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Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Transforming perceptions of tech careers, Cisco and Virgin Media O2 join forces to inspire UK youth, highlighting diverse opportunities and skills development through an impactful event.
Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Transforming perceptions of tech careers, Cisco and Virgin Media O2 join forces to inspire UK youth, highlighting diverse opportunities and skills development through an impactful event.
ByteByteGo
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
✂️Cut your QA cycles down from hours to minutes with automated testing (Sponsored) If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you’re releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf. They get engineering teams to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage and helps them ship 5x faster by reducing QA cycles from hours to minutes.
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Confluent
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
In the final article of this four-part series on Kafka producer and consumer internals, observe the inner workings of brokers as they attempt to serve data up to consumers.
databricks
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
We are thrilled to unveil the finalists for the Databricks Generative AI Startup Challenge , a competition designed to spotlight innovative early-stage startups.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Network Engineering
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Hello everyone, Im currently working on setting up a redundant Layer 2 link using VXLAN over IPsec for a client. The attached diagram illustrates the current network configuration. My objective is to ensure redundancy for the Layer 2 connection by leveraging VXLAN over IPsec. However, I am facing some issues, and I suspect the problem lies with the configuration of the Dell switches.
TDAN
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Data quality issues continue to plague financial services organizations, resulting in costly fines, operational inefficiencies, and damage to reputations. Even industry leaders like Charles Schwab and Citibank have been severely impacted by poor data management, revealing the urgent need for more effective data quality processes across the sector.
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ByteByteGo
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, developers face the constant challenge of building applications that are not only robust and secure but also infinitely scalable. At the heart of this challenge lies a fundamental architectural decision: how to handle the application state. The state is your application's memory—every user session, shopping cart, and authentication token that makes personalized digital experiences possible.
InfoQ Articles
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Architectural Intelligence is the ability to look beyond AI hype and identify real AI components. Determining how, where, and when to use AI elements comes down to traditional trade-off analysis. Like any technology, AI can be used creatively, but inappropriately. Identify if AI makes sense for your use case, then work to use it effectively to meet your needs.
databricks
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
We’re excited to announce a new integration between Databricks Notebooks and AI/BI Dashboards, enabling you to effortlessly transform insights from your notebooks into.
Dataversity
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Digital-first businesses are managing an overwhelming amount of data, and many are struggling to make sense of it all and turn it into meaningful and actionable insights. Customers want fast and more personalized experiences at their fingertips, and real-time analytics is a key tool that companies can use to deliver tailored and responsive user experiences […] The post How Organizations Can Overcome Barriers to Leveraging Real-Time Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
AWS Architecture
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
A good strategy for resilience will include operating with high availability and planning for business continuity. It also accounts for the incidence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods and technical failures, such as power failure or network connectivity. AWS recommends a multi-AZ strategy for high availability and a multi-Region strategy for disaster recovery.
Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
In our recent Cisco AI Readiness Index, we found that only 13% of organizations consider themselves ready to capture AI’s potential, even though urgency is high. Companies are investing, but close to half of respondents say the gains aren’t meeting expectations. Here’s how organizations can get themselves better prepared.
ByteByteGo
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
📅Meet your EOY deadlines – faster releases, zero quality compromises (Sponsored) If slow QA processes and flaky tests are a bottleneck for your engineering team, you need QA Wolf. Their AI-native platform , backed by full-time QA engineers, enables their team to create tests 5x faster than anyone else. New tests are created in minutes and existing tests are updated almost instantaneously. ✔️Unlimited parallel test runs ✔️15-min QA cycles ✔️
InfoQ Articles
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Explore the power of reactive programming for building scalable real-time notification systems. Using Spring Boot Reactive and Spring WebFlux, leverage non-blocking operations to handle high-volume, asynchronous data flows efficiently. Discover how Redis Pub/Sub enables event-driven messaging and how the SSE protocol provides persistent connections for instant client updates without polling.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
databricks
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
We’re excited to announce that materialized views (MVs) and streaming tables (STs) are now Generally Available in Databricks SQL on AWS and Azure.
Dataversity
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In recent years, a large number of businesses have jumped on the wave and moved their applications and data to the cloud, with nine out of 10 IT professionals considering the cloud a cornerstone of their digital strategy. While the cloud can offer flexibility, the reality is managing cloud expenses and resulting security liabilities have become significant […] The post The Rise of Cloud Repatriation in Storage Solutions appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Slack Engineering
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Introduction Slack handles a lot of log data. In fact, we consume over 6 million log messages per second. That equates to over 10 GB of data per second! And it’s all stored using Astra, our in-house, open-source log search engine.
Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Explore Cisco Black Belt Distribution Academy's new updates! Enhance your skills with role-based enablement, new content, and a streamlined learning experience, empowering distributors to excel in supporting Cisco technologies.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
ByteByteGo
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The demand for high-speed, high-performance applications has skyrocketed in recent years. With users expecting real-time responses, especially in sectors like e-commerce, finance, gaming, and social media, even a few milliseconds of delay can lead to a poor user experience, potentially impacting customer satisfaction and revenue. One core technique to accelerate data retrieval and improve application responsiveness is caching.
InfoQ Articles
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The challenges in building modern, reliable, and understandable distributed systems continue to grow, and cell-based architecture is a valuable way to accept, isolate, and stay reliable in the face of failures. Organizations must ensure that the cell-based architecture is the right fit for them and that the migration will not cause more problems than it solves.
databricks
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI, powered by the open-source Delta Sharing standard. Since the release of Databricks.
Confluent
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Confluent’s CwC partner program introduces bidirectional data streaming for SAP Datasphere, powered by Apache Kafka and Apache Flink; CwC Q4 2024 new entrants.
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Dataversity
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
In today’s digital world, data is the most critical enterprise asset. Data is required to run software, drive business intelligence, and deliver new functionality. Consequently, companies have tried to hoard as much data as possible. In fact, data has become known as “the new oil,” among many. This sentiment, however, is misleading. Data is not […] The post Data Is Not the New Oil: It’s More Like Uranium appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Cisco has integrated the Isovalent platform into our infrastructure to ensure our cloud workloads are protected without compromising on performance.
ByteByteGo
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Our new book Generative AI System Design Interview is available on Amazon! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞? - An insider’s perspective on what interviewers are truly looking for and why. - A 7-step framework to help you tackle GenAI system design interview questions. - 10 real-world GenAI system design questions with in-depth solutions. - 280+ diagrams to demystify complex GenAI systems. 𝐓𝐚𝐛
InfoQ Articles
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.
Speaker: Tony Karrer, Ryan Barker, Grant Wiles, Zach Asman, & Mark Pace
Join our exclusive webinar with top industry visionaries, where we'll explore the latest innovations in Artificial Intelligence and the incredible potential of LLMs. We'll walk through two compelling case studies that showcase how AI is reimagining industries and revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Some takeaways include: How to test and evaluate results 📊 Why confidence scoring matters 🔐 How to assess cost and quality 🤖 Cross-platform cost vs. quality tr
databricks
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
The Databricks Serverless compute infrastructure launches and manages millions of virtual machines (VMs) each day across three major cloud providers, and it is.
Tech Blog - eBay Inc.
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Just in time for Christmas, eBay’s “Listings in Lights” delivers an immersive holiday shopping experience, making it easier than ever to shop pre-loved presents eBay has announced the launch of “Listings in Lights,” an immersive display in the heart of London that promotes private selling and lets people shop pre-loved items across luxury, fashion, home, tech, and toys, from eBay sellers across the UK.
Dataversity
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
The recent meltdown of 23andme and what might become of their DNA database got me thinking about this question: What happens to your data when a company goes bankrupt? To say the past year has been a tough one for 23andme is an understatement. This latest turn of events, which involves infighting between management and […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens to Your Data When a Company Goes Bankrupt?
Cisco Wireless
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Cisco and Tele2 IoT are expanding their partnership to jointly develop new features for the IoT Control Center and other solutions within the Cisco Mobility Services Platform, aiming to empower businesses to maximize their IoT investments. This collaboration focuses on enhancing connectivity and driving digital transformation across industries, marking a significant advancement in IoT technology.
Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo
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