Sat.Jan 28, 2023 - Fri.Feb 03, 2023

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Creating Health Plan Price Transparency in Coverage With the Lakehouse

databricks

What is price transparency and what challenges does it present? In the United States, health care delivery systems and health plans alike are.

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Wifi solution to connect two warehouses on to same network

Network Engineering

Ive just acquired a second warehouse however its approx 100m from my current one. To save me the headache of having two wifi systems whats the best solution to bring my current wifi network into my new warehouse? Theyre not overly large warehouses so I dont need to start bringing in professionals to do it as that would be a bit ott. Install an Ethernet cable from one building to the other?

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Understanding PasswordLastSet and PwdLastSet Using PowerShell

Faris Malaeb

In Active Directory (AD), the PasswordLastSet and pwdLastSet attributes refer to the same property of an AD object – the time and date when the password for that object was last changed. This attribute is used to enforce password policies and track when a password was last changed. This quick post helps you understand these. The post Understanding PasswordLastSet and PwdLastSet Using PowerShell appeared first on Faris Malaeb.

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How We Reduced Our iOS App Launch Time by 60%

DoorDash Engineering

App startup time is a critical metric for users, as it’s their first interaction with the app, and even minor improvements can have significant benefits for the user experience. First impressions are a big driver in consumer conversion, and startup times often indicate the app’s overall quality. Furthermore, other companies found that an increase in latency equals a decrease in sales.

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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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Five Challenges CIOs Need to Overcome in the New Year

databricks

As IT leaders kick off the new year during one of the most tumultuous times in recent history, CIOs are being forced to.

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Best Practices for Enriching Network Telemetry to Support Network Observability

Kentik

Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. To be successful, you need to collect network telemetry , and that telemetry needs to be extensive and diverse. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it.

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Asynchronous computing at Meta: Overview and learnings

Engineering at Meta

We’ve made architecture changes to Meta’s event driven asynchronous computing platform that have enabled easy integration with multiple event-sources. We’re sharing our learnings from handling various workloads and how to tackle trade offs made with certain design choices in building the platform. Asynchronous computing is a paradigm where the user does not expect a workload to be executed immediately; instead, it gets scheduled for execution sometime in the near future without blocking the la

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Introducing Upgrades to Databricks Notebooks - New Editor, Python Formatting, and More

databricks

Databricks Notebooks offers a simple, unified environment for anyone building Data and AI products. Today we are excited to introduce updates to the.

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Article: If Twitter Doesn’t Have a Staging Environment, Should Anyone?

InfoQ Articles

With Twitter revealing they do not have a staging environment, how important is staging to delivering quality? When so many tasks are shifting to the developer these days and no one best developer approach fits all, how do dev teams determine the best developer methodology for them and their company?

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2023 Predictions: Breakthroughs Incoming for AI and Data Science

Dataversity

Surprising though it may sound, most AI business applications remain rudimentary. Some industry spectators believe the market is flush with cutting-edge AI breakthroughs. But in truth, many providers mislabel rules-based tools – including robotic process automation (RPA) – as AI and ML. Seasoned DevOps teams and software engineers know that RPA – although useful in […] The post 2023 Predictions: Breakthroughs Incoming for AI and Data Science appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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Machine Learning to Improve SEO Performance

TDAN

For the larger part of my SEO career, I was leading a team of a dozen marketing specialists working on multiple SaaS or affiliate projects. At one point, I asked myself whether I could utilize my data science expertise to get better marketing results.

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Using Abandoned Cropland for Carbon Sequestration: a Data-driven Approach

databricks

This is a collaborative post from Databricks and MIT. We thank Cesar Terrer, Assistant Professor at MIT, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE).

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Los Angeles DJ Jae Murphy Curates a Soundtrack to Black History Month

Eventbrite

Before Jae Murphy became an in-demand DJ, he was a host known for working the room at comedy showcases, dance competitions, and fraternity parties on campus at Howard University, where he studied broadcast journalism.

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Data Drift vs. Concept Drift: What Is the Difference?

Dataversity

Model drift refers to the phenomenon that occurs when the performance of a machine learning model degrades with time. This happens for various reasons, including data distribution changes, changes in the goals or objectives of the model, or changes to the environment in which the model is operating. There are two main types of model drift that […] The post Data Drift vs.

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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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A Step Ahead: Federated Data Stores

TDAN

Government systems produce and store a large amount of data daily. Government leaders want to utilize this data to make decisions faster and more efficiently. It is nearly impossible to make well-informed decisions if that data is not visible, accessible, organized, and cannot be seamlessly discovered across the enterprise.

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Announcing Support for Enhanced Fan-Out for Kinesis on Databricks

databricks

Historically, conventional wisdom held that stream processing is the domain of strictly low latency, operational use cases like sub-second inventory updates on an.

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Article Series: PHP 8.x

InfoQ Articles

PHP continues to be one of the most widely used scripting languages on the web with 77.3% of all the websites whose server-side programming language is known using it according to w3tech. PHP 8 brings many new features and other improvements, which we shall explore in this article series.

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Heavy Networking 664: Semantic Networking – Science Project Or Networking’s Future?

Packet Pushers

Today's Heavy Networking is a forward-looking episode about semantic networking. Semantic networking aims to make decisions on how to route packets based on more than just the destination address and give network operators more routing choices based on considerations such as bandwidth, cost, performance, application type, and so on. But how do you add semantic information to IP headers?

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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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The Art of Lean Governance: Data Inventory Optimization

TDAN

Data inventory optimization is about efficiently solving the right problem. In this column, we will return to the idea of lean manufacturing and explore the critical area of inventory management on the factory floor. More and more firms are implementing lean inventory management techniques to reduce costs, improve flexibility and focus more on their customers.

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Announcing Multi-Cloud support for Security Analysis Tool (SAT)

databricks

Last November, we announced the availability of the Security Analysis Tool (SAT) for AWS on our blog. Today we are excited to announce.

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Article: Designing for Concurrency: the Hilbert’s Hotel Problem in Go

InfoQ Articles

In this article, we want to show how achieving concurrency is the result of an appropriate design. A concurrent solution may turn out to be more elegant and easier to reason about than an equivalent sequential algorithm. To illustrate these concepts we use, as an example, the Hilbert’s Hotel mathematical problem.

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Diverting DDoS traffic using the FlowSpec redirect via VRF capability. Configuration example.

Noction

In this article, we will explain the configuration of the FlowSpec controller and client on Cisco devices using the reference topology.

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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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2023 Kick Off Party

Akins IT

What better way to celebrate the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 than with a kick off party!? Being a remote workforce, Akins IT believes in the benefits of getting our employees together once a month for quality team building. Social gatherings ignite a human connection that just can't be done virtually. These face-to-face interactions allow our employees the opportunity to create stronger relationships with one another, which in turn, creates a healthy team!

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Design Patterns for Batch Processing in Financial Services

databricks

Introduction Financial services institutions (FSIs) around the world are facing unprecedented challenges ranging from market volatility and political uncertainty to changing legislation and.

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Article: Your Tech Stack Doesn’t Do What Everyone Needs It To. What Next?

InfoQ Articles

Stack extensibility is an essential trait of well-designed IT ecosystems. Low-code BPA (Business Process Automation) has advantages that puts it at the forefront of approaches to stack extensibility. Learn how low-code software increases process resiliency by empowering business teams with an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and, most of all, IT-sanctioned set of tools.

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How to Use Information Management to Secure a Competitive Advantage

Dataversity

That old saying “knowledge is power” is one that all of us are very familiar with, whether it’s from work, school, or life. Gaining that insight or competitive edge by accessing and consuming information can help everyone make better-informed opinions and decisions and improve potential outcomes. But as more and more data is saved and […] The post How to Use Information Management to Secure a Competitive Advantage appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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How SASE is Transforming the Manufacturing Industry

CATO Networks

The manufacturing industry is constantly evolving. The revolution known as Industry 4.0 is introducing new technologies and innovations that are accelerating digitization and improving efficiency and productivity. One of these new innovations technologies is SASE (Secure Access Service Edge). What is SASE? SASE is an enterprise networking and security category that converges network and security technologies into a single, cloud-native service.

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Day Two Cloud 180: Understanding AWS EC2 At The Edge

Packet Pushers

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, we speak with Jan Hofmeyr, a VP within Amazon Web Services (AWS). This show was recorded at AWS re:Invent 2022 in Las Vegas, and we discuss EC2 at the edge, AWS Outposts and how local zones work, connecting Outposts to the AWS cloud, and more. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, we speak with Jan Hofmeyr, a VP within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Article: Accessing.NET gRPC Endpoints from Anywhere via JSON Transcoding

InfoQ Articles

JSON transcoding is a feature that has been added to gRPC in.NET 7. It allows gRPC endpoints to be accessible via a REST API, and it's much easier to set up than any alternative technology available at the time of writing, such as gRPC-Gateway and gRPC-Web.

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What Causes Packet Loss: Reasons Why Your Data is Going MIA

Obkio

Learn about the common causes of packet loss to quickly identify & resolve network issues & minimize the impact on network performance and businesses.

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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