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Beyond Generative AI and the Future of Innovation

Dataversity

The power of generative AI (GenAI) seems to have no limits. Every day, we see new barriers being broken and new use cases that no one thought possible. And yet, I can’t help but notice that most of these advances we’re hearing about revolve mostly around content creation. While remarkable in its own right, this begs the […] The post Beyond Generative AI and the Future of Innovation appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Article: Polyglot Programming with WebAssembly: A Practical Approach

InfoQ Articles

WebAssembly has expanded its scope from browsers to other domains like cloud and edge computing. It uses the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM) to enable seamless interaction between libraries from different programming languages, such as Rust, Python, and JavaScript, promoting a true polyglot programming environment.

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Join us at the Iceberg Summit 2024

Cloudera Blog

Apache Iceberg is vital to the work we do and the experience that the Cloudera platform delivers to our customers. Iceberg, a high-performance open-source format for huge analytic tables, delivers the reliability and simplicity of SQL tables to big data while allowing for multiple engines like Spark, Flink, Trino, Presto, Hive, and Impala to work with the same tables, all at the same time.

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Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation with Data and AI: Announcing the 2024 Finalists of the Databricks Data Team Transformation Award

databricks

The Data Team Awards celebrates enterprise data teams' essential role in helping businesses across sectors face their most pressing challenges. With more than.

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Key Moments From Kafka Summit Bangalore: AI Model Inference, Freight Clusters, and More

Confluent

A lookback at all the exciting happenings at our first-ever Kafka Summit Bangalore—and some key announcements, including Confluent Platform for Apache Flink.

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Article: You Don’t Need a CSS Framework

InfoQ Articles

Developers use CSS frameworks to reduce boilerplate, increase quality, and drive consistency. However, these gains are hard to maintain as an application’s codebase matures. Developers must configure and override the framework to accommodate changes. Instead of using a CSS framework, developers should write their own custom CSS. CSS has evolved enough that this became the best option.

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We’ll See You at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit

Cloudera Blog

The Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in London is quickly approaching on May 13 th to 15 th , and the Cloudera team is ready to hit the show floor! The theme of this year’s summit, “Generating Value Together: Creating Synergies between Data, Analytics & AI,” could not have come at a better time as we push forward on our AI and analytics journey together.

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Building Trust in AI Means Building Trust in Data

Confluent

Discover how to build trust in AI by strengthening data and people layers. Learn about risk frameworks, data streaming, and more for effective solutions.

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Article: How to Build and Foster High-performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers

InfoQ Articles

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

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Accelerating Deployments of Streaming Pipelines – Announcing Data in Motion on Kubernetes

Cloudera Blog

Organizations are challenged today to become both more data driven and more nimble to adapt quickly to changing conditions. These challenges are the driving forces behind much of their digital transformation or “modernization” efforts. Digital Transformation is defined as the process of integrating digital technology into all areas of a business to create and capture value in new ways, effectively “datifying” all processes while remaining agile enough to make continuous incremental improvements

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Accelerate GenAI App Development with New Updates to Databricks Model Serving

databricks

Last year, we launched foundation model support in Databricks Model Serving to enable enterprises to build secure and custom GenAI apps on a.

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Unlocking Business Potential: Leveraging Data Protection for Growth and Privacy

Dataversity

Data is undeniably the modern fuel that keeps organizations up and running in the dynamic business landscape. Admit it: Every organization catering to its customers online is handling heaps of customer data, which is collected for various purposes, including marketing and personalization. While most customers may offer their consent to use their personal details, most […] The post Unlocking Business Potential: Leveraging Data Protection for Growth and Privacy appeared first on DATAVERSITY

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Article: Unraveling the Enigma: Debunking Myths Surrounding Lambda Cold Starts

InfoQ Articles

This insightful InfoQ article dispels the common myths surrounding Lambda Cold Starts, a widely discussed topic in the serverless computing community. As serverless architectures continue to gain popularity, misconceptions about Lambda Cold Starts have proliferated, often leading to confusion and misguided optimization strategies.

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HN733: Russ White Hour: IS-IS vs OSPF and a Deep Dive into Ethernet Adapters

Packet Pushers

We turn the nerd meter up to eleven on todays episode with longtime friend of the show, Russ White. First we dive into how an Ethernet adapter knows when a link is lost, where Russ teaches us all about loss of carrier and OAM. He also gives us a tutorial on how the rest of. Read more » We turn the nerd meter up to eleven on todays episode with longtime friend of the show, Russ White.

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Disrupting the Status Quo Through Data and AI: Celebrating the 2024 Data Team Disruptor Award Nominees

databricks

The annual Data Team Awards highlight how diverse enterprise data teams are tackling some of the most prevalent and complex issues facing the.

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MDM vs. CDP: Which Does Your Organization Need?

Dataversity

Most, if not all, organizations need help utilizing the data collected from various sources efficiently, thanks to the ever-evolving enterprise data management landscape. Often, the reasons include: 1. Data is collected and stored in siloed systems 2. Different verticals or departments own different types of data 3. Inconsistent data quality across the organization Implementing a central […] The post MDM vs.

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Confluent Champion: Journey to Regional Director in Tech Sales

Confluent

Find out how regional director Ariel Gan went from sales development representative to regional director in his career in B2B tech sales at Confluent.

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Reinforcing the Pillars of Observability

VIAVI Solutions

Reinforcing the Pillars of Observability The Greek Parthenon is known for the seventeen distinctive marble pillars enveloping the structure. These sturdy columns have remained intact despite over two thousand years of earthquakes, war, looting, and fire. With a slightly less auspicious origin story, the three pillars of observability (logs, metrics, and traces) continue to serve […] The post Reinforcing the Pillars of Observability appeared first on VIAVI Perspectives.

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Building High-Quality and Trusted Data Products with Databricks

databricks

Introduction Organizations aiming to become AI and data-driven often need to provide their internal teams with high-quality and trusted data products. Building.

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The Cool Kids Corner: Data Leadership (and the Importance of TNADVTMADHGI)

Dataversity

Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. Last month we discussed data privacy. This month we’re talking about data leadership. What do we mean by data leadership? What are our challenges […] The post The Cool Kids Corner: Data Leadership (and the Importance of TNADVTMADHGI) appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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SASE for Retail: Growing the Bottom Line

CATO Networks

Retail and hospitality businesses prioritize delivering exceptional customer service and growing revenue. Just as their mission relies on a service-oriented staff and quality products, it also requires secure and reliable connectivity. A high performing and secure network enables retailers to offer consistent and positive consumer interactions across online and physical stores around the world.

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8 product analytics examples

Mixpanel

Product analytics uses product and user behavior data to optimize or iterate on digital product’s design and function. Product analytics platforms track and help analyze this data for trends. Examples of product analytics include analyzing user conversion, activation, and churn data with the intention of improving those metrics. All digital companies have data.

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The Vital Role of Data Governance in Communications, Media and Entertainment

databricks

Discover the vital role of data governance in the communications, media, and entertainment industry. Learn how robust data governance enables personalized experiences, ensures AI transparency, and mitigates compliance risks. Explore how leading companies like Barilla and Anker are accelerating innovation through effective data governance strategies powered by Databricks' Unity Catalog.

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Generic LLMs vs. Domain-Specific LLMs: What’s the Difference?

Dataversity

Large language models (LLMs) are a special type of AI model that uses natural language processing (NLP) to understand and generate text similar to human language. They are a form of generative AI trained on textual data to produce textual content. ChatGPT stands out as a well-known example of generative AI. Trained on massive datasets, LLMs […] The post Generic LLMs vs.

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D2C242: Data Engineering and its Streams, Rivers, and Lakes

Packet Pushers

Keith Gregory teaches us about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand. He explains that the role of a data engineer is to create pipelines to transport data from metaphorical rivers and make it usable for data analysts. Keith walks us through the testing process; the difference between streaming pipelines and. Read more » Keith Gregory teaches us about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand.

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Addressing Vulnerabilities in Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Services

VIAVI Solutions

The need for precision in networks, particularly those that support critical infrastructure, has never been more acute. Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services have become indispensable, enabling precise synchronization and coordination across various sectors such as telecommunication, transportation, energy and finance. At its core, PNT relies on signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) like […] The post Addressing Vulnerabilities in Positioning, Navigation and T

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Cato CTRL Issues New SASE Threat Report

CATO Networks

Threat actors are always evolving. Whether it is nation-state actors, cybercrime groups, ransomware gangs, or niche teams targeting specific systems new tools, techniques, and procedures are constantly introduced by attackers. Stopping those threats is challenging in large part because Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) remains fragmented. Telltale threat indicators are often available but spread across the threat information and network activity of inbound (and outbound) internet traffic, WAN tra

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API | Employee Spotlight: Songthan Lam

Zynga

Songthan Lam Producer, Analytics Based in Austin, Producer Songthan Lam shares what you should never be afraid of, how her parents story of courage and adaptability is deeply connected to her work today and how her love for CSR Racing started long before her career at Zynga. What was your career path to Zynga? It may be surprising to some, but analytics is what brought me to Zynga!

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HS071: The Real Numbers Behind the Return To Office Myths

Packet Pushers

Why are some executives still insisting on Return to Office policies? Does it improve culture and productivity like they swear? Or is it more about the devaluing of a massive asset on their books: Commercial real estate. If the value of commercial real estate drops, companies have less to leverage for loans and perhaps more. Read more » Why are some executives still insisting on Return to Office policies?

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From Resilience to Scale: 12 Mission-Critical Use Cases Backed by CockroachDB

Cockroach Labs

If youve paid a bill online, ordered an item from your favorite ecommerce site, or navigated a series of security steps to verify your identity, then youve interacted with the types of services powered by CockroachDB. Let's discuss 12 common use cases for CockroachDB.

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Mission Critical: Dispatch on Safeguarding Government Data

Dataversity

Personal data has emerged as a coveted asset, drawing attention not just from corporate establishments, but also from foreign actors. This interest has sparked a significant challenge – the legal sale of data to overseas entities, raising concerns about the implications for civilians and military personnel alike. The recent initiative by President Biden underscores the criticality of […] The post Mission Critical: Dispatch on Safeguarding Government Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Introducing Cloudera’s AI Assistants

Cloudera Blog

In the last couple of years, AI has launched itself to the forefront of technology initiatives across industries. In fact, Gartner predicts the AI software market will grow from $124 billion in 2022 to $297 billion in 2027. As a data platform company, Cloudera has two very clear priorities. First, we need to help customers get AI models based on trusted data into production faster than ever.

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PP013: Untangling Managed Security Services

Packet Pushers

Whats the difference between cybersecurity as a service vs. managed vs. hosted? And whats the difference between an MSP and an MSSP? In this episode, JJ helps untangle the terms and concepts in cybersecurity offerings. She explains what questions you should ask vendors to make sure youre picking the right one for your needs; negotiating. Read more » Whats the difference between cybersecurity as a service vs. managed vs. hosted?

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Tech Bytes: Real-Time Network Performance Monitoring with NetBeez (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

Network monitoring is growing increasingly complicated. Companies are facing more distributed applications and more remote employees. NetBeez, our sponsor today, is here to talk about how they monitor network performance in real time for the campus, WAN, and more. From proactively testing networks after configuration changes to identifying how well a workers laptop is connecting.

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NB477: Arista Assembles Switch-Based Microperimeters; FCC Wants More Money for Telcos Dumping Huawei Gear

Packet Pushers

Take a Network Break! This week we cover a new microsegmentation offering from Arista, new GenAI assistants from Fortinet, and a GenAI firewall from Versa Networks to monitor and report on how organizations are using generative AI tools and applications. AWS will stop selling VMware Cloud on AWS (but you can still get it through. Read more » Take a Network Break!