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Databricks adds new migration Brickbuilder Solutions to help customers succeed with AI

databricks

For the past two years, Databricks has collaborated with leading consulting partners to build innovative solutions for industry, migration, and data and AI.

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Ask a Data Ethicist: Can We Trust Unexplainable AI?

Dataversity

In last month’s column, I asked readers to send in their “big questions” when it comes to data and AI. This month’s question more than answered that call! It encompasses the enormous areas of trust in AI tools and explainability. How can we know if an AI tool is delivering an ethical result if we have […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: Can We Trust Unexplainable AI?

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New with Confluent Platform: Seamless Migration Off ZooKeeper, Arm64 Support, and More

Confluent

Confluent Platform 7.6 brings upgrading for existing clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft, compaction support for Tiered Storage, OAuth (early access), improvements to the Oracle CDC premium connector, and more.

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Article: Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention

InfoQ Articles

This article explores how generative AI affects fraud detection by reducing false positives and dynamically adapting to changing fraud patterns. This combination offers a potent preventive solution when integrated with machine learning. The efficacy and scalability of fraud prevention initiatives are enhanced by this innovative approach.

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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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Accelerating Success with Databricks: A Deep Dive into antuit.ai's Decision and Customer Impact

databricks

In the dynamic realm of AI-driven forecasting, businesses navigate a landscape where strategic choices shape their trajectory. One such pivotal decision was made.

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera Blog

It’s hard to believe it’s been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2007/2008. While this might be a blast from the past we’d rather leave in the proverbial rear-view mirror, in March of 2023 we were back to the future with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the largest US bank to fail since 2008. While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance c

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Experiment Faster and with Less Effort

DoorDash Engineering

Business Policy Experiments Using Fractional Factorial Designs At DoorDash, we constantly strive to improve our experimentation processes by addressing four key dimensions, including velocity to increase how many experiments we can conduct, toil to minimize our launch and analysis efforts, rigor to ensure a sound experimental design and robustly efficient analyses, and efficiency to reduce costs associated with our experimentation efforts.

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Email customer support automation using Databricks LLM platform

databricks

About UK Power Networks UK Power Networks is the largest electricity distributor in the UK. It maintains electricity cables and lines in London.

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Introducing Confluent’s Migration Accelerator: Accelerate Your Journey to a Complete Data Streaming Platform

Confluent

Confluent Migration Accelerator, a new program in partnership with the Confluent partner ecosystem to jump-start organizations' data streaming journeys.

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Article: Multiplying Engineering Productivity in the Face of Constant Change

InfoQ Articles

Leaders know that they need to support organizational efficiency, but how they do that ca vary based on the situation and context of the organization. Learning how to utilize a few key leadership frameworks in certain environments can help maintain the appropriate level of support, urgency, and independence when situations shift.

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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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4 Reasons Businesses Are Implementing Data Management Systems

Dataversity

Enterprises today face the complex challenge of effectively managing an ever-growing, diverse, and rapidly changing trove of data. This reality of handling vast and varied data sets is pivotal for businesses aiming to stay competitive and informed. The strategic management of data is crucial in shaping business success.

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Optimization Strategies for Iceberg Tables

Cloudera Blog

Introduction Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data — structured and unstructured. It offers several benefits such as schema evolution, hidden partitioning, time travel, and more that improve the productivity of data engineers and data analysts.

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HN721: Goodbye Network Cowboys, Hello Total Network Operations

Packet Pushers

The days of network cowboy heroism are over or at least they need to be. Its time for network engineering to grow up and standardize how networks are built. Not only will this make life easier for all of us as we inherit networks when we move from company to company, but its the only. Read more » The days of network cowboy heroism are over or at least they need to be.

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Agent-Based Network Monitoring: Monitoring Distributed Networks

Obkio

Learn all about agent-based network agents: benefits, use cases, and why they're increasingly adopted for distributed networks vs agentless monitoring.

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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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The AI Trust Gap: A Cultural Perspective

Dataversity

Only 52% of employees are confident their organization will ensure AI is implemented in a responsible and trustworthy way, according to Workday’s Closing the AI Trust Gap report. Trust will be key to getting employees engaged in the change needed to realize AI’s full potential. This post will look at what can be done from a cultural perspective.

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How we stay close to customers to create better user personas at Mixpanel

Mixpanel

When you’re deep in product development, it can be surprisingly easy to overlook who you’re making your product for. You may understand the technical nuances of the problems you’re solving or the general trends in your market, but if you can’t truly empathize with the people experiencing those problems, you’ll build a sub-optimal product. This sounds pretty obvious, but understanding your product’s users is often easier said than done, especially when you’re building for multiple different perso

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CloudFactory Eliminates “Head Scratching” with Cato XDR

CATO Networks

More than just introducing XDR today , Cato announced the first XDR solution to be built on a SASE platform. Tapping the power of the platform dramatically improves XDR’s quality of insight and the ease of incident response, leading to faster incident remediation. “The Cato platform gives us peace of mind,” says Shayne Green, an early adopter of Cato XDR and Head of security operations at CloudFactory.

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Internet VPN Performance Troubleshooting For Multi-Site SMBs with Obkio’s Basic Plan

Obkio

Learn how Isothermic, a multi-site manufacturing SMB, used Obkios Network Performance Monitoring Basic Plan to troubleshoot Internet VPN performance.

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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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How AI Tools Like Conversational Intelligence Improve Healthcare Customer Journeys

Dataversity

According to a recent report, a continuous loop of disruptions impacts 20% of customer interactions in healthcare, with nearly half of these disruptions delaying or preventing patient care. However, organizations using conversational intelligence to listen to and analyze the voice of the customer (VOC) are realizing benefits, citing a 25% increase in first-call resolution rates and […] The post How AI Tools Like Conversational Intelligence Improve Healthcare Customer Journeys appeared firs

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Welcome to Network Automation Nerds

Packet Pushers

Hi, I’m Eric Chou, and welcome to the Network Automation Nerds podcast, the newest addition to the Packet Pushers family. This is your audio destination for network engineers and infrastructure professionals who are on a mission to build stronger, more resilient systems through the art of network automation. Join us as we connect with a. Read more » Hi, I’m Eric Chou, and welcome to the Network Automation Nerds podcast, the newest addition to the Packet Pushers family.

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Introducing Cato EPP: SASE-Managed Protection for Endpoints

CATO Networks

Endpoints Under Attack As cyber threats continue expanding, endpoints have become ground zero in the fight to protect corporate resources. Advanced cyber threats pose a serious risk, so protecting corporate endpoints and data should be a high priority. Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPPs) are the first line of defense against endpoint cyber-attacks.

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How to Monitor Network Failover: Fighting Against Downtime

Obkio

Explore the imperative world of network failover in our latest blog post. Learn key strategies, testing methods, and leverage Obkio for resilient networks.

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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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Facing a Big Data Blank Canvas: How CxOs Can Avoid Getting Lost in Data Modeling Concepts

Dataversity

The volume of data now available to businesses continues to grow exponentially. When looking to extract valuable insights into their business’s performance, C-level executives (CxOs) must navigate the big data blank canvas. This requires a strategic approach, in which CxOs should define business objectives, prioritize data quality, leverage technology, build a data-driven culture, collaborate with […] The post Facing a Big Data Blank Canvas: How CxOs Can Avoid Getting Lost in Data Modeling

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D2C233: Pinning Down Private Clouds

Packet Pushers

What are we talking about when we are all talking about private clouds? On-prem? Hybrid? Virtualization? Where does hardware fit into it all and would younger engineers even know what to do with a physical piece of hardware? Driven by Broadcoms acquisition of VMare and the anticipated rising costs of VMare licenses, enterprises are exploring. Read more » What are we talking about when we are all talking about private clouds?

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High Availability (Multi-AZ) for Cloudera Operational Database

Cloudera Blog

Introduction In the previous blog post we covered the high availability feature of Cloudera Operational Database (COD) in Amazon AWS. Cloudera recently released a new version of COD, which adds HA support to Microsoft Azure-based databases in the Cloud. In this post, we’ll perform a similar test to validate that the feature works as expected in Azure, too.

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Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams & Internet Performance for Multi-Site Businesses with Obkio: Isothermic Case Study

Obkio

Discover how Obkio helps Isothermic troubleshoot Microsoft Teams and Internet performance for their multi-site business in this real-life case study.

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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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Hybrid Architectures in Data Vault 2.0

Dataversity

Are you drowning in data? Feeling shackled by rigid data warehouses that can’t keep pace with your ever-evolving business needs? You’re not alone. Traditional data storage strategies are crumbling under the weight of diverse data sources, leaving you with limited analytics and frustrated decisions. But what if there was a better way? A way to […] The post Hybrid Architectures in Data Vault 2.0 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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HS065: Calculating the Value of Telco AIOps (Sponsored)

Packet Pushers

AI and automation are hot topics in telco, but not all projects are created equal in terms of the bottom-line value. We dive into how to calculate total value, and discuss why the area of assurance looks set to generate the most value. We provide key questions to ask when considering what AIOps to add. Read more » AI and automation are hot topics in telco, but not all projects are created equal in terms of the bottom-line value.

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Exploring the Cutting Edge: Current PON Technologies and the Path to 25G and 50G PON

VIAVI Solutions

Introduction In today’s hyper-connected world, the demand for faster and more reliable internet services continues to grow exponentially. Passive Optical Networks (PON) have emerged as a critical technology to meet this demand. PON technologies have evolved significantly in recent years, offering improved speeds, scalability, and efficiency. In this blog post, we will delve into the […] The post Exploring the Cutting Edge: Current PON Technologies and the Path to 25G and 50G PON appe

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Speed Test Feature Updates: Speed Test Metrics, Dashboard Widgets & Minimum Speed

Obkio

Discover exciting new updates to Obkios Speed Tests. Learn more about new Speed Test widgets, metrics and minimum speed thresholds.

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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