Technology radar

Data and Analytics

Data governance, quality, analytics and data products.

Daily update 11 categories Source cited in every entry
Data and Analytics

5 AutoHotkey Scripts for Data Scientists

Five AutoHotkey v2 scripts that handle repetitive Windows desktop work around data analysis: launching a project workspace, converting clipboard IDs to Python or SQL lists, fixing file paths, and snapping windows into place.

Read the entry →
Data and Analytics

How Flo Health built safer, more useful open models with Databricks AI Runtime

For Flo Health, the bar for generative AI is unusually high. With 81 million monthly...

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

I Built a Trap for AI Image Judges. They Walked Into a Different One.

Three vision AI models ignored the pretty image, yet GPT-4o invented answers and Claude kept answering B. The post I Built a Trap for AI Im…

Read →
Data and Analytics

Article: When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering,…

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API

Is this the JEV killer? The post A Practical Guide to OpenAI's New Decisions API appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

Agentic Systems: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns

Beyond basic ReAct loops: six production-oriented architectures for building autonomous, reliable, and scalable LLM agents. The post Agenti…

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

Why Temperature 0 Isn't Deterministic

A one-line formula for how often an LLM's top token flips, and why identical completions fall apart after about a hundred tokens The post W…

Read →
Data and Analytics

How California built its Behavioral Health Public County Profile on Databricks

The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) built the Behavioral Health...

Read →
Data and Analytics

From post-training to production: How TinyFish runs its web-native model on Databricks AI Runtime

TinyFish builds infrastructure for enterprises that need agents to work across the live web. Its Search, Fetch, Browser...

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents Safer Without Another LLM?

How a decision-first model can catch risky tool calls before they turn into real-world actions The post Can TypeSafe's Jev Make AI Agents S…

Read →
Data and Analytics

Introducing Funke: Native HL7v2 Parsing on Databricks

The HL7v2 problem in the lakehouseHL7v2 is the messaging standard that quietly runs healthcare...

Read →
Data and Analytics

How to build governed enterprise apps on Databricks with Replit and Lakebase

The combination of Replit & Databricks gives enterprises a complete development-to-deployment platform...

Read →
Data and Analytics

AI-powered data pipeline observability: Stop monitoring and start preventing

Devops tools are making it increasingly easy to monitor data pipeline failures. But in many cases, those alerts are already too late. Take …

Read →
Data and Analytics

Set Budgets and Alerts for Cloud Data Warehouse Costs

Every analytics team has been here: a month-end invoice arrives, and a single SQL...

Read →
Data and Analytics

Now GA: Building permission-aware Databricks Apps with on-behalf-of-user authorization

Databricks Apps lets developers build and deploy data and AI applications directly on the Databricks platform...

Read →
Data and Analytics

Federated Query at Petabyte Scale: A Deployment Pattern for a Governed AI-Agent Data Layer

A federated query architecture can reduce data duplication and latency while creating a governed, auditable data layer that enterprise AI a…

Read →
Data and Analytics

Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software

Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so …

Read →
Data and Analytics

Spanner Omni Reaches GA, Replacing Google's Atomic Clocks and File System with Software

Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so …

Read →
Data and Analytics

How to Repoint dbt ETL Pipelines to Databricks

More teams are running their dbt transformations on Databricks Lakehouse: an open...

Read →
Data and Analytics

AI-powered analytics: Building data visualizations with natural language vs. SQL

Richard Tomlinson, who leads product marketing for Databricks' business intelligence...

Read →
Data and Analytics

The lakehouse is a better data warehouse: 2026 benchmarks and proof

The warehouse was the right answer for 20 yearsThe data warehouse earned its place. For two decades...

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

Managed Apache Iceberg at scale: How Spanner powers Lakehouse runtime catalog

As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data es…

Read →
Data and Analytics

Scaling and Operating a Large dbt Project on Databricks: IFCO's Data Team on Performance, Visibility, and Debugging

AbstractIFCO runs one of the world's largest reusable packaging pools with hundreds of millions of crates and pallets...

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

How I Use AI to Learn New Topics Faster: An AI-Assisted Learning Framework

A practical framework for turning AI into a thinking partner The post How I Use AI to Learn New Topics Faster: An AI-Assisted Learning Fram…

Read →
Data and Analytics

Meta’s ads MCP server comes to Databricks: Put your customer intelligence to work in advertising campaigns

Here’s a familiar scenario for enterprise advertisers: the data team has done real...

Read →
Data and Analytics

AlloyDB: A unified database engine for hybrid search

For modern AI and RAG applications, achieving high search relevance requires that you combine at least two techniques: vector search for se…

Read →
Data and Analytics

NEAREST BY Join: Scaling Vector Search in Databricks Runtime

Vector search originated as a serving problem. The classical use case is a chatbot...

Read →
Data and Analytics

How Genie Ontology powers product development at Databricks

General-purpose AI agents are good at searching the web, reasoning, and writing code....

Read →
Data and Analytics

Aspire 13.6 Adds Persistent Dashboard Telemetry and First-Party Java and Rust Hosting

Microsoft has released Aspire 13.6. The dashboard now stores telemetry in SQLite and keeps up to ten completed runs per application. The re…

Read →
Data and Analytics
Data and Analytics

How to Govern AI Agents

From guarding one agent to steering a fleet The post How to Govern AI Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Read →
How the radar works

Published daily, edited by me

A scheduled process prepares the entries for each category every day; I review them, edit them and add my own from the administration console.

1 · It runs every day

A scheduled task runs in the early hours and goes through the active categories.

2 · It drafts the entry

Title, summary and analysis, with the source cited and the original link always visible.

3 · It assigns the image

It takes the cover image from the source or a stock image with a free-use license.

4 · I edit and publish

From the console I approve, correct or write my own entries and articles.

Darinel Ortega Online · I reply during the day
Today
Hello. I'm not selling anything here: this is for exchanging knowledge about technology.
Write whatever you like — you can send text, images or documents. Messages reach my console and I reply from there.

An open conversation to share knowledge. Messages reach my console and I reply from there.

Let us book a conversation

Pick the day and time that work for you. Thirty minutes, no sales pitch.

Video call

For a video call, just ask for one here and I'll send you the session link.