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Frederick Giasson

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Data Reliability Engineering

I am happy to be able to share about one of the things that I have been up to since I started working at Dayforce. What Is that thing? Data Reliability Engineering I had the opportunity to put in place a new functional area called Data Reliability Engineering. This may look good, but you may [ ]

Searching any Web link within a Org library using org-ql

Jon Snader of Irreal recently made a few blog post about using Emacs as bookmark launcher . You can read them here and here. Those methods were working well, but I was missing something. I am working with Org a lot these days. Not for literate programming as I normally do, but mainly using Org-Roam to [ ]

Literate Programming: for DevOps, MLOps and Infrastructure as Code in General

In this blog post, I am arguing that literate programming concepts are becoming more and more important to the software industry considering the recent (last 15 years) emergence of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and new important specialized developer roles such as DevOps and now MLOps.

OrgWeb: CLI Org-Mode Environment for WEB like development without Emacs

OrgWeb is a command line tool that enables any developers to leverage Org-mode to do literate programming using their preferred IDE environment. In this blog post, we will explore how it works and the development workflow it enables.

Impact of Careful Naming when Using GitHub Copilot

Today, I continue my investigation of how I can better leverage tools such as GitHub Copilot, and their impact on the work of software developers. I recently investigated how such tools can benefit from Literate Programming methodology. I this new post, I am investigating the importance of carefully naming of functions, parameters and variables, and [ ]

Literate Programming at the dawn of LLMs

Since the beginning of the year, the industry s main focus seems to revolve around prompting. We ve seen the emergence of new job titles, new job descriptions, and even the introduction of prompting wizards, all of which are essentially part of branding and marketing strategies. Prompting involves articulating a problem and providing clear instructions in the [ ]

Profiling Python Code in Jupyter while doing Literate Programming with nbdev

As you may know if you followed this blog in the last few weeks, I started to experiment doing literate programming in Python using nbdev. This means that most of the Python code I do today is first written in a Jupyter Notebook (in VSCode), and eventually get their ways into a .py module file. [ ]

ReadNext 0.0.4: Local Embedding Model

I just release ReadNext version 0.0.4. The primary goal of this new version is to remove the dependency on the Cohere Embedding web service endpoint by using a local embedding model by default. To enable that, ReadNext got integrated with Hugging Face and is currently uses the BAAI/bge-base-en model. Local vs. Remote This new change [ ]

How to Deploy Hugging Face Models in Azure using Terraform and Docker

In a previous blog post, I explained how we can easily deploy Hugging Face models in Docker containers. In this new post, I will explain how we can easily deploy that container in Azure using Terraform. At the end of this article, we will have end-to-end process that creates a translation service, containerize, deploy in [ ]

Literate Programming in Python using NBDev

Donald Knuth considered that, of all his work on typography, the idea of literate programming had the greatest impact on him. This is a strong and profound statement that seems to be underestimated by history. Literate programming has grown on me in such a way that I now have a hard time developing in a [ ]