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Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available. They have five headline findings: Code generation is no longer the bottleneck — verifica…

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The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action

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GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

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DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

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How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

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How sales teams use ChatGPT Work

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Dynamic formatting by hierarchy level with ISINSCOPE and ISATLEVEL

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Fragments: July 13

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat. When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering. This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses, most of the discussio…

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The Benefits Of Using Direct Lake Mode In Power BI

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GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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Fragments: July 6

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat, this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sessions. This isn’t an event t…

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Understanding The “Database Was Evicted To Balance The CPU Load” Error In Power BI

A few months ago I wrote about a rare error – the “Maximum allowable memory allocation” error – that may occur when the physical machine, or node, that a semantic model is running on in the Power BI Service comes under memory pressure. Recently, someone I was working with who was…

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We Tried Agile and It Didn’t Work

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Using REMOVEFILTERS in DAX user-defined functions

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Fragments: June 16

“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) has loved programming since he was young. Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is it?” I didn’t connect particula…

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One of the most interesting projects my colleagues have done with LLMs has been building a system with Bayer to allow pharmaceutical researchers to query decades of information about studies buried in PDF reports. Sarang Sanjay Kulkarni describes its evolution from keyword-based…

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Optional parameters in DAX user-defined functions

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Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 3: Is More Parallelism Always Good?

To finish off my series of posts on concurrent evaluation in Fabric Dataflows Gen2 (see part 1 and part 2) I decided to do some more realistic tests to see how much parallelism I could get. To do this I uploaded 244 identical Excel files containing almost 542000 rows of data each…

Fragments: June 2

Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more productive? Each of those approache…

Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases

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Fabric Dataflows Gen2 And Concurrent Evaluation, Part 2: Partitioned Compute

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Fragments: May 27

At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point - Octob…

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Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…

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Bliki: Vibe Coding

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Birgitta Böckeler adds discussion of three more sensors for static code analysis, focusing on checking and enforcing better modularity. Computational sensors for dependency checks were good at enforcing rules, but the rules were limited. Building a computational sensor for coupli…

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Introducing user-aware calculated columns in Power BI

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Introducing user-aware calculated columns in Power BI

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Understanding The “You’ve Exceeded The Capacity Limit For Dataset Refreshes” Error in Power BI

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Fragments: May 14

Last week I spent a day at The Orchard Retreat, hosted by Mechanical Orchard. that brought together several people working in software development to talk about the profession’s future with the rise of agentic programming. The event was help under the Chatham House Rule, so I can…

Bliki: Interrogatory LLM

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Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual…

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Fragments: May 5

Over the last couple of months Rahul Garg published a series of posts here on how to reduce the friction in AI-assisted programming. To make it easier to put these ideas into practice he’s now built an open-source framework to operationalize these patterns. AI coding assistants j…

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Filtering measures through slicers

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Filtering measures through slicers

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Understanding parameter types in DAX user-defined functions (UDF)

This article describes the parameter types available in DAX user-defined functions, focusing on the specialized reference types MEASUREREF, COLUMNREF, TABLEREF, and CALENDARREF. In a previous article, Introducing user-defined functions in DAX, we described the syntax for creating…

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Using visual calculation to highlight an entire row

How to highlight a row based solely on the maximum value in the last column using visual calculations, a tool that can be used efficiently to format visuals.

How to navigate the lattice of visual calculations

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Using visual calculations to highlight an entire row

Visual calculations can be used efficiently to format visuals. This article presents an interesting technique to highlight a row based solely on the maximum value in the last column. When it comes to visuals, users may want to specific cells…

SQLBI+ updates in April 2026

We released a new session in SQLBI+: How to navigate the lattice of visual calculations: This video explains how to navigate the lattice of visual calculations in DAX, using COLLAPSEALL and EXPAND to move between levels. A key topic is…

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When There’s Too Much Work…and Not Enough You

During our initial kick-off call, a coaching client shared how he made the “heinous mistake” of taking a sick day, only to return to his desk where he was greeted by: 34 unread messages in Slack; 9 in Teams; 3 “quick questions” in an inbox that was already overflowing with (other…

Your Brain is Fine. Your System is Overloaded.

If there’s been one constant among the individuals and teams we consult with or coach, it’s that people are certain that us humans are the problem. He should be better at this by now. I just need more discipline. If the team could only get its act together, things wouldn’t be suc…

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This playful quiz helps readers identify the leadership instinct they default to under pressure, then connects those patterns to the real conditions agile teams need to succeed.

The Third Edition of the Mastering DAX Video Course – unplugged

Alberto and I recorded an unplugged session to talk about the new edition of the Mastering DAX Video Course. You can watch it above, but if you prefer a quick read, here are some thoughts. The question we heard the…

Highlights from FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Where databases and Fabric come together

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FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform

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Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate

Built on a consistent Microsoft SQL foundation from on premises to the cloud, Azure SQL brings AI capabilities directly into your database experience. The post Advancing agentic AI with Microsoft databases across a unified data estate appeared first on Microsoft Fabric Blog.

You Have Everything You Need to Start. So Why Can’t You?

This is part of the Five Moments series — five experiences that tell you your brain needs a board. Start with The Science of Finishing Things on Humane Work. You sit down to work. The list is right there. Fifteen items, maybe twenty. All of them legitimate. Most of them overdue.…

Ambiguous WIP: When Your Task Has No Definition of Done

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Guerilla WIP…The Work You’re Doing That Nobody Knows About

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Unpacking your top questions on agentic AI: The Shift podcast

We're launching a new podcast called "The Shift," which does exactly that. Grounded in questions we heard from you after Ignite news, we're releasing eight episodes that bring engineering, product, and strategy perspectives together. The post Unpacking your top questions on agent…

Your Kanban Is Already Nudging You, Is It In The Right Direction?

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Your Done Column Is Not a Graveyard. Dan Ariely and Personal Kanban.

PopTech, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This is part of the Behavioral Economists series. Start with The Science of Finishing Things on Humane Work. People want to know they are having an impact. But when I ask people what motivates them at work and they'll say something abo…

The Optimistic Brain Is a Terrible Project Manager

Image of Daniel Kahnemann work by nrkbeta.no is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Norway License. This is part of the Behavioral Economists series. Start with The Science of Finishing Things on Humane Work. Monday mornings are their own special magic.…

Top sessions you won’t want to miss at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2026

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FabCon and SQLCon: From workshops and keynotes to demos and deep dives

FabCon and SQLCon will be one of the year’s largest gatherings of data professionals from around the world, bringing together tech enthusiasts, innovators, and industry leaders to explore the future of data, SQL, analytics, business intelligence, and AI integration. The post FabC…

You’re Cookie. We’re All Cookie.

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When Life Won’t Let You Work: Understanding Your Overload

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Leading Complexity 2025 — Just Two Weeks Away!

We’re just two weeks away from the launch of Leading Complexity 2025, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome the amazing group of participants who’ve signed up from around the world. This year marks the fourth season of the program — and the theme feels more urgent and releva…

How to Lead—and Not Be Led—by AI in Complexity

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Trying Out Lovable – A New Way to Build Websites with AI

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Deep Dive into WebSockets and Their Role in Client-Server Communication

Align Your Strategies

In the past few weeks, I’ve received similar questions from two different companies, which I’d like to reflect on here. Both organizations were in the process of crafting strategies for critical areas: one for AI and the other for cybersecurity. Their question to me was whether i…

Why your teams aren’t really empowered (and how to fix It)

What actually empowers a team? Despite all the talk about empowered teams in tech, there's often confusion about what real empowerment looks like. At its core, an empowered product team is given significant customer or business problems to solve, rather than being handed features…

If You Lived in Germany in 1939, What Would You Do?

Imagine the following: You live in Germany in 1939. Or perhaps it’s 1938, or even as early as 1935. The Nazis are in power. If you’re an average German, your material conditions are probably quite good. Unemployment is low, and the Nazis have introduced extensive “welfare program…

Interview with Petra Wille

Jennie Mårtensson interviews Petra Wille, a renowned product leadership coach and author of Strong Product People and Strong Product Communities. Petra shares her insights on why being a product manager is one of the most exciting jobs, drawing from her extensive experience acros…

Interview with Henrik Kniberg on Generative AI

We chatted with our colleague Henry Kniberg at Crisp about his latest work on generative AI and his upcoming master class in the Leading Complexity program. He shared some very insightful comments: “Generative AI makes things less predictable but more intelligent.” “If I had to e…

AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available

Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

BLST Security Extends Support for OpenAPI Specification Table

BLST Security recently released the latest version of its platform, enabling DevOps and Application Security teams to avoid API specification flaws. The BLST platform aims to help teams understand their APIs by creating an OpenAPI Specification table. By Aditya Kulkarni

Obituary: Alex Blewitt

It is with great sadness that we announce that InfoQ editor Dr. Alex Blewitt has unexpectedly passed away. By Daniel Bryant

JetBrains Launches Containerized Development Environment Space On-Premises

Space, JetBrains's take on containerized, remote development environments, is now available on-premises as a beta for all organizations that prefer to have full control over their tools instead of relying on third-party Cloud services. By Sergio De Simone

Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Its Gateway Load Balancer in All Regions

Gateway Load Balancer is a fully-managed service enabling enterprises to deploy, scale, and enhance the availability of third-party network virtual appliances (NVAs) in Azure. Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Gateway Load Balancer in all public regions, Az…

Article: Gatling vs JMeter - What to Use for Performance Testing

A performance tool with a graphical interface will probably be easier to use at the beginning, but the idea of a performance test as code is the future. Tests are readable and much easier to maintain. Many people are skeptical about Gatling because it requires learning a new prog…

AWS Announces General Availability of its Cloud WAN for Centralized Workload Management

Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its Cloud WAN solution allowing enterprises to set up and manage a complete WAN environment from a single cloud-based console. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Java News Roundup: Microsoft Joins MicroProfile and Jakarta EE, GlassFish, Payara, Micronaut

This week's Java roundup for July 11th, 2022, features news from JDK 19, JDK 20, Microsoft joins MicroProfile and Jakarta EE working groups, Jakarta EE 10 update, Spring updates, Payara Enterprise 5.41.0, GlassFish 7.0-M7, Micronaut 3.5.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.Alpha1, Native Buil…

Presentation: Optimizing Efficiency & Capacity Management at Web Scale on the Cloud

Molly Junck shares insight on how Pinterest optimizes their use of the cloud, concurrently maintaining demands for security, availability, rate of innovation, and infrastructure efficiency. By Molly Junck

AWS Enhances its Step Functions Experience with Workflow Collections

AWS Step Functions is a serverless function orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and multiple AWS services into business-critical applications. AWS recently introduced a new experience to its Step Functions with Function Workflow Collections allowing u…

OpenSSL Releases Fix for High-Severity Vulnerability

OpenSSL 3.0.4, released less than a month ago, introduced a bug that enabled a remote code execution vulnerability on machines computing 2048 bit RSA keys on X86_64 CPUs. A fix is now available in OpenSSL 3.0.5. By Sergio De Simone

Article: Using DevOps Automation to Combat DevOps Workforce Shortages

A focus on automation can help to combat the current staffing struggles many organizations have with DevOps roles. Effective automation can reduce the toil experienced by developers. Automation efforts should focus on security operations, deployments, continuous delivery, QA test…

Google Cloud Announces Advanced API Security through Apigee

Recently Google announced the public preview of Advanced API Security, a comprehensive set of API security capabilities built on Apigee, their API management platform. With the new capability, customers can detect security threats more efficiently. By Steef-Jan Wiggers