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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 7d

The 'Ouroboros problem' of AI evaluation that Databricks Judge Builder might just solve...with a little help from humans (yay humans!)

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 7d

Snowflake has a lot of news out today at its BUILD conference..but it is one piece of news in particular that I think will make all the difference.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 8d

I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source dlt library.
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Enterprise data engineering revolution: How dltHub's Python open-source platform transforms data pipeline creation for agentic AI | Sean M. Kerner

I personally have a love/hate relationship with SQL - but most AI devs don't want any such thing..they just want to use Python. That's where dltHub comes in as the lead backer behind the open-source d...

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 12d

I've had the good fortune to connect with David Belson on internet topics a bunch over the years. At Cloudflare he's now been working on some new insights on Top Level Domains and there are more than few surprises in the findings...

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What's the most malicious TLD? Cloudflare reveals surprising risks, usage patterns

Cloudflare identifies high-risk top-level domains, with .motorcycles ranking No. 1 among the most abused TLDs.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 12d

I've been a believer in streaming data for a long time...but so much of the AI-data conversation has been about static data. That's now changing and real-time data streaming that bakes in Apache Kafka and Apache Flink from Confluent is bringing the context.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 12d

GitHub wants to be the control point for agentic AI
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 12d

There is still some hesitation about AI - but Intuit is figuring out how to work the way its users want to work.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 19d

AI is supposed to give humans less work and make things easier...right? Maybe not according to some new research from Snowflake that 77% say their data engineering teams' workloads are getting heavier, not lighter.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 22d

Usually each new Wi-Fi spec offers the promise of more speed..but speed isn't the only thing that users need. Wi-Fi 8 could be the most important networking spec in a generation. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4073...

Wi-Fi 8 is coming and it's going to make AI a lot faster

Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes consistent performance under challenging conditions and introduces dynamic spectrum management and hardware-accelerated telemetry designed for AI workloads at the network edge.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · 25d

One of the big missing links in the AI ecosystem has been the availability of a large high-quality open-source multimodal dataset. That changes today with the debut of the EMM-1 dataset
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Oct 10

Enterprises expanding AI deployments are hitting an invisible performance wall. The culprit? Static speculators that can't keep up with shifting workloads. The answer would be a new type of self-adaptive system.
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Oct 1

15 yrs later...OpenStack continues to improve
->Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo. www.networkworld.com/article/4066... @networkworld.bsky.social

OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb

Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Oct 1

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Oct 1

Large enterprises aren’t the only targets of cybercriminals....
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Netgear deepens SASE integration

Netgear is embedding firewall software gained in its acquisition of Exium into its router platform to eliminate the need for separate firewall appliances or virtual machines at branch locations.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 25

New research released today from Databricks shows how its GEPA (Generative Evolutionary Prompt Adaptation) technique improves prompt optimization by an order of magnitude.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 23

There's more than one Linux certification for IT pros to consider... @networkworld.bsky.social
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9 Linux certifications to boost your career

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent. Vendor-neutral certifications emphasize core Linux principles applicable across...

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 19

“Networking has gone through several inflection points,” Barun Kar CEO of Upscale told @networkworld.bsky.social . “We feel there is an inflection point happening right now as we speak, driven by AI..."

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Upscale emerges from stealth with $100 million seed and plans to democratize AI networking

Upscale aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI networking infrastructure with an open solution that builds on SONiC and other standards-based initiatives.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 16

Microsoft Fabric is now in use by 80% of the Fortune 500 and now it's getting even more powerful with graph database tech.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 16

Sure you can do QA for AI code inside of AI tools, but do you trust it? There are a lot of tools for doing AI code review, including CodeRabbit. How do you choose and figure out what's best?
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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 10

I set up my first Oracle database in the late 1980's and here we are in 2025 and the company today is more relevant than ever before and AI is a big reason.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Airflow isn't the only open-source data orchestration platform...Kestra 1.0 just dropped and it's taking a declarative approach at changing enterprise data workflows.

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · Sep 4

My favorite #Linux distro just got even better with Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' - what's new zdnet.com/article/my-f... via @zdnet.bsky.social and @sjvn.bsky.social

The new @linuxmint.bsky.social
can't boast much in the way of new features, but it does come with many modest, attractive improvements.

My favorite Linux distro just got even better with Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' - what's new

The new Linux Mint desktop release doesn't come with many flashy new features, but it remains attractive, easy to use, and far more secure than Windows.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Space is the 'final' frontier for data centers...

“Through the years, a limiting resource for the research community on the space station was the transfer of data and near real-time data analysis..."
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ISS Data Center Launch Tests Edge Computing in Space

Axiom Space and Red Hat’s orbital data center prototype has reached the ISS, testing whether terrestrial computing can function in space.

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Sean Michael Kerner @techjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 29

Lots to like for networking teams in Kubernetes 1.34

“What keeps Kubernetes moving isn’t the perfect winds, but the will of our sailors who adjust the sails, man the helm, chart the courses and keep the ship steady..” @networkworld.bsky.social
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Kubernetes v1.34 brings networking refinements for cloud-native infrastructure

A key enhancement in Kubernetes 1.34 provides network operators with fine-grained control over traffic routing decisions within clusters.

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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

A Joyous Skynet Day, my AI colleagues.

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