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Generative AI
6 May 2026 8 min

Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Making LLMs Reason

Chain-of-thought prompting asks a model to write out its reasoning before the answer. This guide explains why that helps, measures it on 20 arithmetic word problems with a small open model, counts what the extra tokens cost, and explains why newer reasoning models have made the instruction unnecessary for them.

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Generative AI
6 May 2026 6 min

Agentic AI Roadmap 2026: From Prompts to Autonomous Systems

Agentic AI is the most hyped corner of generative AI and the easiest to learn in the wrong order. This roadmap builds it in seven stages, from reliable prompts and structured output through retrieval and tools to workflows, agents and production safeguards, with something to build at each stage.

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GCP
6 May 2026 7 min

GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification Guide

The Professional Data Engineer exam tests design judgement more than commands. This guide sets out the facts from Google's exam page, the five sections and their weights, a table matching the product names in the exam guide to the names in today's documentation, and a way to prepare by building.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 8 min

Linux Interview Questions for Data Engineers

Linux rounds for data engineers are about handling data files from the command line and writing shell steps that fail loudly. Eight questions are answered with real commands on a 2-million-line electricity file and the NYC taxi zone table: sizing files, awk sums, counting, pipefail, parallel chunks, find, export.

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Generative AI
6 May 2026 8 min

Ollama Tutorial: Run LLMs Locally on Your Machine

Ollama runs open language models on your own computer with one install. This tutorial walks through the command line, the REST API, conversation history, the OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a custom model built from a Modelfile, all run on an ordinary laptop, with the settings and limits worth knowing.

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GCP
6 May 2026 10 min

BigQuery Window Functions and Analytic SQL

A window function computes a value for each row from a set of related rows, without collapsing them. This guide works through running totals, moving averages, period change, share of total and top-per-group on 2.9 million real trips, then shows the two frame mistakes that return wrong numbers without an error.

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