Tag: database

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarino’s SNAP evals Feedly Summary: I used part three (here’s parts one and two) of Dave Guarino’s series on evaluating how well LLMs can answer questions about SNAP (aka food stamps) as an excuse to explore Promptfoo, an LLM eval tool. SNAP (Supplemental…

  • Cloud Blog: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/migrating-from-mysql-to-spanner-is-easier-now/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Migrating your apps from MySQL to Spanner just got easier Feedly Summary: Yesterday’s databases aren‘t sufficient for tomorrow’s applications, which need to deliver dynamic, AI-driven experiences at unpredictable scale and with zero downtime. To help, at Google Cloud Next 25, we announced new functionality, improved performance, and migration…

  • The Register: Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/database_vector_search/ Source: The Register Title: Vector search is the new black for enterprise databases Feedly Summary: Software slingers from Redis to Teradata are bolting on smarts to stay relevant in GenAI era About two years ago, popular cache database Redis was among a wave of vendors that added vector search capabilities to their…

  • Cloud Blog: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced incredible ways for enterprises to build multi-agent ecosystems with Vertex AI and Google Cloud Databases – including better ways for agents to communicate with each other using Agent2Agent…

  • Cloud Blog: Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/google-global-network-technology-deep-dive/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network Feedly Summary: The unprecedented growth and unique challenges of AI applications are driving fundamental architectural changes to Google’s next-generation global network.  The AI era brings an explosive surge in demand for network capacity, with novel traffic patterns characteristic of…

  • Cloud Blog: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/google-cloud-database-and-langchain-integrations-support-go-java-and-javascript/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Google Cloud Database and LangChain integrations now support Go, Java, and JavaScript Feedly Summary: Last year, Google Cloud and LangChain announced integrations that give generative AI developers access to a suite of LangChain Python packages. This allowed application developers to leverage Google Cloud’s database portfolio in their gen…

  • AWS News Blog: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-graviton4-based-instances-with-nvme-ssd-storage/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New Amazon EC2 Graviton4-based instances with NVMe SSD storage Feedly Summary: AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…