Planet Ingres

 A few months ago the OpenAI .NET library was released as a beta. It has now reached version 2.0.0 and the time has come to leave beta and, with a few amendments enter production readiness.

 Introducing a GitHub repository full of hot tips and instructions on how to build the perfect prompt presented in a collection of Jupiter Notebooks.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17627-prompt-engineering-techniques-to-make-you-an-expert.html

 The offspring of that partnership is pg_duckdb, an extension that embeds the DuckDB engine into the PostgreSQL database, allowing it to handle analytical workloads.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17611-duckdb-and-hydra-partner-to-get-duckdb-into-postgresql-.html

 Ursina is a new open source game engine in which you can code any type of game in Python, be it 2-D, 3-D, an application, a visualization, you name it.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/144-graphics-and-games/17606-ursina-a-game-engine-powered-by-python.html

 Sequin is a tool for capturing changes and streaming data out of your Postgres database, guaranteeing exactly once processing. What does that mean?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17589-sequin-open-source-message-stream-built-on-postgres.html#google_vignette

 Inject middleware functionality into NGINX with the expressive power of Javascript. NGINX JavaScript or NJS for short is a dynamic module under which you can use scripting for hooking into the NGINX execution model.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/87-web-development/17580-extend-nginx-with-the-new-javascript-module.html#google_vignette

 Amongst the many Java related conferences, this one flew under the radar. A real shame because it had many great sessions.

 A freely available set of workshops and talks on the essentials of LLMs, taught by practitioners. The topics include Evals, Retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG), Fine-tuning etc

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17565-mastering-llms-with-experts.html

 Prisma Markdown is a new tool that takes the pain out of drawing entity relationship diagrams. An essential help if your design is database driven rather than code driven.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17561-effortless-erd-design-with-prisma-markdown.html

 Yes, they can coexist thanks to CloudNativePG, the PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes. Furthermore, if you want to try before you buy you can, thanks to the new learning environment, CNPG Playground.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17555-postgres-and-kubernetes-together-in-harmony.html