databricks

JANUARY 18, 2024

This is part 1 of a blog series where we look back at the major areas of progress for Databricks SQL in 2023.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2024

Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers on effectively leveraging AI within business operations.

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InfoQ Articles

JANUARY 19, 2024

In this article, authors Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler discuss how prompt engineering techniques can help use the large language models (LLMs) more effectively to achieve better results. Prompting techniques discussed include few-shot, chain-of-thought, self-consistency, and tree-of-thoughts prompting.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 19, 2024

Stressed to the limit and buried under busy work, IT teams were told to “do more with less” in 2023. That meant that despite more shadow IT, more security vulnerabilities, and more questions, these tech pros were equipped with the same resources or fewer. Now, as we look at a new year with new opportunities, […] The post 2024: When IT And AI Collide appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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databricks

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cyber threats and the tools to combat them have become more sophisticated. SIEM is over 20 years old and has evolved significantly in.

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DoorDash Engineering

JANUARY 16, 2024

There have been many benefits gained through DoorDash’s evolution from a monolithic application architecture to one that is based on cells and microservices. The new architecture has reduced the time required for development, test, and deployment and at the same time has improved scalability and resiliency for end-users including merchants, Dashers, and consumers.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 15, 2024

Whenever I give a talk, I always share how much I love Q&A. It’s a real joy to hear what people are curious about and provide resources or share insightful lived experiences as a consultant in the data ethics space. In this line of work, it’s usually not about having tidy, easy answers or the […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: Why Does Data Ethics Matter?

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databricks

JANUARY 16, 2024

This post was written in collaboration with Jason Labonte, Chief Executive Officer, Veritas Data Research In the realm of healthcare and life sciences.

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 18, 2024

At Meta, the quest for faster model training has yielded an exciting milestone: the adoption of Lazy Imports and the Python Cinder runtime. The outcome? Up to 40 percent time to first batch (TTFB) improvements, along with a 20 percent reduction in Jupyter kernel startup times. This advancement facilitates swifter experimentation capabilities and elevates the ML developer experience (DevX).

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Confluent

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Confluent CLI now supports custom plugins to simplify CLI commands, execute dynamic workflows, and boost efficiency. Read a step-by-step guide on how to get started.

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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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Dataversity

JANUARY 19, 2024

Do you know the costs of poor data quality? Below, I explore the significance of data observability, how it can mitigate the risks of bad data, and ways to measure its ROI. By understanding the impact of bad data and implementing effective strategies, organizations can maximize the benefits of their data quality initiatives. Data has become […] The post Putting a Number on Bad Data appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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databricks

JANUARY 18, 2024

Since COVID, countless articles have been written about the "Great Resignation", including in-depth analysis by the World Economic Forum. One key thing this.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 17, 2024

Our 2024 Benchmarks Report explores what average and best-in-class digital product growth looks like in your industry. Get the report now. What is a “great” user acquisition rate for our product? Are we keeping up with industry average retention? What should our marketing performance goals be? All of these questions have one thing in common: reassurance.

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Confluent

JANUARY 16, 2024

Leverage Confluent and streaming data pipelines to orchestrate order fulfillment and enable efficient real-time backend operations.

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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.

Dataversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Fraud techniques, including phishing, vishing, deepfakes, and other scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated – making it easier than ever to perpetuate fraud at scale. This is placing businesses in danger of financial losses, and trust and reputational damage. Now, there’s an alarming trend among organized crime rings that have the potential to defraud enterprises of […] The post AI-Driven Predictive Analytics: Turning the Table on Fraudsters appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2024

Data professionals often talk about the importance of managing data and information as organizational assets, but what does this mean? What is the actual business value of data and information? How can this value be measured? How do we manage data and information as assets?

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Packet Pushers

JANUARY 19, 2024

On todays episode, we discuss networking sources of truth. Thats right, sources of truth, because youre likely to have more than one depending on your environment and your point of view. On LinkedIn, Ethan Banks quoted someone at the AutoCon0 conference who essentially said that the network itself shouldnt be used as a source of. Read more » On todays episode, we discuss networking sources of truth.

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Confluent

JANUARY 16, 2024

Confluent integrates with Pinecone Serverless to enable cost-effective development of highly performant GenAI applications fueled by fully managed data streams.

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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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Dataversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

A dashboard is a visual snapshot of business performance using KPIs (key performance indicators) to help users make smarter, data-driven decisions. An effective dashboard simplifies the visual representation of complex data and helps stakeholders understand, analyze, and present key insights at a glance. At the core, the objective of a dashboard is to make complex […] The post Three Key Commandments of Effective Dashboards appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2024

History taught us that whistleblowers can expose the darkest secrets and wrongdoing of global enterprises, governments and public services; even prime ministers and presidents. Whistleblowers usually have a deep sense of justice and responsibility that drives them to favor the good of the many over their own. Often, their contribution is really appreciated only in hindsight.

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Packet Pushers

JANUARY 17, 2024

We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding your blind spots, diversity in tech (or lack thereof), and more. Let’s get into all the things with Tim! Episode Guest: Tim Banks | Lead Developer Advocate at Dell. Read more » We talk with Tim Banks about a wide range of topics including career development, how to stand out as an interview candidate, building a resume, finding y

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Confluent

JANUARY 17, 2024

Curious how to start building real-time streaming apps with programming languages for Apache Kafka? Explore the latest tutorials, courses, and articles on Kafka languages to jumpstart your journey.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 17, 2024

Seven trends in enterprise storage have been identified for 2024. (Click here for the first four trends in part one.) In part two, we will look at the remaining three trends. This information will help equip you to prioritize and be successful in the new year. Trend: Skills gap in storage calls for an increase […] The post What Trends to Expect in 2024 in Enterprise Storage?

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Obkio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Explore real use cases of how Obkio revolutionizes SMB network monitoring, enhancing efficiency, and delivering top-notch user experiences.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 17, 2024

Wherever you are in your SASE or SSE journey, it can be helpful knowing what other CISOs are doing once they’ve implemented these platforms. Getting started with enhanced security is a lot easier than you might think. With Catos security services being delivered from a scalable cloud-native architecture at multiple global points of presence, the value is immediate.

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Akins IT

JANUARY 17, 2024

Akins IT assists Management Support in migrating their physical server infrastructure to new hardware and enhancing their backup process for improved disaster recovery.

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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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Dataversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

They’ve passed SATs, graduate records exams, and medical licensing exams, and programmers have used them to solve obscure coding challenges in seconds. Undoubtedly, generative AI chatbots’ capabilities are astounding, but this doesn’t mean they get it right every time. Despite their success in providing contextually relevant and, for the most part, accurate answers, can generative […] The post The Promise and Potential of Human-Like Generative AI Chatbots appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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TDAN

JANUARY 17, 2024

Five years ago, the most comprehensive data governance law was passed in the U.S. On January 14, 2019, the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018,” also known as the “Evidence Act,” was passed into law. The Evidence Act requires U.S.

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Wahl Network

JANUARY 16, 2024

The full title of this book is “ Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better ” but felt a little long for the blog post title. ;-) A colleague of mine recommended this book to me after my first public sector project. Originally I had scratched my head around a number of behaviors and decisions that I witnessed in government work.

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Obkio

JANUARY 16, 2024

Learn about VoIP latency, uncovering its impact & mastering strategies for seamless call quality. Elevate performance with Obkio's Network Monitoring tool.

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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

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