https://kestra.io/blogs/2023-10-11-why-ingestion-will-never-be-solved Why data integration will never be fully solved, and what Fivetran, Airbyte, Singer, dlt and CloudQuery do about itAnna GellerOctober 11 2023 “This post covers how Fivetran, Airbyte, Singer,Continue readingWhat I Read: data integration

What I Read: Data, The Land DevOps Forgot

By Andrew Fairless on November 28, 2023October 5, 2023

Data – The Land DevOps Forgot • Michael Nygard • YOW! 2023GOTO ConferencesSep 30, 2023Michael Nygard – General Manager of Data at Nubank & Author of “Release It!” “We willContinue readingWhat I Read: Data, The Land DevOps Forgot

What I Read: Prompt Engineering

By Andrew Fairless on May 25, 2023May 1, 2023

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-engineering/ Prompt EngineeringLilian WengMarch 15, 2023 “Prompt Engineering, also known as In-Context Prompting, refers to methods for how to communicate with LLM to steer its behavior for desired outcomes withoutContinue readingWhat I Read: Prompt Engineering

What I Read: databases

By Andrew Fairless on May 2, 2023March 30, 2023

https://www.thenile.dev/blog/things-dbs-dont-do Things DBs Don’t Do – But ShouldFebruary 6, 2023Gwen Shapira “Why do I still need to implement this in every project? why doesn’t the DB just take care ofContinue readingWhat I Read: databases

What I Read: Feature Platforms

By Andrew Fairless on March 14, 2023February 4, 2023

https://huyenchip.com//2023/01/08/self-serve-feature-platforms.html Self-serve feature platforms: architectures and APIsChip HuyenJan 8, 2023 “The last few years saw the maturation of a core component of the MLOps stack that has significantly improved theContinue readingWhat I Read: Feature Platforms

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