Planet Ingres

December 10, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - RAG from Scratch

 The "RAG from Scratch" tutorial by Langchain coupled with the "RAG playground" are two great educational resources that will help you kickstart your journey with RAG.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17676-rag-from-scratch.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at December 10, 2024 04:47 PM

November 30, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - Hour Of Code 2024 Is About To Kick Off

 This year the event that aims to provide a coding experience for all school students and anyone else who wants to join in runs between December 9th and 15th and includes new activities. Let's find out all about it!

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17664-hour-of-code-2024-is-about-to-kick-off.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 30, 2024 07:23 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - PlanetScale Gets Into Vector Search

 PlanetScale, the cloud MySQL-compatible database with advanced scaling capabilities, is now upgraded with vector storage and search.

PlanetScale's main selling points include horizontal sharding and non-blocking schema changes. Adding vector capabilities into the mix, makes it an even more robust and flexible database solution.


https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17658-planetscale-gets-into-vector-search.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 30, 2024 07:10 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - The PostgreSQL Extension Repo By Pigsty

 A repository containing any PostgreSQL extension you can imagine for Linux distributions is something that might be valuable if you are trying to save some time.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17674-the-postgresql-extension-repo-by-pigsty.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 30, 2024 11:02 AM

November 28, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - pg_parquet - Postgres To Parquet Interoperability

 pg_parquet is a new extension by Crunchy Data that allows a PostgreSQL instance to work with Parquet files. With pg_duckdb, pg_analytics and pg_mooncake all of which can access Parquet files, is there need for yet another extension?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17652-pgparquet-postgres-to-parquet-interoperability.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 28, 2024 04:24 PM

November 26, 2024

November 23, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - Highlights Of The Europe 2024 PostgreSQL Conference

 This year's premium conference for PostgreSQL took place in Athens, Greece between October 22-25. The nice Athenian weather and cultural aspect aside, the conference was a big hit too.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17638-highlights-of-the-europe-2024-postgresql-conference.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 23, 2024 11:33 AM

November 19, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - OpenAI Library For .NET Exits Beta

 A few months ago the OpenAI .NET library was released as a beta. It has now reached version 2.0.0 and the time has come to leave beta and, with a few amendments enter production readiness.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/89-net/17628-openai-library-for-net-exits-beta.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 19, 2024 04:00 PM

November 18, 2024

November 11, 2024

Nikos Vaggalis - DuckDB And Hydra Partner To Get DuckDB Into PostgreSQL

 The offspring of that partnership is pg_duckdb, an extension that embeds the DuckDB engine into the PostgreSQL database, allowing it to handle analytical workloads.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17611-duckdb-and-hydra-partner-to-get-duckdb-into-postgresql-.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at November 11, 2024 05:47 PM