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MCP Gateway tutorial: Connect an AI Agent to Apache Kafka and HTTP server backends

Overview: What is an MCP Gateway and why do we need it? Early LLMs could only reason over what they were trained&hellip...

OpenSearch 3.7: Faster vectors and smarter hybrid search

OpenSearch 3.7 released to GA on June 10, 2026, and with it comes a lot of improvements that directly affect AI practitioners&...

Kafka® Streams error handling, Part 2: How to catch and fix bad records with KIP-1034 and ...

This “Apache Kafka Streams news processing application with KIP-1034” blog series is split into two parts. Part 1 focused on the ...

How to build an Apache Kafka® Streams application with KIP-1034 Dead Letter Queues and LLM...

Introduction In this two-part Kafka Streams tutorial, we build a Kafka Streams application that processes streaming news data in ...

Optimizing AI Search in OpenSearch: A practical guide

Classic lexical search matches tokens: if the user does not use the same words as the document, relevance suffers. Semantic search...

How to create a hybrid search pipeline in OpenSearch®

Hybrid search in OpenSearch is a retrieval method that combines multiple search techniques, such as keyword matching and semantic ...

Kafka® to Iceberg: Build a queryable data lake with ClickHouse®

That's ClickHouse below querying an Iceberg table on S3 within 0.31 seconds to read metadata and return the first rows. No Spark&...

Apache Iceberg explained: A better table format for modern data lakes

Data lakes had a reputation problem. The promise was compelling: dump all your data into cheap object storage—S3, GCS, Azure Blob—...

How to handle bad messages safely in Kafka Streams with KIP-1034 Dead Letter Queues

What should you do with messages that can’t be delivered? If you have spent time developing Kafka Streams applications in Java, ...