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How to Crush the Spider Benchmark with Ease on Databricks

databricks

How we reached 79.9% on the Spider dev dataset with Llama3 8B through savvy prompting and fine-tuning on Databricks.

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Driving Data Governance: The Role of Data Strategy and Data Literacy Programs

Dataversity

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face increasing pressure to manage and govern their data assets effectively. Data governance plays a crucial role in ensuring that data is managed responsibly, securely, and in accordance with regulatory requirements. One key component and driver of successful data governance is the implementation of a robust data strategy coupled with […] The post Driving Data Governance: The Role of Data Strategy and Data Literacy Programs appeared first on DAT

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Article: How Netflix Ensures Highly-Reliable Online Stateful Systems

InfoQ Articles

Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation. By combining smart and meaningful choices for each of these three components, we can build massively scalable, SLO-compliant stateful services at Netflix.

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What Separates Hybrid Cloud and ‘True’ Hybrid Cloud?

Cloudera Blog

Hybrid cloud plays a central role in many of today’s emerging innovations—most notably artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies that create new business value and improve operational efficiencies. But getting there requires data, and a lot of it. More than that, though, harnessing the potential of these technologies requires quality data—without it, the output from an AI implementation can end up inefficient or wholly inaccurate.

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Unlocking the Potential of Private Data Sharing using Databricks Private Exchanges

databricks

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new feature on the Databricks Marketplace that simplifies the process of setting up private exchanges for.

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In the Age of AI, How Can We Empower Everyone to Automate Work?

Dataversity

From boosting efficiency to making data-driven decisions faster, the benefits of using AI and automation in the workplace are numerous. But understandably, there’s also plenty of apprehension among some team members. According to new research, around 80% of those who work in a digital setting and use AI say that it’s already improving their productivity.

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The Art of Lean Governance: What We Can Learn from HAZMAT Professionals

TDAN

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024, was a tragic loss of life and disruption to the shipping supply chain on a global scale that will take months, if not years, to fully recover.

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Building DBRX-class Custom LLMs with Mosaic AI Training

databricks

We recently introduced DBRX : an open, state-of-the-art, general-purpose LLM. DBRX was trained, fine-tuned, and evaluated using Mosaic AI Training, scaling training to.

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Behind the scenes of Threads for web

Engineering at Meta

When Threads first launched one of the top feature requests was for a web client. In this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig ( @passy ) sits down with Ally C. and Kevin C., two engineers on the Threads Web Team that delivered the basic version of Threads for web in just under three months. Ally and Kevin share how their team moved swiftly by leveraging Meta’s shared infrastructure and the nimble engineering practices of their colleagues who built Threads for iOS and Android.

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Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP

Confluent

Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.

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How to Assess GenAI’s Impact on Your Business

Dataversity

Since the beginning of 2023, generative AI (GenAI) has quickly made a significant impact across an expanding range of industries and applications. In just over a year since its groundbreaking debut, there’s much to celebrate about GenAI – and even more to still uncover and understand. Today, 79% of employees report at least some exposure to AI, […] The post How to Assess GenAI’s Impact on Your Business appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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How a Leading Venture Capital Firm is Building GenAI with Databricks

databricks

Successfully building GenAI applications means going beyond just leveraging the latest cutting-edge models. It requires the development of compound AI systems that integrate.

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Article: Delivering Software Securely: Techniques for Building a Resilient and Secure Code Pipeline

InfoQ Articles

Your CI/CD pipeline can potentially expose sensitive information. Project teams often overlook the importance of securing their pipelines. This article covers approaches and techniques for securing your pipelines.

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Introducing the Connect with Confluent Partner Landscape and Q2 Program Entrants

Confluent

Confluent introduces the CwC partner landscape and new program entrants for Q2 2024.

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How AI Tools Can Help Organizations Maximize Their Enterprise Knowledge

Dataversity

AI and machine learning can be revelatory for organizations inundated with a sea of data and grappling to find ways to generate meaningful insights from it. AI tools help identify patterns and trends within large datasets that are often challenging for humans to discern. These tools can be trained to make predictions based on historical […] The post How AI Tools Can Help Organizations Maximize Their Enterprise Knowledge appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Databricks Is a Glassdoor Best-Led Company in 2024

databricks

Databricks is pleased to announce we are ranked #2 in the inaugural annual Glassdoor Award List of Best-Led Companies in 2024 ! At.

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Eyes on Data: Improving ESG Reporting with Established Industry Standards

TDAN

In today’s rapidly evolving corporate landscape, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has become a focal point for organizations aiming to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices and comply with a growing roster of regulations.

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How Moniepoint transformed financial services for over 2 million businesses in Africa with Confluent

Confluent

Powering 48% of Nigeria's GDP through financial tools, Moniepoint overcame its scaling hurdles with Confluent, from eliminating replication lags to revolutionizing microservices.

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Microservices and AWS RDS Instances: Revolutionizing Application Development

Dataversity

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the demand for flexible, scalable, and independent application deployment is more critical than ever. Microservices architecture has emerged as a game-changer in how developers build and manage applications, allowing for the decomposition of traditional monolithic systems into independently deployable services.

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Research Survey: Productivity benefits from Databricks Assistant

databricks

In the fast-paced landscape of data science and engineering, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become integral for enhancing productivity. We’ve seen many tools.

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Session Replay: Bringing qualitative insights to Mixpanel

Mixpanel

We’re excited to announce Mixpanel Session Replay is now available in beta. Up-level your customer understanding by combining quantitative insights with replays of real-time user clicks. People know and love Mixpanel for easy, fast access to customer journey data at the aggregated level. We’re making it even easier to zoom in and literally see how individuals move through your product.

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Analyzing AWS Audit Logs in Real Time Using Confluent Cloud and Amazon EventBridge

Confluent

Explore the practical applications of using the Destinations EventBridge API to send data in real time to Confluent, enabling a myriad of use cases. In the blog we will focus specifically on real-time analysis of AWS audit logs.

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Data Intelligence: The Key to Empowered People and Decisions

Dataversity

McKinsey analysts predict that enterprise employees will rely on data for almost every decision come 2025. If true, this development would mark a significant departure from the current business modus operandi. According to our research, only 25% of enterprise data professionals believe their organization’s decision-making process is data-backed or strategic.

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Improving Text2SQL Performance with Ease on Databricks

databricks

How we reached 79.9% on the Spider dev dataset with Llama3 8B through savvy prompting and fine-tuning on Databricks.

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HN734: Russ White Hour Part 2: Snowflakes and Network Automation

Packet Pushers

Welcome to the second part of our interview with friend of the podcast, Russ White. We start our conversation with a listener question about VXLAN/EVPN which acts as a springboard for what Russ really thinks about network engineering these days. He defends network snowflakes, championing their power in business use cases. He questions the merit. Read more » Welcome to the second part of our interview with friend of the podcast, Russ White.

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What It Takes to Drive Customer Impact: A Sales Director’s Take

Confluent

Our latest Confluent Champion post features Regional Sales Director Kimia Kia and showcases how she’s driving customer impact.

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Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens When Language Becomes Data?

Dataversity

At a recent presentation for a local post-secondary institution, I fielded a number of questions related to the use of language, primarily English language texts, as training data for generative AI. There were questions around cultural impacts and related ethical concerns. These queries were more nuanced than the usual ones I get around copyright or […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: What Happens When Language Becomes Data?

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Semiconductors on the Data Intelligence Platform

databricks

In the semiconductor industry, research and development tasks, manufacturing processes, and enterprise planning systems produce an array of data artifacts that can be fused to create an intelligent semiconductor enterprise. Through intelligent data use, an intelligent semiconductor enterprise accelerates time to market, increases manufacturing yield, and enhances product reliability.

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IPB151: What Changed Alexandra Huides’ Mind about IPv6

Packet Pushers

Alexandra Huides didnt like IPv6 on her first encounter with it. Today she is globally renowned for spreading the IPv6 gospel and helping AWS customers adopt it. Alexandra joins the show today to share what changed her mind about IPv6 and what she sees change the minds of network engineers every day: Greater client traffic. Read more » Alexandra Huides didnt like IPv6 on her first encounter with it.

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Beyond metrics: How Notion measures the value of its ‘helpful’ content

Mixpanel

All companies produce some kind of content, whether that’s in the form of a blog, videos, or social media posts—but what are most of them really getting out of these efforts? Some teams might be happy with just earning organic website traffic. Others might be getting an occasional click on the “Contact Sales” button. But how can teams know that they’re being truly helpful to customers, prospects, potential partners, and other people consuming their content?

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Microsoft Teams Slowness: How to Solve Microsoft Teams Slow Performance

Obkio

Discover why Microsoft Teams runs slow and learn effective strategies to identify and resolve Microsoft Teams slow performance issues for seamless calls.

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Ford vs. Ferrari vs. Porsche

Architect Elevator

Cultural lessons from a racing movie.

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NAN063: The Team Behind Nautobot (Part 2) – The Benefits of Technical Writing

Packet Pushers

Curious about what it takes to write a technical book as a network engineer? Youre in luck. The team behind Nautobot is also the team behind the book Network Automation with Nautobot: Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking. Jason, Ken, and John tell us about their writing process, timeline, Read more » Curious about what it takes to write a technical book as a network engineer?

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Harnessing the Potential of IoT Data

TDAN

“Big data” refers to data sets that are so complex and large they cannot be analyzed or processed using traditional methods. However, despite the complexity of big data, it has become a major part of our digital-centric society.

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What Causes High Latency in Networks: The Silent Speed Bumps on Your Digital Highway

Obkio

Uncover what causes high latency in your network and how you can troubleshoot. Learn to identify congestion, QoS issues and more causing network delay.

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Lesson 187 - Categorizing Architectural Characteristics (May 20, 2024)

Developer to Architect

There are literally hundreds of architectural characteristics (sometimes called NFRs, or non-functional requirements). As such, it can get quite overwhelming trying to understand what they mean. In this lesson Ill show you a way to categorize architectural characteristics, making it easier to know which ones you might need. While no categorization is perfect, I hope the categories I present in this video will help you betterwrangle the plethora of architectural characteristics.

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HW027: Radiation and Other WLAN Challenges at Nuclear Power Plants

Packet Pushers

Evaluating wireless use cases at a nuclear power plant is a little bit different than your average industrial job, starting with the stripdown to put on plant-provided clothing. Ferney Munoz joins us today to talk about his experience working as a wireless consultant at nuclear power plants. Obviously, radiation interference is a heightened issue, as.