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A collection of articles, podcasts and blogs on all things cloud, data and digital - from our consultants, industry veterans and experts around the world.


Trustworthy AI: The Data-Governance Playbook That Keeps Regulators (and Boards) Happy
As organizations migrate to Google Cloud, strong data governance is critical for building trustworthy AI. Regulators and boards expect transparency and compliance, making responsible data handling a priority. By treating data as a regulated asset and leveraging tools like Google Dataplex and Vertex AI, companies can ensure secure, unbiased AI systems. Trustworthy AI during GCP migration isn’t optional, it’s a long-term advantage.

SquareShift Content Team
Aug 194 min read


Langfuse Self Hosting: A Complete Guide to Docker Compose Deployment, Setup, and Observability
Discover how to deploy Langfuse locally or on a virtual machine with Docker Compose. This step-by-step guide explores core Langfuse features, prompt management tools, self-hosting benefits, and advanced observability techniques for LLM-powered applications.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 284 min read


Building Production-Ready LLM Apps with Langfuse: Your Ultimate Guide
Tired of treating your LLM app like a black box? Langfuse gives AI engineers the visibility and control they need to debug hallucinations, manage prompts with precision, and evaluate LLM performance in real-time. This guide explores how Langfuse brings observability, DevOps readiness, and cost-efficiency to your AI workflows so you can confidently ship and scale production-ready LLM apps.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 254 min read


Foresight AI - AutoML vs Custom Models in Vertex AI: Choosing the Right Forecasting Strategy
Should you use AutoML or build custom models for your forecasting needs? At Foresight AI, we faced this dilemma head-on. This blog unpacks our decision-making process, real-world implementation on Vertex AI, and why a hybrid forecasting strategy powered by automation, feature engineering, and MLOps is the future.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 244 min read


Creating a Solid Vertex AI Dev Environment Using Vertex AI Pipelines
Vertex AI Pipelines transform how ML teams orchestrate scalable, modular workflows on Google Cloud Vertex AI. This guide breaks down how to build a robust Vertex AI development environment, covering library modularization, containerized ML pipelines, KFP LocalRunner local testing, and CI/CD deployment automation ensuring your models move efficiently from experimentation to production.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 234 min read


AI-Powered Vulnerability Management: Transform Your Security Operations, Cut Response Time by 75%
AI Resolve X is SquareShift’s generative AI-powered platform built to tackle today’s overwhelming cybersecurity threats. With the surge in CVEs and analyst burnout, AI Resolve X streamlines vulnerability management by eliminating false positives, accelerating patch cycles, and enabling natural language querying through its built-in VMBot. Discover how enterprises can move from reactive defense to proactive risk mitigation while saving millions and retaining top talent.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 173 min read


Unlocking Intelligent Conversations: Building a Slack Bot for Google AgentSpace
Discover how to create a powerful Slack bot for Google AgentSpace that transforms how teams interact with data. This hands-on guide walks you through secure setup, conversational triggers, and cross-functional automation, perfect for developers and productivity leaders looking to boost workplace efficiency.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 1010 min read


Extend Your AI Power: Build Custom AI Agents with Google AgentSpace
Extend your AI power with Custom AI Agents in Google AgentSpace. Learn how to design, build, and deploy intelligent agents tailored to your unique workflows improving productivity, streamlining processes, and securely connecting your enterprise systems with cutting-edge AI. From choosing the right model to enabling multi-agent collaboration and measuring performance, this comprehensive guide gives you everything you need to bring intelligence to the edge of your business.

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 44 min read


Unlocking New Powers: Seamlessly Implementing LangChain MCP Integration for Multi-Tool AI Agents
Unlock the true potential of your AI development with seamless LangChain MCP Integration. In this comprehensive guide, discover how to build powerful multi-tool AI agents by combining LangChain with Anthropic MCP tools. Learn to orchestrate multiple specialized MCP servers, dynamically aggregate tools, and supercharge your agents with intelligent prompts, resources, and executable actions. Dive in now to revolutionize your AI workflows and create agents that are smarter, fast

SquareShift Content Team
Jul 44 min read


Revolutionizing Enterprise Productivity with Google Agentspace
In today’s AI-first enterprise landscape, businesses are sitting on mountains of valuable data scattered across documents, emails, databases, calendars, and collaboration tools like Google Workspace. Yet, the true challenge isn't storing all this information it’s finding it, understanding it, and acting on it quickly. That’s where Google AgentSpace steps in as a transformative solution.

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 275 min read


Reflection Agent: Writing the Ideal Tweet with Self-Adjusting AI
In the fast-evolving world of generative AI, it's no longer enough for an AI to just create content it must also be able to critique, learn, and improve. This blog explores the concept of a "Reflection Agent", a powerful construct that enables AI to refine its own outputs through feedback loops. Specifically, it focuses on building a self-correcting AI Tweet Generator using LangChain and LangGraph, with Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash as the underlying large language model.

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 277 min read


Bridging Two Worlds of AI: A New Approach to Time Series Forecasting
In today's AI landscape, traditional machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) represent two distinct approaches to problem-solving. Traditional ML is data-driven and precise, excelling in areas like fraud detection and time-series forecasting where data is well-understood and problems are well-defined. GenAI, on the other hand, is broad, flexible, and capable of reasoning across various domains without strict rules, forming the basis of large language models and intel

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 185 min read


The Future of Work is Here: Google AgentSpace Leads the AI Agent Revolution
Google AgentSpace is set to revolutionize the future of work by offering a smarter and simpler approach to AI agents and data interaction. Unlike many current AI agent systems that rely on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and require complex setup and constant adjustments , AgentSpace streamlines the process. Users can connect their tools once, ask questions in plain English, and receive instant answers.

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 184 min read


Building Your Own Smart Elasticsearch Agent with LangGraph and Gemini
This blog post provides a comprehensive guide on building a smart Elasticsearch agent that facilitates natural language querying of data, eliminating the need for users to master Elasticsearch's complex DSL. The agent's workflow, orchestrated by LangGraph and powered by Google's Gemini model for natural language understanding and query generation, involves normalizing user queries, translating them into Elasticsearch DSL, executing the search, and summarizing the results for

SquareShift Content Team
Jun 1813 min read


Revolutionizing AI: Google's Offline AI Solution - window.ai
Revolutionizing AI: Google's Offline AI Solution - window.ai

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 17, 20242 min read


Evaluating Agentic Architecture Systems in Generative AI
Evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) agentic architectures is crucial for ensuring their effectiveness, safety, and adaptability in complex environments. Current robust methods emphasize an evaluation-driven design approach, integrating continuous evaluation throughout the LLM agent's lifecycle, from development to deployment. This involves comprehensive evaluation plans with defined objectives and metrics, and continuous feedback loops for real-time adjustments.

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 10, 20243 min read


Setting Up MySQL Debezium Connector for Change Data Capture (CDC)
Setting Up MySQL Debezium Connector for Change Data Capture (CDC)

SquareShift Engineering Team
Dec 6, 20243 min read


The Power of Looker with Generative AI
The Power of Looker with Generative AI

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 15, 20242 min read


How Generative AI is Changing the World Around Us
How Generative AI is Changing the World Around Us

SquareShift Engineering Team
Nov 1, 20243 min read


Unlocking Collaboration and Autonomy: Exploring Microsoft’s Autogen Framework
Unlocking Collaboration and Autonomy: Exploring Microsoft’s Autogen Framework

SquareShift Engineering Team
Oct 15, 20243 min read
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