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MARCH 27, 2024

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Dataversity

MARCH 29, 2024

Instead of celebrating World Backup Day 2024 for accomplishing another year of successful backups, I recommend using it to look forward to a year of testing recovery. Instead of starting data protection strategies by planning backups, organizations should flip their mindset and start by planning recovery: What data needs to be recovered first? What systems […] The post World Backup Day Is So 2023 – How About World Data Resilience Day?

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Arista Networks

MARCH 25, 2024

As we all recover from NVIDIA’s exhilarating GTC 2024 in San Jose last week, AI state-of-the-art news seems fast and furious. Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPU announcement and Meta’s blog validating Ethernet for their pair of clusters with 24,000 GPUs to train on their Llama 3 large language model (LLM) made the headlines. Networking has come a long way, accelerating pervasive compute, storage, and AI workloads for the next era of AI.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 26, 2024

Meta’s family of apps serves trillions of image download requests every day. And if you’re into high-quality images, you’ve probably noticed that Instagram and Threads have added support for high dynamic range (HDR) photos. Now people on Threads and Instagram can upload and share images that are more true-to-life, with the full color and range their device is capable of capturing.

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databricks

MARCH 27, 2024

Databricks’ mission is to deliver data intelligence to every enterprise by allowing organizations to understand and use their unique data to build their.

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Dataversity

MARCH 25, 2024

As shared in part one of this installment, the global marketplace faces an increasingly destructive cyber risk landscape each year, and 2024 is set to confirm this trend. The cost of data breaches alone is expected to reach $5 trillion, a growth of 11% from 2023. As technology advances, attackers continue to develop new, more sophisticated methods […] The post Future-Proof Your Cyber Risk Management with These Top Trends in 2024 (Part II) appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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DoorDash Engineering

MARCH 27, 2024

Real-time event processing is a critical component of a distributed system’s scalability. At DoorDash, we rely on message queue systems based on Kafka to handle billions of real-time events. One of the challenges we face, however, is how to properly validate the system before going live. Traditionally, an isolated environment such as staging is used to validate new features.

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databricks

MARCH 26, 2024

By Steve Sobel - Global Industry Leader; Communications, Media & Entertainment Today Databricks and Adobe are excited to announce a strategic partnership focused.

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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 27, 2024

Only doing product-led work can lead to an unmaintainable system with lots of downtime. Unfortunately, getting time to work on the things that would prevent that can be challenging. Engineering roadmaps balance many competing demands, and the people making the decisions aren’t always the closest to the code. There is a need to learn how to speak their language.

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Cloudera Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

At a time when AI is exploding in popularity and finding its way into nearly every facet of business operations, data has arguably never been more valuable. More recently, that value has been made clear by the emergence of AI-powered technologies like generative AI (GenAI) and the use of Large Language Models (LLMs). But, even with the backdrop of an AI-dominated future, many organizations still find themselves struggling with everything from managing data volumes and complexity to security conc

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Confluent

MARCH 26, 2024

Use Confluent data streaming platform to proactively identify and resolve network issues for greater customer satisfaction and cost savings.

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databricks

MARCH 28, 2024

Databricks Runtime 14.3 includes a new capability that allows users to access and analyze Structured Streaming 's internal state data: the State Reader.

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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 25, 2024

In this article Diwan shared how the Netflix membership team does distributed systems: the architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics that serve the needs of Netflix’s ever-growing member base.

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Cloudera Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

The ongoing progress in Artificial Intelligence is constantly expanding the realms of possibility, revolutionizing industries and societies on a global scale. The release of LLMs surged by 136% in 2023 compared to 2022, and this upward trend is projected to continue in 2024. Today, 44% of organizations are experimenting with generative AI, with 10% having already implemented it in operational settings.

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Dataversity

MARCH 25, 2024

Like any new technology, a lot of people are keen to use generative AI to help them in their jobs. Accenture research found that 89% of businesses think that using generative AI to make services feel more human will open up more opportunities for them. This will force change – Accenture also found that 86% […] The post Getting Ahead of Shadow Generative AI appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

MARCH 29, 2024

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Notebooks on SQL warehouses. Databricks SQL warehouses are SQL-optimized compute that provide.

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InfoQ Articles

MARCH 26, 2024

Aayush Mudgal describes how Pinterest serves advertisements. He discussed in detail how Machine Learning is used to serve ads at large scale. He went over ads marketplaces and the ad delivery funnel, the ad serving architecture , and two of the main problems: ads retrieval and ranking. Finally he discussed some of the challenges and solutions for training and serving large models.

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Cloudera Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

Meet Cloudera’s new Senior Vice President of Global Communications, Jess Hohn-Cabana. In this Employee Spotlight, we’ll get to know more about Jess, her new role, and her recent award win at the 2024 Ragan Top Women in Communications Awards. Get to Know Jess: A Seasoned Leader in Tech Communications and Branding Coming to Cloudera with nearly three decades of experience in tech communications and branding, Jess is a leader and a visionary on all things storytelling.

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Dataversity

MARCH 27, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Woebot Health made the news recently for some of its disastrously flawed artificial bot responses to text messages that were sent to it mimicking a mental health crisis. Woebot, which raised $90 million in a Series B round, responded that it is not intended for use during crises. Company leadership woefully […] The post How Artificial Intelligence Will First Find Its Way Into Mental Health appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

MARCH 29, 2024

Overview In the competitive world of professional hockey, NHL teams are always seeking to optimize their performance. Advanced analytics has become increasingly important.

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Confluent

MARCH 26, 2024

In this guide, you will learn how to track events in a large codebase like GitHub using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams.

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Packet Pushers

MARCH 29, 2024

Where there are containers, there is networking. Today we dig into the networking that underlies Kubernetes, the open source orchestration platform for container-based applications. Our guest Karim El Jamali takes us through the essential concepts: Nodes, pods, clusters, CNIs, virtual ethernet pairs, ingress controller, eBPF, and service meshes. As container-based applications grow in popularity, its.

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Dataversity

MARCH 28, 2024

In today’s fast-moving investment world, corporate and insurance asset owners are operating in the dark, hindered by the absence of a standardized industry benchmark for an overall asset performance assessment. Asset owners usually have many other responsibilities beyond managing portfolio strategies, affecting their ability to allocate time to comprehensively evaluate and optimize the performance of […] The post Unveiling the ROI Dilemma: How Data Blind Spots Impact Asset Owners’ Bottom L

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databricks

MARCH 26, 2024

As new Generative AI capabilities continue to emerge with heightened customer expectations, data modernization and migration to the cloud have become critical success.

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Confluent

MARCH 27, 2024

Our Women’s History Month special Confluent Champion post highlights how Solutions Architect Smriti Sridhar helps drive Women in Tech initiatives.

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UML Zone

MARCH 29, 2024

Stefan Hofer and Ashley Peacock explore various diagrams-as-code approaches, focusing on PlantUML, Structurizr, and Mermaid diagramming tools. Ashley emphasizes Mermaid’s GitHub integration and syntax similarities with PlantUML, making migration seamless. Structurizr’s specialization in the C4 model and its unique DSL is highlighted. The conversation touches on the ease of code refactoring using Mermaid, making it […] The post Creating Software Architecture with Modern Diagramm

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Dataversity

MARCH 26, 2024

Writing data to an AWS data lake and retrieving it to populate an AWS RDS MS SQL database involves several AWS services and a sequence of steps for data transfer and transformation. This process leverages AWS S3 for the data lake storage, AWS Glue for ETL operations, and AWS Lambda for orchestration. Here’s a detailed […] The post Integrating AWS Data Lake and RDS MS SQL: A Guide to Writing and Retrieving Data Securely appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

MARCH 25, 2024

With the releases of Apache Spark 3.4 and 3.5 in 2023, we focused heavily on improving PySpark performance, flexibility, and ease of use.

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Confluent

MARCH 25, 2024

Discover key organizational and technological considerations to successfully implement a data mesh. Download the new ebook for details.

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Obkio

MARCH 29, 2024

Lost packets? No problem! Follow our guide and master the art of troubleshooting packet loss and say goodbye to network issues for good!

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Mixpanel

MARCH 29, 2024

Most companies, whether they have a mature data or product organization or not, are already doing some form of A/B testing. But there are many ways to get it wrong when reaching for an A/B testing solution. In my time as an account manager at an A/B testing tool company, and now at Mixpanel, an analytics platform that integrates with all the best testing tools, the biggest mistake I’ve seen teams make is to try to use an “all-in-one” solution.

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Network Engineering

MARCH 28, 2024

I am trying to determine exactly why GR timers are recommended to be less than HOLDTIME timers Per RFC4724: A suggested default for the Restart Time is a value less than or equal to the HOLDTIME carried in the OPEN. and When the Receiving Speaker detects termination of the TCP session for a BGP session with a peer that has advertised the Graceful Restart Capability, it MUST retain the routes received from the peer for all the address families that were previously received in the Graceful Restart

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CATO Networks

MARCH 28, 2024

Cato XDR breaks the mold: Now, one platform tackles both security threats and network issues for true SASE convergence. SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge , represents the core evolution of todays enterprise networks converging network and security functions into a single, unified, cloud-native architecture. Today’s global work-from-anywhere model amplifies this need for IT to have centralized management of both network connectivity and comprehensive security.

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Obkio

MARCH 28, 2024

Learn about what a traceroute is, how traceroutes work, how to read a traceroute, and how they help network engineers troubleshoot network issues.

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Packet Pushers

MARCH 27, 2024

Life isnt easy for someone looking for a job in tech. There are lots of content mills pushing the idea that if you just pass this one six-month course, youll have a six-figure career in no time. There are lots of hiring companies who make job applicants jump through a ton of hoops, but often. Read more » Life isnt easy for someone looking for a job in tech.

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VIAVI Solutions

MARCH 27, 2024

Open RAN has been actively in development since 2018. The O-RAN ALLIANCE today includes 32 operator members and 278 vendor and academic contributors. In 2023, Open RAN was the subject of much debate about its viability, but two major developments in the second half of the year put concerns to rest. First, the O-RAN ALLIANCE […] The post Announcing The NITRO Wireless Open RAN Test Suite 2024 appeared first on VIAVI Perspectives.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 29, 2024

The Need for Speed The rapidly evolving technology and digital transformation landscape has ushered in increased requirements for high-speed connectivity to accommodate high-bandwidth application and service demands. Numerous use cases, such as streaming media, internet gaming, complex data analytics, and real-time collaboration, require we go beyond todays connectivity trends to define new ones.

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