Mario Hernandez: SOLVED – Cannot crop based on original image after initial crop has been set

If you have read my posts about responsive images you will know I have done quite a bit of work with Drupal media and in particular, images. However, I recently ran into an issue I had not experienced before and it was quite challenging to comprehend. The issue was related…

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Measuring brand impact: How LoopMe uses ClickHouse to deliver better brand advertising outcomes

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LoopMe is on a mission to bring brand advertising into the digital age. Founded in 2012, the company’s AI-powered ad tech solutions allow brands and agencies to effectively gauge consumer insights and improve the performance of brand advertising campaigns. Building great ad tech products requires vast amounts of data. For…

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This Week in Neo4j: Knowledge Graph, Graph Database, GraphRAG, Financial Analysis and more

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Welcome to This Week in Neo4j, your weekly fix for news from the world of graph databases! We start this week with a deep dive into Knowledge Graphs and how they work. From there, we have a video interview on how to start with Neo4j, learn how to retrieve info…

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The Bank of the East – Replacing Hadoop with MinIO and Dremio

Our client, a global financial institution headquarterd in Japan, recently completed an ambitious Hadoop replacement project with MinIO and Dremio. You can see them present it in this talk from Subsurface but we thought we would write it up as well. Like most banks, the firm had built out a large…

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Using heuristic evaluation to inform the user experience strategy of a product

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Analytics products such as OpenSearch rely heavily on visual interfaces such as dashboards to communicate the meaning of data to end users. These products offer powerful tools to construct visualizations, and it is crucial that the user workflow is both intuitive and smooth. Of the different research methodologies that a…

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Behind the scenes of the OpenTelemetry Governance Committee

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As a principal engineer at Grafana Labs, my focus is on OpenTelemetry: writing code or maintaining OTel Collector components and tooling, helping out with our recent security audit, and building bridges between people with similar ideas — all with the ultimate goal of helping the OTel community, as a whole,…

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