databricks
APRIL 11, 2023
Two weeks ago, we released Dolly, a large language model (LLM) trained for less than $30 to exhibit ChatGPT-like human interactivity (aka instruction-following).
Kentik
APRIL 10, 2023
This February marked a grim milestone in the ongoing war in Ukraine. It has now been over a year since Russian forces invaded its neighbor to the west leading to the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. In the past year, we have used Kentik’s unique datasets to show some of the conflict’s impacts on Ukraine’s external internet connectivity, ranging from DDoS attacks and large outages , to the rerouting of internet service in the southern region of Kherson.
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InfoQ Articles
APRIL 7, 2023
This article provides an overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2023, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.
Engineering at Meta
APRIL 6, 2023
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system , is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faster and more efficient. In our internal tests at Meta, we observed that Buck2 completed builds 2x as fast as Buck1. Buck2, Meta’s open source large-scale build system, is now publicly available via the Buck2 website and the Buck2 GitHub repository.
Confluent
APRIL 5, 2023
All the best data streaming resources, tips, and guides to help you learn introductory concepts, streaming architecture basics, common tools and technologies, and more.
Ben Morris
APRIL 13, 2023
We all agree that engineering enablement is important, but platform teams can often be a fig leaf for organisational anti-patterns and overly complex Kubernetes implementations.
databricks
APRIL 30, 2023
Enroll in the introductory course on edX today! The course will begin Summer 2023. New Large Language Model Courses with edX As Large.
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InfoQ Articles
APRIL 6, 2023
There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.
Engineering at Meta
APRIL 13, 2023
WhatsApp has launched a new cryptographic security feature to automatically verify a secured connection based on key transparency. The feature requires no additional actions or steps from users and helps ensure that a conversation is secure. Key transparency solutions help strengthen the guarantee that end-to-end encryption provides to private, personal messaging applications in a transparent manner available to all.
Confluent
APRIL 4, 2023
Machine learning and data streaming are a perfect match, but have diverging tech stacks. How can we overcome the pitfalls of SQL and the gulf between languages?
DoorDash Engineering
APRIL 26, 2023
In the wake of ChatGPT and Generative AI DoorDash is identifying ways this new technology can enhance the customer’s ordering experience on the platform. The company is exploring the use of Generative AI, a subset of Artificial Intelligence that generates novel content based on existing data, and how it can be implemented effectively with consideration for the privacy and security of personal information.
databricks
APRIL 13, 2023
Today, Databricks sets a new standard for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) price and performance. While customers have been using Databricks for their ETL.
Kentik
APRIL 4, 2023
When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. If a solution is cheap, it is probably not very performant or particularly reliable.
InfoQ Articles
APRIL 1, 2023
This article discusses the significance of startup time in cloud-native computing, highlighting challenges for JVM-based apps. It introduces Liberty InstantOn, which boosts startup times using checkpoint/restore technology, offering fast startup without compromising Java capabilities or facing static compilation trade-offs.
Engineering at Meta
APRIL 13, 2023
WhatsApp has launched a new security feature that further helps prevent attackers from using vectors like on-device malware. This security feature, called Device Verification, requires no action or additional steps from users and helps protect your account. This feature is part of our broader work to increase security for our users from the growing threat of malware.
Dataversity
APRIL 25, 2023
In this five-part series, I’m taking a hard look at the common – and costly – mistakes organizations typically make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing,and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looked at why a DIY approach often […] The post Cloud Architecture Mistakes: Inadequate Showback and Chargeback Options Escalate Costs appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Mixpanel
APRIL 26, 2023
We’re always working on making it easier to get started with Mixpanel. But still, it can be hard to know what questions to ask in order to begin analyzing your data. If you’re new to product analytics, the possibilities can seem endless. And even seasoned pros are looking for a way to get to insights faster. If you’re a Mixpanel user, you can try out templates now by clicking the above image.
databricks
APRIL 14, 2023
Today, we are happy to announce the availability of Apache Spark™ 3.4 on Databricks as part of Databricks Runtime 13.0. We extend our s.
Confluent
APRIL 24, 2023
Kafka Summit 2023 brings 60+ sessions, keynotes, and lightning talks, and more from industry leaders. Check out the agenda, highlights, networking events, and more event info.
InfoQ Articles
APRIL 21, 2023
Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left? What can we do to break a grip of the dark side?
Engineering at Meta
APRIL 17, 2023
What the research is: Millisampler is one of Meta’s latest characterization tools and allows us to observe, characterize, and debug network performance at high-granularity timescales efficiently. This lightweight network traffic characterization tool for continual monitoring operates at fine, configurable timescales. It collects time series of ingress and egress traffic volumes, number of active flows, incoming ECN marks, and ingress and egress retransmissions.
Dataversity
APRIL 27, 2023
In an increasingly challenging economic environment, it’s essential that chief information officers (CIOs) take a thoughtful approach to investing capital. The 2023 Gartner® CIO and Technology Executive Survey found that more than half of digital initiatives lag behind leadership expectations, with 59% reporting the initiatives take too long to complete and 52% reporting the initiatives take too […] The post Why CIOs Should Invest in Business Automation appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Mixpanel
APRIL 13, 2023
Companies change as they grow, and that’s no different for us. Today, we’re launching our new brand. And it’s a lot more than a refreshed look. Our last big change was a little over three years ago when we went all in on product-led growth (PLG) to get more people into Mixpanel faster and find the product and business answers they needed. We ripped up the B2B SaaS rules and playbook by rolling out a “show, don’t tell” design in the product; ungating content so you don’t have to fill out fo
databricks
APRIL 26, 2023
One of Lakehouse's outstanding achievements is the ability to combine workloads for modern use cases, such as traditional BI, machine learning & AI.
DoorDash Engineering
APRIL 4, 2023
DoorDash offers our summer interns the opportunity to fully integrate with Engineering teams to get the kind of real industry experience that is not taught in the classroom. This is the third blog post in a series of articles showcasing our 2022 summer intern projects. If you missed the first or second article the links are here and here. You can read about each project below.
InfoQ Articles
APRIL 24, 2023
Software architecture and agility are often portrayed as incompatible. In reality, they are mutually reinforcing - a sound architecture helps teams build better solutions in a series of short intervals, and gradually evolving a system’s architecture helps by validating and improving it over time.
Confluent
APRIL 18, 2023
Steven Zhang is a senior software engineer in the Stream Processing and Analytics organization and is shaping the groundwork for Confluent's upcoming Flink integration.
Dataversity
APRIL 14, 2023
There’s no better time than right now to be a data scientist. Despite recent large-scale layoffs in major tech firms, the future is bright for data managers, analysts, data wranglers, and consultants. In fact, the number of jobs requiring Data Science skills is expected to grow by 27.9% by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor […] The post Five Must-Have Characteristics of Extraordinary Data Scientists appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
TDAN
APRIL 18, 2023
For the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC), I recently concluded a detailed comparison and mapping of the DMM to the DCAM with the Council’s Product Manager, employing the Soladatus modeling tool with its robust model mapping features. As you might expect, it revealed both structural differences, strengths, and gaps in both models.
databricks
APRIL 17, 2023
With all the incredible progress being made in the space of Large Language Models, customers have asked us how they can enable their.
Kentik
APRIL 16, 2023
One of the great successes of software development in the last ten years has been the relatively decentralized approach to application development made available by containerization, allowing for rapid iteration, service-specific stacks, and (sometimes) elegant deployment and orchestration implementations that piece it all together. At scale, and primarily when carried out in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments, these distributed, service-oriented architectures and deployment strategies create a
InfoQ Articles
APRIL 13, 2023
This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle. The aim of a profiler is to obtain information on the program execution so that a developer can see how much time a method executed in a given period.
Confluent
APRIL 12, 2023
As businesses move to meet modern demands, these technologies ensure not only a digital transformation, but data transformation, with new use cases surrounding real-time data.
Dataversity
APRIL 3, 2023
This is a five-part series about the costly mistakes organizations commonly make while building a cloud architecture. Part one explained how organizations moving to the cloud can quickly lose visibility and control over their data processing and detailed how to avoid that mistake. Part two looks at the ways doing it yourself can go wrong. What would […] The post Cloud Architecture Mistakes: The High Costs of a DIY Mindset appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
TDAN
APRIL 18, 2023
Banks – and their data volumes – are at the epicenter of the world’s digital transformation. The pace of change mirrors the velocity, volume, and variety of data within the industry. It is where new products, new markets, and new touchpoints mean new – often cloud-based – ways to do business in financial services.
databricks
APRIL 17, 2023
With over 13 million monthly downloads, MLflow has established itself as the premier platform for end-to-end MLOps, empowering teams of all sizes to.
Kentik
APRIL 18, 2023
A security breach often manifests itself in some sort of performance degradation of services — a slow network, an application that isn’t behaving correctly, or in some scenarios, a complete hard down. But this isn’t always the case. Especially when an attacker is interested in covert data exfiltration, a breach may go unnoticed for weeks, months, or even years.
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