Tag: Data and analytics
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How data blending is leveling the playing field in online marketing
Posted on October 25, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Online marketing today is about successfully manage your social media marketing, social media advertising, PPC ads, email campaigns - if you're not careful, it can feel like throwing spaghetti at the wall just to see what works. Fortunately, data analysis and - more specifically - data blending can make your marketing decisions faster and easier to make, with more impact. By Zac Johnson.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 Introduction
Posted on October 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this blog series, we would like to introduce you gently to the topic on which we were working over last 2 years. Improving how InnoDB locks data (tables and rows) in order to provide illusion to clients that their queries are executed one after another, while in reality there is a lot of concurrency. By Kuba Łopuszański.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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Zero downtime on MySQL schema change
Posted on October 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Have you ever deployed a feature which interrupted your application because the schema change on the MySQL database has locked the table? Then I have good news for you! There are some tools like the Percona Toolkit which can apply the operation without a downtime. By Michi Lehr.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd software-engineering
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MQTT vs SSE
Posted on October 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Building a real-time web or mobile application is a bit more challenging than building a standard service. That's because the protocol you choose to deliver data from the server to the client — and back — will have a significant impact on the overall experience. By Kieran Kilbride-Singh.
Tags architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics product-and-design
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Kafka with Java: Build a secure, scalable messaging app
Posted on October 16, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Today's users expect your app to be accessible from their computer, mobile phone, tablet, or any other device! This transition to Software as a Service (SaaS) as the norm requires developers to effectively integrate with robust tools that scale to handle thousands (or even millions) of requests every second. Apache Kafka is one of the most effective tools for handling those high throughput environments. By Daniel Pereira.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics backend-development security-and-privacy
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As AI chips improve, is TOPS the best way to measure their power?
Posted on October 14, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
About the challenge of evaluating AI chip performance using "TOPS", a metric that means trillions of operations per second, or "tera operations per second". By Jeremy Horwitz.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering
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AWS NoSQL: Choosing the best option for you
Posted on September 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
NoSQL databases enable you to store data with flexible schema and a variety of data models. These databases are relatively easy for developers to use, and have the high performance and functionality needed for modern applications. NoSQL databases can hold large volumes of data while still providing low latency. By Yifat Perry.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career architecture-and-apis
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Building your own serverless functions with k3s and OpenFaaS on Raspberry Pi
Posted on September 6, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In recent years, lots of new programming paradigms have emerged – going from monolithic architectures towards microservices and now serverless functions. As a result, less code needs to be deployed, and updating an application becomes easier and faster as only a part has to be built and deployed. By Andreas Muttscheller.
Tags architecture-and-apis devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Tutorial: Deploying TensorFlow models at the edge with NVIDIA Jetson Nano and K3s
Posted on September 5, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Janakiram MSV put together this tutorial about TensorFlow models. We will explore the idea of running TensorFlow models as microservices at the edge. Jetson Nano, a powerful edge computing device will run the K3s distribution from Rancher Labs. It can be a single node K3s cluster or join an existing K3s cluster just as an agent.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Apple is pouring resources & money into a new search engine
Posted on September 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Changes in Spotlight Search on iOS and iPadOS 14 beta, a significant update to its Applebot support page, and an increase in crawling from AppleBot signify that Apple may be launching a search engine soon. By Jon Henshaw.
Tags software-engineering miscellaneous architecture-and-apis leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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US begins $1 billion quantum computing plan to get ahead of 'adversaries'
Posted on August 30, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The government is funding basic research in AI, too. When big technologies like mobile phones, 5G networks and e-commerce arrive, it's important to get in on the ground floor. That's why the US government is establishing 12 new research centers, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars, to boost artificial intelligence and quantum computing. By Stephen Shankland @cnet.com.
Tags how-to cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering
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How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?
Posted on August 29, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine. By Stephen Ornes.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech software-engineering