The Pragmatic Engineer
MAY 11, 2023
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened. Originally published on 11 May 2023. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of six topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue.
Seattle Data Guy
MAY 8, 2023
If you’re relying on your OLTP system to provide analytics, you might be in for a surprise. While it can work initially, these systems aren’t designed to handle complex queries. Adding databases like MongoDB and CassandraDB only makes matters worse, since they’re not SQL-friendly – the language most analysts and data practitioners are used to.… Read more The post OLTP Vs OLAP – What Is The Difference appeared first on Seattle Data Guy.
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Confessions of a Data Guy
MAY 7, 2023
Polars is one of those tools that you just want … no … NEED a reason to use it. It’s gotten so bad, I’ve started to use it in my Rust code on the side, Polars that is. I mean you have a problem if you could use Polars Python, and you find yourself using […] The post Polars – Laziness and SQL Context. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.
Waitingforcode
MAY 11, 2023
I have used to say "Kinesis Data Streams is like Apache Kafka, an append-only streaming broker with partitions and offsets". Although often it's true, it's not that simple unfortunately.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
The Pragmatic Engineer
MAY 9, 2023
Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation. 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover two out of seven topics from today’s subscriber-only deep-dive on Compensation at publicly traded tech companies.
Confluent
MAY 11, 2023
Running Kafka is costly, but Confluent has created a far more efficient product to lower your costs. Join the Cost Savings challenge to see for yourself.
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KDnuggets
MAY 12, 2023
Are you interested in exploring the topic of cognitive biases? Want to see how they may be affecting your data science practice? Check out this free ebook for this and more.
The Pragmatic Engineer
MAY 12, 2023
This is a response to a tweet asking: "Why is there no competition to PagerDuty/Opsgenie? People in my team say it’s “just connecting to the Twilio API” but if it were that easy, there’d probably be a ton of competition." PagerDuty is the market-leading incident alerting tool. OpsGenie is Atlassian's incident management tool, which is widespread thanks to distribution.
databricks
MAY 12, 2023
Download the Databricks Insurance NLP Solution Accelerator Introduction The current economic and social climate has redefined customer expectations and preferences. Society has been.
Snowflake
MAY 8, 2023
As of December, customers got a whole new level of insight into Snowflake query performance and query execution statistics when Snowflake announced the public preview of the new get_query_operator_stats function, opening up programmatic access to Snowflake query profiles and providing customers a whole new level of insight into Snowflake query performance and query execution statistics.
Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee
As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.
KDnuggets
MAY 10, 2023
Machine Learning with ChatGPT Cheat Sheet • HuggingChat Python API: Your No-Cost Alternative • AutoGPT: Everything You Need To Know • 8 Open-Source Alternative to ChatGPT and Bard • LangChain 101: Build Your Own GPT-Powered Applications
Confluent
MAY 9, 2023
Low utilization and operational complexity dramatically increases Kafka costs, so we reinvented Kafka as a cloud-native and complete service to reduce costs for thousands of businesses at any scale.
Precisely
MAY 10, 2023
Technology is a vast industry that has something for everybody. Because of this, it attracts people from all backgrounds and areas of expertise. At Precisely, having diverse representation is the key to success, and as a result, it’s been highly important for the organization to support the unique perspective that employees bring to the table. The Precisely Women in Technology (PWIT) program was designed to connect women from across the organization to one another to offer support, an internal n
Hevo
MAY 9, 2023
As a business grows, the demand to efficiently handle and process the exponentially growing data also rises. A popular open-source relational database used by several organizations across the world is PostgreSQL. It is a perfect database management system that also assists developers to build applications, and administrators to protect data integrity and develop fault-tolerant environments.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
KDnuggets
MAY 12, 2023
If you’re interested in trying out AI for fun or learning more about them, then take a look at our list and explore the cutting-edge LLMs available in the wild.
Confluent
MAY 10, 2023
Confluent manages 30,000+ Kafka clusters, produces over 3 trillion messages, and does durability checks on over 80 trillion Kafka messages per day while offering 99.99% uptime. Check out our cool stats!
Knowledge Hut
MAY 9, 2023
Many think that Earned value management is complicated paperwork and thus a lot of professionals stay away from it. On the other hand, successful project managers become superheroes to break this myth of earned value management (EVM). Earned Value Management has taken an important place in the world of project management and plays a vital role in the career of project management certification aspirants like PMI PMP certifications and PRINCE2 certificate.
Hevo
MAY 10, 2023
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office Suite. It’s compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS. It simplifies the creation of text and numeric grids, formulas calculations, graphing tools, pivot tables, and the VBA Macro programming language (Visual Basic for Applications).
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KDnuggets
MAY 10, 2023
HuggingChat Python API: Your No-Cost Alternative • Exploratory Data Analysis Techniques for Unstructured Data • Stop Doing this on ChatGPT and Get Ahead of the 99% of its Users • ChatGPT as a Personalized Tutor for Learning Data Science Concepts • The Ultimate Open-Source Large Language Model Ecosystem
Cloudera
MAY 11, 2023
Originally from Brazil, Alex previously lived in Chile and now lives in Spain. During his time living in Latin America in early 2016, Alex saw what he describes as a “knowledge gap” —s eeing the way skills, content and expertise are shared in an open, friendly way at conferences in the US, Alex wanted to replicate that in Latin America. To address this gap, Alex started planning meetups.
databricks
MAY 9, 2023
We are excited to announce that support for using Structured Streaming with Delta Sharing is now generally available (GA) in Azure, AWS, and.
Hevo
MAY 11, 2023
One of the biggest stumbling blocks of a business is the expansion of its Database. A few problems one might have to deal with while trying to expand their Database are storage problems, complicated management issues, and difficulty in the location, sharing, and checking of isolated data.
Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig
Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating
KDnuggets
MAY 10, 2023
Chatbot Arena is a benchmark platform for large language models, where the community can contribute new models and evaluate them.
Pinterest Engineering
MAY 9, 2023
Erika Sun ML Engineer | Advertiser Growth Modeling Team; Ogheneovo Dibie Engineering Manager | Advertiser Growth Modeling Team Photo by Jason Blackeye on Unsplash Summary In this blog post, we describe a Machine Learning (ML) powered proactive churn prevention solution that was prototyped with our small & medium business (SMB) advertisers. Results from our initial experiment suggest that we can detect future churn with a high degree of predictive power and consequently empower our sales par
databricks
MAY 9, 2023
As organizations are maturing their data infrastructure and accumulating more data than ever before in their data lakes, Open and Reliable table formats.
Hevo
MAY 10, 2023
Microsoft Excel has been a traditional choice as a spreadsheet application for organizations across the world. The ease of access, power formulas, and the ability to make visually stunning reports has made Microsoft Excel is widely used tool.
Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching
In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.
KDnuggets
MAY 9, 2023
Let's dive into some courses that will give you the knowledge you need to build an AI-based chatbot that looks good and functions well.
Cloudera
MAY 8, 2023
Out of the box Cloudera Data platform (CDP) performs superbly but over time, if data architecture, data engineering, and DevOps best practices are not maintained, you can get stuck maintaining the wild, wild west. In this six-part series, we’re focused on improving the health of your environment. Visibility and Transparency Improving environmental health is impossible if you’re flying blind.
databricks
MAY 11, 2023
Introduction This blog is part of our Admin Essentials series, where we'll focus on topics important to those managing and maintaining Databricks environments.
Snowflake
MAY 12, 2023
We’re excited to announce that the Snowflake Connector for Django is now available on Snowflake Labs on GitHub. This integration provides Django apps easy access to data within the Snowflake Data Cloud without manually integrating against API endpoints. Now Python developers can easily and quickly build web applications that access Snowflake data by leveraging the Django framework.
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