Weekly Updates - Feb 28, 2025

Couchbase announces the general availability of its Quarkus SDK 1.0, offering native integration with the Quarkus framework for improved developer productivity and application performance. A key feature is GraalVM native image generation, resulting in faster startup times and optimized runtime performance. A blog post details integrating Groq's fast LLM inferencing with Couchbase Vector Search for efficient RAG applications. The post compares performance with other LLMs like OpenAI and Gemini, highlighting Groq's speed advantage. Couchbase and NVIDIA are collaborating to accelerate agentic AI application development. Their partnership focuses on supporting NVIDIA AI Enterprise, including its development tools, NeMo framework, and NIM. Capella now supports NIM within its AI Model Services and provides access to the NVIDIA NeMo Framework. The framework aids in data curation, training, model customization, and RAG workflows. This collaboration streamlines the development of enterprise-grade AI applications. The combined efforts aim to boost efficiency and performance in AI application development.