Author: MartijnVeldkamp
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Stop spinning your wheels: The AI Game Plan
My previous articles explored the “AI Battle Royale” – the explosive proliferation of AI models by all these different companies that want to end up on top. And the subsequent “Countless Wheels, Where Are the Cars?”. I think we all see the countless variations on language models, but relative few of truly transformative ideas. I…
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Countless Wheels, Where Are the Cars?
As I posted last week, I made the analogy that we are witnessing an AI Cambrian explosion. It’s a sudden and rapid diversification of artificial intelligence models. Unprecedented burst of AI offerings. Cambrian? Brittanica.com It speaks to the imagination but you have to see it at a relative scale. The Cambrian explosion happened over a…
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AI Battle Royale
The AI landscape seemed relatively simple. ChatGPT and later Claude, and Gemini were dominating conversations. Now? It’s seems a full-blown AI Battle Royale. The news is full with self proclaimed contenders. Everybody wants a slice of this pie. Deepseek, Kimi, Meta, Perplexity, and even Elon Musk’s Grok are new contenders. And let’s be honest, that…
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From Blueprint to CTO
Stolen from https://static.vecteezy.com/ From Blueprint to CTO Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert |…
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Think Outside the Inbox: You need More than Just To-Do Lists
Many Salesforce developers want to have more time for innovative thinking. But in the rush of deadlines, maintenance tasks, looming tech debt, and constant notifications, innovation often falls to the wayside. What is holding us back? One major factor is the unspoken culture within many organizations. Even experienced developers may feel pressured to put in…
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The Evolution of Data Integration
In today’s interconnected applications landscape, we rely on data shared across multiple systems and services. Throughout my career as an architect, integration strategies have evolved from basic ETL database copies to monolithic middleware, operational databases, API-driven microservices, and now ZeroCopy patterns. As I’m almost a year older again I look back at all the stuff…
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On Autopilot in Your Architecture Decisions?
Last Wednesday was a very foggy day to travel by car to the office. I noticed that a lot of people either where running all their foglights or just their daytime lights making them nearly invisible. Ever driven through “thick” fog, only to realise that your car’s daytime running lights are on, but your full…
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Architecture is Like a Game of Cluedo
Really? Designing an architecture is as fun as a game of Cluedo? I know, they seem worlds apart. One is a classic murder mystery board game, and the other is a structured approach to solving complex technical problems. However, when you squint your eyes a bit and look a bit cross-eyed, the process of uncovering…
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Moving Beyond the Honeymoon Phase
Lucidworks, in its 2024 Generative AI Global Benchmark Study released last Tuesday, declared that “The honeymoon phase of generative AI is over.” source/A While business leaders remain optimistic about AI’s transformative potential, the initial excitement has evolved into a more cautious and much needed measured approach. It is great that we start to see more…
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Be very sure on what you want !
But that goes for more things in life. No matter how good the tech is, you have to think of the use-case. You have to see it. You have to notice something you spend a lot of time doing and realise that it could be automated with a tool. And when it is automated it…