Geeky Stuff

Posted by | February 21, 2026
Azure Databricks and Spark For Data Engineers

There are a few sections on data engineering in this course that I am interested in. My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e32TWhOzEHuRiYz2ClIks5_PNeI9GKqOAGLV0JwnW6A/edit?usp=sharing

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Posted by | January 3, 2026
Databricks – Master Azure Databricks for Data Engineers

I have a lot of experience with Fabric but not as much with its cousin Databricks. There is a ton of overlap between the two (Spark), but I wanted to...

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Posted by | November 6, 2025
Fast Agent + MCP

I am all-in with MCP, so I want to stay on top of the most recent trends when it comes to using this approach.  I recently became aware of the...

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Posted by | October 24, 2025
DEMO: Using MCP with Copilot and other Chatbots / Apps

I had previously demonstrated the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools.  In this video, I take MCP to Azure.   One of the MCP servers is running in as an...

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Posted by | October 4, 2025
The Complete Agentic AI Engineering Course

I wanted to spend more time on the "big picture" instead of the micro.   After all, I've been building a ton of tools - it was time to spend some...

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Posted by | October 2, 2025
AI Agents With Flowise

I spent some time with flowise a year or two ago, and I (maybe unfairly) discounted it because it did not have the ability to run custom code.  N8N has...

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Posted by | September 26, 2025
Getting Started with DSPy

In the day job, I have seen a surprising uptick in the number of OCR-type projects that are coming to us.   I had been using document intelligence to mine the...

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Posted by | September 13, 2025
DEMO: MLOps using MLFlow

I made this demo earlier in the year while I was making an MLOps pipeline for a client.   I thought it would be fun to automate my movie review recommender...

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Posted by | September 12, 2025
Course: The AI Agents, Automation and Agentic Workflows Guide Part 1

I've been using agents and tools for a while now, but I really haven't gotten into advanced scenarios that would require a workflow. Course: https://netrix.udemy.com/course/ai-agents-part-1/learn/lecture/51336861#overview Course Repo: My notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pv2xTE9eEXLA_YVA-1A4kX44ttvzZ_Hn9EcGa1-GuO4/edit?usp=sharing

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Posted by | September 1, 2025
Course: AI Engineer Roadmap

I have a few resources that I follow in order to stay up on the latest advancements in AI.  I have been following Zazencodes for a while, and I have...

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