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Android Developers Blog

Google Play launches the first Indie Games Fund in Africa

Posted by Steph Pio, Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google Play EMEA Sub-Saharan Africa is home to some of the world’s most creative storytelling. To help bring those stories to a global audience, today, we’re proud to announce the debut of Google Play’s Indie Games Fund in Africa. The region’s unique creativity has fueled a vibrant game development scene, helping drive what is quickly becoming one of the most exciting, resilient, and fast-growing gaming markets. It’s a space defined b

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Martin Fowler

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 that forms conclusions, rather one that allows those exploring to share what they’ve found, and their visions for the future. The bliki post lists all the writing I’ve run into on this, by myself and others. I’ll be updat

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DZone

LangChain With SQL Databases: Natural Language to SQL Queries

Every business runs on a database, but not everyone who needs an answer from the database speaks SQL. Data Analysts wait on engineers, and stakeholders wait on analysts, and by the time the query runs, the decision window has passed. LangChain's SQL integration fixes this, translating plain English questions like "Which product category had the highest revenue last year' into valid SQL, executing it, and returning a human-readable answer.

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