Spring Batch is a powerful module of the Spring framework that provides out-of-the-box implementation for batch processing tasks. It is used in scenarios where data needs to be processed in multiple ...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a ...

EF Core allows you to use the Scaffold-DbContext or the dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold commands to reverse engineer a database and create entity and DbContext classes for your database tables. This ...

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI), particularly large language models (LLMs), has attracted increasing attention for its potential to support teaching and learning in higher education.

That second line is a bit long, so it would be nice to pull it out as a reusable extension method: Unfortunately this forces Entity Framework to run the query in memory, rather than in the database.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. MySQL remains one of the most popular, open-source databases in the Java community, while ...

The increasing adoption of AI technologies is presenting new challenges for our customers’ data estate and applications. Most organizations expect to deploy AI workloads across a hybrid mix of cloud, ...

Chris Klug keeps seeing developers using Entity Framework in less optimal ways. Microsoft's open-source object-relational mapper (ORM) for .NET applications is not intended to be used to replicate the ...