The digital universe is expanding at an unimaginable pace, spewing forth petabytes of real-world data every second. Yet, paradoxically, for many cutting-edge AI applications, real data is often the biggest bottleneck. It's too sensitive, too scarce, too biased, or simply too expensive to acquire. Synthetic data – artificially generated data...
GPT-5 for Developers —
OpenAI’s newest API models (gpt-5, mini, nano) focus on stronger coding and agentic tool-use with clear migration notes.Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-for-developers/OpenAI Realtime API (gpt-realtime) GA launch adds better speech-to-speech, SIP calling, image inputs, and remote MCP servers for production voice agents.Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-realtime/OpenAI LLM Evaluation at Booking.com A practical playbook: strong-model...
Performance Engineering for Cloud Cost Optimization: Tuning for Efficiency, Not Just Speed
The cloud promised agility and infinite scale, and it delivered. But for many organizations, that promise has come with a hidden tax: a growing, often-uncontrolled mountain of cloud costs. The race to deploy applications has prioritized speed over efficiency, leaving a crucial discipline—performance engineering—on the sidelines. This isn't just a...
OpenTelemetry’s Dominance: Standardizing Observability for a Cloud-Native World
The digital world has shifted. We've moved from monolithic applications to complex, distributed systems built on microservices, containers, and serverless functions. This new reality has made traditional monitoring tools feel like a relic of the past. Collecting logs, metrics, and traces from hundreds of services, often across multiple cloud providers,...
The AIOps Evolution: Predictive Analytics & Automated Remediation with GenAI
The digital world is more complex than ever. With cloud-native, microservices-based architectures, and a tsunami of telemetry data, IT operations teams are drowning. Traditional monitoring—relying on static dashboards and rule-based alerts—is no longer enough. The "alert fatigue" is real, and the time it takes to identify and fix issues (MTTR)...
How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too)
"How I Keep Up With AI Progress" outlines a deliberate strategy to stay informed amid the noise of AI hype and skepticism. The author advocates curating a high-signal feed from credible voices (like Simon Willison, Karpathy, and select researchers), following original sources from AI labs, and practicing intentional daily skimming...
Smart Hiring at Scale with StageOne – TurfAI Smart Accelerator
Powered by TurfAI – OpenTurf’s Generative AI Platform Executive Summary OpenTurf has been building smart accelerators to showcase the power of its TurfAI platform. One such innovation, StageOne, is an AI Video Interview Bot designed to automate and enhance technical hiring processes. In a recent internal rollout (dogfooding) for OpenTurf’s...
Building the Future of Document Intelligence for Fexo
The Challenge Fexo approached OpenTurf with an ambitious vision: to transform how the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector processes vast amounts of document-intensive data. Their goal was to build an enterprise-grade platform capable of converting unstructured information into actionable intelligence using advanced AI. The core challenges were substantial:...
Key take‑aways from Andrej Karpathy’s keynote “Software Is Changing (Again)”
Three paradigms of software Software 1.0 – traditional hand‑written code.Software 2.0 – neural‑network “weights as code”, produced by training on data.Software 3.0 – large‑language‑model computers that you “program” with English prompts; the prompt is now the source code. Take a look at the video here Learnings from two years of using AI tools for software engineering...
Gen AI & Observability trends in 2025
As digital infrastructures grow increasingly complex, traditional observability methods often fall short in providing comprehensive insights.In 2025, observability has evolved from a reactive monitoring practice to a proactive, intelligent system powered by Generative AI. This transformation is enabling organizations to detect anomalies earlier, reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR), and...