https://site.fredlab.dev/contributors/simon-cariou/Recent content in Simon Cariou on FredHugoenCopyright (c) 2020-2024 ThuliteWed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ai-as-an-engineering-partner-and-how-we-stay-in-control/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ai-as-an-engineering-partner-and-how-we-stay-in-control/Fred is a full cloud-native agentic platform: speed and batch layers, Temporal workflows, identity propagation, ReBAC authorization, observability. We use AI assistants — for code, but also for backlogs, RFCs, and PMO tracking. This post is an honest account of the guardrails we built into the repository so that the humans, not the assistants, stay in control of a robust, industrial, maintainable application.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/tabular-data-in-fred-rebac-scoped-parquet-s3-and-duckdb/Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/tabular-data-in-fred-rebac-scoped-parquet-s3-and-duckdb/Fred now treats tabular data like the rest of the corpus: document-scoped, team-aware, and authorization-first. This post explains why the old SQL-store model was limiting, how the new Parquet plus DuckDB runtime works, and what this changes for security, performance, and operations.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/observability-by-design-in-fred-prometheus-opensearch-and-spot/Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/observability-by-design-in-fred-prometheus-opensearch-and-spot/Fred now treats observability as a first-class platform capability. With Spot, users can discover Prometheus and OpenSearch tools over MCP, ask monitoring questions in natural language, generate exact PromQL, and persist audit reports to MinIO-backed storage.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/durable-ai-agents-orchestrating-the-future-with-fred-and-temporal/Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/durable-ai-agents-orchestrating-the-future-with-fred-and-temporal/Fred extends its existing agentic backend with a Temporal-powered execution path for long-running tasks. Workflows remain resilient through retries, heartbeats, and durable state, while agent contracts and tool boundaries stay explicit and portable.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/relationship-based-access-control-in-fred-with-openfga/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/relationship-based-access-control-in-fred-with-openfga/Fred’s backend now ships a ReBAC model powered by OpenFGA. Tags, documents, and resource libraries inherit permissions, groups are first-class, and every check flows through centralized authorization—bringing Drive-like sharing semantics to agentic workflows.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rag-that-pulls-its-weight-how-freds-retrieval-stack-leveled-up/Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/rag-that-pulls-its-weight-how-freds-retrieval-stack-leveled-up/Fred’s latest release strengthens retrieval: Lucene HNSW with cosine, semantic/hybrid/strict modes, corpus/global scope controls, chunk visibility, and attachment summaries injected into context. This post explains the why and the how.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/bront%C3%AB-a-new-content-generator-agent-in-fred/Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/bront%C3%AB-a-new-content-generator-agent-in-fred/Instead of relying on traditional form-based UIs, Brontë guides users step by step in designing complex templates and prompts, ensuring correct formats and properties, and saving them directly to Fred’s knowledge base using MCP.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/mcp-vs-rest-for-rag-in-fred-why-we-run-both/Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/mcp-vs-rest-for-rag-in-fred-why-we-run-both/Fred uses REST for graph-driven RAG (Rico, Rico Pro) and MCP for tool-driven RAG (Dominic). Running both lets us measure latency, reliability, governance, and developer ergonomics—without changing our UI or schemas.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ingest-smarter-not-harder-fred-gets-a-temporal-brain/Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/ingest-smarter-not-harder-fred-gets-a-temporal-brain/Thanks to Temporal, Fred makes document ingestion as reliable as microservices — with automatic retries, fine-grained observability, and custom pipelines for push or pull ingestion. A true game-changer for AI apps.https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/power-aware-kubernetes-with-mcp-and-kepler/Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:30:00 +0200https://site.fredlab.dev/blog/power-aware-kubernetes-with-mcp-and-kepler/Fred can now observe power and energy usage in Kubernetes via MCP and Kepler. This post walks through the setup and shows example visualizations and insights.