Tag: Data and analytics
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The system design cheat sheet: Relational databases
Posted on March 14, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length long
In system design, relational databases are a traditional choice for data storage, offering structured schema and powerful query capabilities, contrasted with NoSQL databases' flexible schemes and scalability. By Aleksandr Gavrilenko.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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Business intelligence services: Navigating the future of data analytics
Posted on March 10, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
How does a business make key decisions? In a business environment, decisions take place based on evidence and information derived through various operations. A company decides to expand its manufacturing facility to produce more goods when shifts in consumer demand indicate growth. By infomineo.com.
Tags leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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The benefits of event-driven architecture
Posted on March 7, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software design pattern used in microservices or other decoupled services or apps. Each service in the ecosystem can asynchronously publish and subscribe to events via an event broker. By Darryn Campbell.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Introducing WAP pattern support with Apache Iceberg
Posted on February 3, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length long
If you're using SQLMesh alongside Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg, I have some exciting news for you! Starting from version 0.57.0, SQLMesh applies the Write-Audit-Publish (WAP) pattern when executing models using Apache Spark and the Apache Iceberg data format. The best part? No user action is required to enable this behavior - it's enabled by default. By Iaroslav Zeigerman.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design devops-and-ci-cd
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Top 9 Twilio alternatives and competitors in 2024
Posted on January 24, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length long
If you are looking for Twilio alternatives to create better communications for your apps and websites, then here are top nine options to choose from. By Hardik Shah.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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What is a serverless database? Plus 8 picks for 2024
Posted on January 21, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Today, we're diving deep into serverless databases as one solution for aligning these goals. Specifically, we'll check out what they are, how they work, and what benefits they offer. See, when we build any kind of solution, a big portion of the cost is the infrastructure we use to store and host relevant data. This also has an outsized impact on the quality and success of whatever we're building. By Ronan McQuillan.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure
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Eleven good resources to learn SQL and NoSQL
Posted on January 20, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
SQL and NoSQL are in demand, and learning these tech skills can help improve one's career prospects. These skills are essential for developers, data scientists, business analysts, or anyone working in related fields with data. By Durga Prasad Acharya.
Tags data-and-analytics product-and-design architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure backend-development
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Choosing between message queues and event streams
Posted on January 19, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Implementing an event-driven architecture (EDA) is a road riddled with challenges. Among them is choosing the right tooling for the job. Many event-driven tools seem quite similar, at least at first glance, and you'd expect they could be used equally well for the same purposes. But that's often not the case and choosing the solution best suited to your needs can be tricky. By Tun Shwe.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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FinOps sketchnotes: Introducing cloud FinOps
Posted on January 17, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Transitioning to the cloud means more than just migrating your workloads or building innovative new apps. While it's a great first step for your organization, it's just the beginning. To truly maximize the value of your cloud investments requires a fundamental shift in mindset and culture to rethink how your organization operates when imbued with technology. By Eric Lam and Pathik Sharma.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics software-engineering leadership-and-career
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Everything you need to know about Arduino shields
Posted on January 16, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Arduino is a popular open-source electronics platform that has revolutionised the world of DIY projects. With its powerful microcontrollers and versatile programming environment, Arduino allows enthusiasts and professionals alike to bring their creative ideas to life. One of the key features that make Arduino even more powerful is the availability of shields. By Jack Portley.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech how-to ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics software-engineering
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TOPS AI vs. real world performance
Posted on January 10, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Burgeoning machine learning and AI emerging use cases promise to create significant value for industries via accelerated information processing and increased accuracy of decision-making. But machine learning models are compute-intensive, demand high-frequency, and real-time AI analysis scenarios, which has led enterprises to lean on performance guidance using the metric Trillions of Operations Per Second (TOPS). TOPS captures "how many mathematical operations can an accelerator deliver in one second?" to compare and identify the best accelerator for a given inference task. By Rehan Hameed.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning how-to data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Four AI trends small businesses should watch in 2024 and beyond
Posted on December 29, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Until recently, the applications of artificial intelligence have remained in the hands of scientists, engineers and big business. But for the first time in history, anyone with an internet connection and keyboard can harness this technology. AI-powered tools – like OpenAI's ChatGPT – have well and truly captured the public's attention. By Alex von Schirmeister.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics