written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-02-04 | tags: generative ai images
My father has an old picture of my grandfather that he loves. Unfortunately it's blurry and artifacted. For the last five years, at the end of each year, I've taken a few hours to see if cutting edge tech tools for digital image restoration could improve it. They failed miserably until EOY 2025...
Read on... (273 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-02-02 | tags: observability engineering open source machine learning
Let's say you've fully instrumented your organization's applications with OpenTelemetry. You're capturing tons of useful metrics, trace data, and service attributes. Congratulations! Will incident time to recovery drop? Let's think through this before you celebrate too much...
Read on... (2489 words, approximately 13 minutes reading time)written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-01-17 | tags: engineering open source
I was invited to speak at the Prefect-sponsored PyAI DC event and had a wonderful time meeting DC's AI community. It was an honor to speak alongside both AWS and government data leaders. The highlight of the night was Prefect's leadership giving some details about the upcoming major update of FastMCP...
Read on... (167 words, approximately 1 minute reading time)written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-01-09 | tags: engineering open source agentic ai
Okay, I decided to take that free-floating ASCII diagram code and make it into a proper open-source python package. I present to you “RetroFlow”. On the surface it seems silly, but there are a lot of advantages to using ASCII flowcharts, particularly in this age of agentic AI...
Read on... (238 words, approximately 2 minutes reading time)written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-01-05 | tags: engineering open source
I forget how it started but recently I've been enjoying making these cool retro-ish, ASCII flow diagrams for my personal projects. They look like something you'd find in a dusty cabinet of early NASA documents. Code linked in post...
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