For years, we’ve built elaborate scaffolding around our databases: message queues to broadcast changes, cron jobs to sync schemas, webhooks to notify downstream systems. We needed this scaffolding because Postgres was “just” a database, a place to store rows and run queries. The...
After my last lecture series with Sarah Paine ended, I still had so many questions. I knew we’d only scratched the surface of Sarah’s scholarship, so I immediately invited her back for another series: she graciously agreed, and we’ll be releasing the results online over the coming weeks and months!…
In this episode, Chris sits down with Igor Nikitin, CEO and co-founder of Nice Technologies, to explore how AI and modern engineering practices are transforming the actuarial field and setting the stage for the future of actuarial modeling. We discuss the introduction of programming into insurance…
Solara6 Kate Spade, Coach, Mattress Firm. Vercel is partnering with, a digital agency known for building high-performing ecommerce experiences for customers likeand Their work emphasizes AI-powered efficiencies, fast iteration cycles, and user experience, while prioritizing measurable outcomes…
Qwen3 Coder QwenLM AI Gateway You can now access, a model from, an Alibaba Cloud company, designed to handle complex, multi-step coding workflows, using Vercel'swith no other provider accounts required. AI Gateway lets you call the model with a consistent unified API and just a single string…
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new way to help standardize the way large language models (LLMs) access data and systems, extending what they can do beyond their training data. It standardizes how developers expose data sources, tools, and context to models and agents, enabling safe, predictable…