Sustainability
Many of us love a good podcast so I reached out to our project team to see what they were listening to in the tech and sustainability space. Here are their recommendations
Artificial Intelligence
We’ve undertaken experiments to explore the impact of GenAI tools on developer productivity, revealing a 37% improvement in productivity (speed), however, this result is a misrepresentation of what it means to be productive as a developer. This article delves more deeply, beyond punchy metrics, to explore the overall experience of working with these entirely new tools. We discuss where these tools are most effective, the challenge of quality code, the learning curve and much more.
Artificial Intelligence
Developing LLM applications using Test-Driven Development principles can be expensive due to the incurred cost of every usage. In this post, we discussed how our attempt to tackle the inherit non-deterministic nature of LLMs increased our operational costs and the techniques we employed to minimise them.
Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we walk through the steps required to create your own DiffEdit pipeline, allowing you to use generative AI to edit parts of existing images.
Sustainability
An investigation of the methods available to measure energy consumption programmatically.
Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to the random forest machine learning model, an older, yet interesting approach based on decision trees.
Sustainability
If you do one thing to optimise cloud carbon footprint start with your choice of region. Consider the balance between cost, environmental, security and performance considerations when it comes to choosing a cloud region consciously.
Artificial Intelligence
In this post, I provide an overview of the capability models that are out there, summarise the distinct capabilities required for AI/ML projects, and make the case for what I believe to be the most important capability your organisation will require.
Open Source
As I was reading this year's State of Open Source in Finance report, I reflected on my time working in financial services and the ongoing struggle they had adopting and contributing to open source. In this blog I look at the report's findings, how things have (and have not) changed in FS and how larger organisations can foster an open source culture.
Testing
Imagine a new Restaurant opens down the road from you, and you’ve been invited to the opening night. There are no reviews yet, but you’re curious to try it out - In this blog, I aim to simplify testing terminology through a comparison to a real-world scenario.
Testing
In this blog, I will walk the reader through some simple statistical concepts to aid in testing AI. I hope it is accessible regardless of prior statistical knowledge.
Artificial Intelligence
In the light of OpenAI’s system outage, a ripple of unprepared AI powered systems crashed across the world. How can we best secure our LLM based applications against such occurrences?
Artificial Intelligence
I had the pleasure of attending Cvent Connect, a prominent conference for events and marketing professionals held in London last week. Can you guess what the hottest topic for debate was? You're right, it was none other than AI and Tech!
This time it was in the form of the debate of People vs Tech in copywriting and marketing. Read this blog to find out which/who emerged victorious.
Data Engineering
This blog discusses the different ways we might choose to distribute data between services including queues and distributed log technologies and their relative strengths and weaknesses
Testing
A case study of testing a customised GPT-powered chatbot to present strategy and challenges to test LLM-Based applications.
Artificial Intelligence
Have you ever tried explaining something to a child, who pretends to understand, but in reality doesn’t have the foggiest what you’re saying? That’s the experience I’ve had with LangChain agents.
Sustainability
Part of the Conscientious Computing series this blog talks about the emerging ecosystem of organisations that are promoting sustainability within software development, cloud computing, infrastructure, and digital services.
Data Engineering
This blog discusses the different data requirements that exist in a typical organisation and provides some suggestions over how to classify them and match them to technologies