All Data and AI Weekly #178 - 24-Feb-2025

#178 - 24-Feb-2025

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Post SKO

We had a great week at SKO for Snowflake. Lots of amazing things are coming this year!

NiFi + AI + AI Data Cloud + Iceberg.

Cool Stuff of the week

?? https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/deleatanda_while-the-world-was-busy-with-the-launch-activity-7298724395668111360-gfkZ/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAAE8G0BI4WdoF-RuQ779lO5QtQPBBvLWCM

?? Apache NiFi 2.2! https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-Version2.2.0

?? https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/three-things-i-learned-from-customer-conversations-davos-ramaswamy-iklcc/

?? https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description

?? https://medium.com/snowflake/streaming-data-to-snowflake-with-redpanda-connect-03c4c02dfd37

?? https://medium.com/@scottteal/tutorial-how-to-integrate-trino-and-snowflakes-service-for-apache-polaris-49ac5e25b389

?? https://cloudyard.in/2025/01/schema-evolution-with-case-sensitivity-handling-in-snowflake/

?? https://medium.com/@sahil_singla/how-to-not-run-a-12-000-query-on-snowflake-b80c456b790c

?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZdVSISXdqM&list=PLqRma1oIkcWgN9agdJ0DQhX2gPf8K2ynk

?? https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/sfguide-getting-started-with-cortex-agents

?? https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt

?? https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/snowflake-computing_1-million-strong-from-sharing-insights-activity-7295855409779593216-2QbZ/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

?? https://medium.com/snowflake/transform-your-addresses-in-snowflake-with-the-precisely-geo-addressing-native-app-9d23e891a95a

?? https://github.com/lewj85/jessesort

?? https://github.com/DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer

?? https://github.com/Goldziher/kreuzberg

?? If you are in Manhattan, check this cafe out. super cool. https://www.os-nyc.com/

?? Decentralized AI Agent Alliance https://medium.com/quantum-economics/why-we-started-the-decentralized-ai-agent-alliance-6eb0938d7bc5

?? RedPanda Connect to Snowflake is 2X faster. https://www.redpanda.com/blog/fast-simple-data-ingestion-snowflake-connector

New Models

?? Snowflake Arctic Instruct

?? Deepseek

?? https://github.com/plexe-ai/smolmodels

Upcoming

????? Data for Breakfast Demo: Real-Time Business Intelligence with Snowflake ?????

• https://www.snowflake.com/events/data-for-breakfast/new-york/
• https://www.snowflake.com/events/data-for-breakfast/princeton/

?? 03 March 2025 - Philadelphia -

https://sites.google.com/servicenow.com/good-data-2025/invited-speakers

?? March 6 2025 - Virtual - Conf42 Cloud Native https://www.conf42.com/Cloud_Native_2025_Tim_Spann_smart_cities_datadriven_automation

https://sessionize.com/tspann

https://github.com/timothyspann

Recent Tim Stuff

?? Video IoT ?? Dec 19: Conf42 IoT 2024: Virtual: https://www.conf42.com/Internet_of_Things_IoT_2024_Tim_Spann_opensource_build ?? Unstructured Data and LLM: What, Why and How with Timothy Spann ?? Conf42 IoT Building IoT ?? XTremePython 2024 - LLM ?? PyData NYC ?? Advanced RAG Techniques @ All Things Open Raleigh 2024 ?? Building Real Time LLM Models ?? Big Data Conference EU Talk on Open Source Real-Time AI ?? CloudX AI Real-Time

Apps, Demos, Examples, Models, Notebooks and Projects

?? RAG 101 ?? AIM Ghosts ?? Multimodal RAG is not Scary Ghosts ??? Advanced RAG Techniques

CODE + COMMUNITY

? 2020-2025 Tim Spann https://www.youtube.com/@FLaNK-Stack (AI + Vectors + LLM + Streaming + IoT)