Sat.Jul 15, 2023 - Fri.Jul 21, 2023

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The shared code fallacy: Why internal libraries can be an anti-pattern

Ben Morris

Most internal shared libraries are based on the fallacy that code sharing always makes development more efficient.

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Building your Generative AI apps with Meta's Llama 2 and Databricks

databricks

Today, Meta released their latest state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) Llama 2 to open source for commercial use1. This is a significant development.

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Introducing the Connect with Confluent Partner Program: Supercharging Customer Growth and Extending the Data Streaming Ecosystem

Confluent

Gain the easiest solution for data streaming and increase data flow to your platform through native integrations with Confluent Cloud and 120+ Kafka connectors.

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Article: DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report – July 2023

InfoQ Articles

InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of the topics to pay attention to and help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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

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Bringing HDR video to Reels

Engineering at Meta

Meta has made it possible for people to upload high dynamic range (HDR) videos from their phone’s camera roll to Reels on Facebook and Instagram. To show standard dynamic range (SDR) UI elements and overlays legibly on top of HDR video, we render them at a brightness level comparable to the video itself. We solved various technical challenges to ensure a smooth transition to HDR video across the diverse range of old and new devices that people use to interact with our services every day.

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Never Miss a Beat: Announcing New Monitoring and Alerting capabilities in Databricks Workflows

databricks

We are excited to announce enhanced monitoring and observability features in Databricks Workflows. This includes a new real-time insights dashboard to see all.

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Heavy Networking 691: Why OOB Infrastructure Is Critical For IT Ops & Automation With ZPE Systems (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

On todays Heavy Networking podcast, we look at how sponsor ZPE Systems is rethinking Out-Of-Band management for automated, NetOps-driven infrastructure. This includes tasks like device staging, deployments, upgrades, and more. And you dont just have to take ZPEs word for it; we also talk to a customer whos using the products to run a retail business with a lean networking team that supports more than fifty sites.

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Where Web-Environment-Integrity came from

SysAdmin1138 Explains

Some engineers at Google have put forth a proposal called Web-Environment-Integrity that has the open source community up in arms. The leading criticisms of this proposal are "Google wants to make DRM for websites" and "Google wants to ban ad-blockers." These are catchy headlines intended to capture attention, they're also mostly true. For the people who don't want to wade through the discourse, this post is about what WEI does and where it came from.

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Databricks + MosaicML

databricks

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve completed our acquisition of MosaicML, a leading platform for creating and customizing generative AI models for you.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Visibility for Businesses

Obkio

Learn how to get SD-WAN visibility for businesses using SD-WAN. Get visibility of internal or ISP networks. Measure SD-WAN performance & detect issues.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.

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Cloud Automation à la DDD: From stringly typed to affordances

Architect Elevator

Domain-driven design very much applies to technical domains. Let's try it on event-driven cloud systems to see why I am such a big fan of object-oriented automation languages.

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. This is the new look and feel that we wound up with How did we get there? As part of the engineering team that helped push our new site into the world, I’d love to walk you through it—with a special focus on the way we married a great design vision with the right tech stack to bring it to life.

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Go from Months to Hours with Databricks Marketplace for Retailers

databricks

Let's say a distributor reached out wanting to understand what factors are driving the sale of carbonated beverages from customers in their convenience.

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Real-time Order Notifications: How ACERTUS Drives Customer Updates with Confluent

Confluent

Acertus, the U.S.’s only comprehensive automotive logistics platform, uses Confluent as the backbone of their real-time order notification system.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

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.

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Bard or ChatGPT: Cybercriminals Give Their Perspectives 

CATO Networks

Six months ago, the question, Which is your preferred AI? would have sounded ridiculous. Today, a day doesnt go by without hearing about ChatGPT or Bard. LLMs (Large Language Models) have been the main topic of discussions ever since the introduction of ChatGPT. So, which is the best LLM? The answer may be found in a surprising source the dark web.

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. This is the new look and feel that we wound up with How did we get there? As part of the engineering team that helped push our new site into the world, I’d love to walk you through it—with a special focus on the way we married a great design vision with the right tech stack to bring it to life.

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The Executive’s Guide to Data, Analytics and AI Transformation, Part 7: Move to production and scale adoption

databricks

This is part seven of a multi-part series to share key insights and tactics with Senior Executives leading data and AI transformation initiatives.

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Distributed Tracing in Microservices: A Comprehensive Guide

Dataversity

Today, one of the most popular techniques to achieve high levels of performance and reliability in your software applications is by leveraging the power of microservices architecture. This architectural style breaks down a monolithic application into smaller, more manageable services that can be independently developed, deployed, and scaled. While this approach offers numerous benefits, it […] The post Distributed Tracing in Microservices: A Comprehensive Guide appeared first on DATAVERSIT

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

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

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When Should You Spin Up Your Next Apache Kafka Cluster?

Confluent

Learn when and why to consider expanding to multiple Kafka clusters, plus tools and strategies to manage large cluster operations with federated Kafka governance.

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The new Mixpanel.com: How to marry design with the right tech stack

Mixpanel

Over the past year, the design, brand, and engineering teams at Mixpanel have been working hard on a complete overhaul of how the world experiences us: our website. This is the new look and feel that we wound up with How did we get there? As part of the engineering team that helped push our new site into the world, I’d love to walk you through it—with a special focus on the way we married a great design vision with the right tech stack to bring it to life.

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Simplified Analytics Engineering with Databricks and dbt Labs

databricks

For over a year now, Databricks and dbt Labs have been working together to realize the vision of simplified real-time analytics engineering, combining.

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Demystifying Actionable Insights in Data and Analytics

Dataversity

Every company today is a data company. Organizations worldwide are striving to derive business insights from the enormous amounts of data that are captured and stored to measure and improve business performance. McKinsey found that insight-driven companies report EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) increases of up to 25%.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Day Two Cloud 203: Becoming An SRE – It’s More Than Just Software Skills

Packet Pushers

If you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you need strong software skills. You also have to be versed in observability, incident response, capacity planning, change management, performance, even security. But wait, there's more! Our guest on today's Day Two Cloud argues you need strong communication skills, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and the ability to work with a team.

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Unlocking Dynamic and Futuristic Solutions: AI Development with React

Vedcraft

Table of Contents [Open] [Close] What is React? An Overview of AI Writing React Code with AI Using AI in React Component Examples of AI Development with React AI Models and LLM Platforms/Tools How to Use React for AI Development? Conclusion Related Articles Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword. The global AI market size is likely to reach two trillion USD by 2030.

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Estimating Customer Lifetime Value on the Lakehouse

databricks

In Driving Digital Strategy, Dr. Sunil Gupta points out that “20% percent of your customers account for 200% of your profits.” The implication of.

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The Future of the Firewall is in the Cloud 

CATO Networks

I read with some surprise the interview with Zscalers CEO, Jay Chaudry, in CRN where he stated that the network firewalls will go the way of the mainframe, that the network is just plumbing and that Zscaler proxy overlay architecture will replace it with its application switchboard. Well, our joint history in network security teaches us a very different lesson.

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A Tale of Two Case Studies: Using LLMs in Production

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

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The Best of Kafka Summit London 2023

Confluent

Count down the top 10 highest-rated Kafka Summit London sessions of 2023, based on audience ratings!

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Article: Enhancing Your "Definition of Done" Can Improve Your Minimum Viable Architecture

InfoQ Articles

A Definition of Done describes the criteria that determines whether a software product is releasable. While normally focused on functional aspects of quality, teams can strengthen the quality and sustainability of their products if they expand their DoD to include architectural considerations.

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Databricks and Posit announce new integrations, simplifying Lakehouse access for developers

databricks

Today, Databricks and Posit are thrilled to announce a strategic partnership to provide R and Python developers with an simplified development experience when.

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HS052: Professional Liability and Qualified Design

Packet Pushers

As technology becomes more critical and vital to companies business leaders are beginning to question the reliability and liability. Insurers now require audits and demand complienace with set practices before issuing a policy. Corporate boards are realising that so-called tech professionals have zero training or professional requirement, consultants have even less and the analysts are.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

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