Oct 27Tech Watch #4 — October, 27, 2023The State of AI report is pretty interesting to read (even if long!). Among the major sections: research, industry, but also politics, safety, and some predictions. You’ll find an executive summary in one slide, on slide #8. On #22, emergent capabilities of LLMs is covered and mentions Stanford’s research that talks…Tech Watch3 min readTech Watch3 min read
Oct 20Tech Watch #3 — October, 20, 2023Stop Using char in Java. And Code Points It’s a can of worms, when you start messing with chars, code points, and you’re likely going to get it wrong in the end. …Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Oct 2Client-side consumption of a rate-limited API in JavaIn the literature, you’ll easily find information on how to rate-limit your API. I even talked about Web API rate limitation years ago at a conference, covering the usage of HTTP headers like X-RateLimit-*. Rate limiting is important to help your service cope with too much load, or also to…Java7 min readJava7 min read
Sep 29Tech Watch #1 — Sept 29, 2023Inspired my by super boss Richard Seroter with his regular daily reading list, I decided to record and share my tech watch, every week (or so). I always take notes of interesting articles I read for my own curiosity and to remember them when I need those references later on…Llm3 min readLlm3 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Sep 25Discovering LangChain4J, the Generative AI orchestration library for Java developersAs I started my journey with Generative AI and Large Language Models, I’ve been overwhelmed with the omnipresence of Python. Tons of resources are available with Python front and center. However, I’m a Java developer (with a penchant for Apache Groovy, of course). …Java4 min readJava4 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Jul 6Custom Environment Variables in WorkflowsIn addition to the built-in environment variables available by default in Google Cloud Workflows (like the project ID, the location, the workflow ID, etc.) it’s now possible to define your own custom environment variables! Why is it useful and important? It’s particularly handy when you want to read information that…Gcp Workflows3 min readGcp Workflows3 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Jun 8Creating kids stories with Generative AILast week, I wrote about how to get started with the PaLM API in the Java ecosystem, and particularly, how to overcome the lack of Java client libraries (at least for now) for the PaLM API, and how to properly authenticate. However, what I didn’t explain was what I was…Generative Ai Use Cases5 min readGenerative Ai Use Cases5 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Jan 6Calculating your potential reach on Mastodon with Google Cloud Workflows orchestrating the Mastodon APIsWith the turmoil around Twitter, like many, I’ve decided to look into Mastodon. My friend Geert is running his own Mastodon server, and welcomed me on his instance at: uwyn.net/@glaforge . With Twitter, you can access your analytics to know how your tweets are doing, how many views you’re getting…Gcp Workflows5 min readGcp Workflows5 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Nov 4, 2022Workflows tips’n tricksHere are some general tips and tricks that we found useful as we used Workflows: Avoid hard-coding URLs Since Workflows is all about calling APIs and service URLs, it’s important to have some clean way to handle those URLs. You can hard-code them in your workflow definition, but the problem…Google Cloud Platform5 min readGoogle Cloud Platform5 min read
Published inGoogle Cloud - Community·Oct 24, 2022Building and deploying Java 17 apps on Cloud Run with cloud native buildpacks on TemurinIn this article, let’s revisit the topic of deploying Java apps on Cloud Run. In particular, I’ll deploy a Micronaut app, written with Java 17 (Adoptium’s Temurin), and built with Gradle. With a custom Dockerfile On Cloud Run, you deploy containerised applications, so you have to decide the way you…Micronaut3 min readMicronaut3 min read
