I asked ChatGPT to make an image of a completely full glass of wine. It did

OpenAI released the latest–and massively upgraded–version of ChatGPT’s image generation engine on Tuesday, and the internet was soon oohing and aahing, giddily asking the AI to make everything from memes in the style of South Park to images of Barbie dolls in the Oval Office. But one feat of ChatGPT’s new GPT-4o image generation model left even jaded AI watchers in...
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK

Model context protocol (MCP) The
Model context protocol (aka MCP) is a way to provide tools and context to the LLM. From the MCP docs: MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals...
Gemma3 Function Calling

When using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model such as Gemma, you may want to use the model to operate programming interfaces in order to complete tasks or answer questions. Instructing a model by defining a programming interface and then making a request that uses that interface is called function calling. Important: A Gemma model cannot execute code on its own. When you generate code with...
Fast columnar JSON decoding with arrow-rs

My day job is working on the Arroyo stream processing engine, which executes complex, stateful queries over high-scale streams of events. Computing things like windowed aggregates, stream joins, and incrementally-computed SQL involves, as you might imagine, a lot of sophisticated algorithms and systems. Doing it much faster than existing systems like Apache Flink took careful performance engineering at every level of the stack. But…I'm going to let...
DuckDB: Development Roadmap

The DuckDB project is governed by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation. The Foundation and DuckDB Labs are not funded by external investors (e.g., venture capital). Instead, the Foundation is funded by contributions from its members, while DuckDB Labs' revenue is based on commercial support and feature prioritization services. This section lists the features that the DuckDB team plans to work on in the coming year. Documentation...
Not All Analytics Are Equal: Benchmarking Databases for Real-Time Analytics Applications

Choosing the right database for analytics is hard. With many options available, each is optimized for different use cases.Some databases are built for real-time analytics in customer-facing applications, where low-latency queries and high-ingest performance are essential. Others are designed for internal BI and reporting and optimized for large-scale aggregations and batch processing. Some databases are general-purpose, handling both transactions and...

Category: SOA Patterns

SOA patterns added to Intel’s recommended reading list

SOA patterns added to Intel’s recommended reading list

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on July 23, 2013

Last month I received a nice letter from Intel saying that my SOA patterns book was added to their list of recommended reading they curate.…

SOA Patterns is “deal of the day” on Manning’s site (Apr. 14th)

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on April 13, 2013

I just got a notice from Manning that my book SOA patterns will be featured as “deal of the day” on Apr 14th – that…

The Saga pattern and that architecture vs. design thing

The Saga pattern and that architecture vs. design thing

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on January 24, 2013

It has been few months since SOA Patterns was published and so far the book sold somewhere between 2K-3K copies which I guess is not…

SOA & Big Data

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on October 11, 2012

I gave a presentation of SOA and big data in IGTCloud forum SOA & Big Data from Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz Updated to embed slideshare

SOA patterns (finally) published

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on August 28, 2012

My book on Service Oriented Architecture patterns is finally published. You can get the ebook on manning’s site. The printed version will be available Sept…