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Why fast models can still feel slow

Decode speed is only one part of agent performance; prefill, cache reuse, tool latency, and serving behavior shape the loop before the model writes a token.

My desk has been losing the hardware battle for years: a 3090, then Apple Silicon, then borrowed time on bigger boxes whenever I could arrange it. I told myself it was…

Controlling Qwen’s thinking mode

Qwen’s thinking mode needed serving controls, not just a bigger token cap.

I wanted a coding agent I could run on my own hardware: open a terminal, start a session, and get a responsive loop without a round-trip to someone else’s API. Qwen3.6-27B…

Why You Should Just Use A Feature Store

databricks

pipeline

featurestore

You can think of a Feature Store like a table specifically managed for ML pipelines. If you’re familiar with the Medallion Architecture, Feature Stores can be thought of as s…

ML Pipelines With and Without Feature Stores

databricks

pipeline

featurestore

Feature engineering pipelines help you automate and modularize the process of turning your raw data into features that can be used to train your ML models. Specifically…

Gemini API Starting Guide

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agents

gemini

The Google Gen AI SDK offers a standardized interface for interacting with Gemini models via both the Gemini Developer API and the Gemini API available on Vertex AI. With…

OpenAI vs Gemini on Documents

ai

agents

documents

In the following section, we present a fictional dialogue between two advanced AI agents — Goodle Gen AI and OpenAI. These agents engage in an analytical discussion about…

Reflexion Pattern for AI Agents

ai

agents

This Jupyter Notebook is designed to demonstrate a simple setup for querying and comparing responses from two large language models (LLMs): OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Google’s…

Why You Need a Data Catalog, and Why We Host Ours Within Databricks

databricks

data

Part 1: What is a data catalog?

How to Create Blog Posts for Entropy Exchange

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documentation

New blog contributors face an unclear publishing process → This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating, previewing, and publishing posts on the Entropy…

Rick Montgomery

How to make a Chatbot in Databricks Apps as quickly as possible

But also continue working on it