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Česká spořitelna: How GenAI is Transforming Call Centers in the Financial Services Industry

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Czech savings bank esk spoitelna , a division of Austrias Erste Group , recently collaborated with AI solution builder DataSentics to explore the.

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Google’s Illuminate AI: A New Way to Create Your Own AI-Generated Podcasts

KDnuggets

See how to revolutionize how you bring stories to life with AI.

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The Developer Experience Upgrade: From Create React App to Vite

Tweag

We all know how it feels: staring at the terminal while your development server starts up, or watching your CI/CD pipeline crawl through yet another build process. For many React developers using Create React App (CRA), this waiting game has become an unwanted part of the daily routine. While CRA has been the go-to build tool for React applications for years, its aging architecture is increasingly becoming a bottleneck for developer productivity.

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How to Write Clean Python Code as a Beginner

KDnuggets

Writing Python code thats clean and easy to understand isnt just for experts — learn how to avoid common pitfalls and write like a pro from the start!

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.

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Maximizing Fuel Efficiency with Real-Time Data: A New Era in Airline Operations

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In 2024 , the global airline industry is projected to spend $291 billion on fuel, making it one of the most significant expenses for airlines. Inefficient fuel management not only drives up operational costs but also hampers environmental targets. However, optimizing fuel usage is complex, often hindered by limited real-time monitoring, which can lead to unnecessary waste due to inefficient routes, weather adjustments, excess weight, and outdated practices.

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Build a Strong Portfolio for Data Science Career

KDnuggets

Build a strong data science portfolio by showcasing technical skills, working on real-world projects, staying active on LinkedIn, and leveraging platforms like GitHub and Kaggle to demonstrate your expertise.

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Translating Java to Kotlin at Scale

Engineering at Meta

Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well past the halfway point and still going. We’re sharing some of the tradeoffs we’ve made to support automating our transition to Kotlin, seemingly simple transformations that are surprisingly tricky, and how we’re collaborating with other companies to capture hundreds more corner cases.

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The High Price of Poor Address Data: Solutions for Better Business Outcomes

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Key Takeaways : Poor address data can lead to missed deliveries, incorrect customer information, and wasted resources negatively impacting overall customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, and profitability. Correcting bad addresses is just the beginning you need to then connect those clean addresses to other valuable data points to unlock real value.

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How we think about Threads’ iOS performance

Engineering at Meta

How did the Threads iOS team maintain the app’s performance during its incredible growth? Here’s how Meta’s Threads team thinks about performance, including the key metrics we monitor to keep the app healthy. We’re also diving into some case studies that impact publish reliability and navigation latency. When Meta launched Threads in 2023, it became the fastest-growing app in history, gaining 100 million users in only five days.

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The Data Engineering Wrap-Up: 2024’s Biggest Trends

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With the year 2024 nearing its end, it is time to examine the significant trends and advancements that have impacted the field of data engineering. If you’re like me, you’ve been riding the data wave, watching how tools, technologies, and strategies evolve at breakneck speed.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Integrating Microservices with Confluent Cloud Using Micronaut® Framework

Confluent

Real-time data streaming and messaging are essential for building scalable, resilient, event-driven microservices. Explore integrating the Micronaut framework with Confluent Cloud.

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Exploring the Potential of Graph Neural Networks to Transform Recommendations at Zalando

Zalando Engineering

Recommender systems are vital for personalizing user experiences across various platforms. At Zalando, these systems play a crucial role in tailoring content to individual users, thereby enhancing engagement and satisfaction. This is particularly important for Zalando Homepage, which serves as the customers' first impression of the company. Our current recommendation system employed on the Home page excels by leveraging user-content interactions and optimizing for predicted click through rate (C

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Highlights from Confluent AI Day 2024

Confluent

Catch up on AI Days Keynote; AI Accelerator launch; panel discussion with Anthropic, AWS, MongoDB, Reworkd, and Confluent; GenAI RAG workshops; and a hackathon with a GenAI app showcase. Watch the full livestream on demand.

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Monte Carlo Recognized as the #1 Leader in Data Observability and Data Quality by G2

Monte Carlo

As we turn the corner into 2025, were excited to announce that for the 7th quarter in a row, Monte Carlo has been named G2s #1 Data Observability Platform, as well as #1 in the Data Quality category. This recognition never gets old because G2 bases their rankings on feedback and insights from real customers who work in these tools every day to add value to their business.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Women Leaders in Technology: A Conversation with Cloudera CMO, Mary Wells

Cloudera

Its no secret that women have long been underrepresented in the tech space. This issue demands our attention, as it not only limits opportunities for women to work, grow, and thrive but also hinders companies in their pursuit of top talent. Although global organizations, policies and programs to address this issue have gained momentum in recent years, theres work still left to do.

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How Black Friday Foot Traffic Offers a Glimpse into Retail’s Future

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Black Friday has long represented a high-stakes opportunity for retailers, with Big Box and electronics giants vying for dominance. However, this year told a different story. Google Trends revealed an unexpected rise in interest in hobby stores, particularly outdoor retailers and arts-and-crafts shops. This shift signals more than a seasonal anomalyit reflects a profound change in what customers value.

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Cartography joins the CNCF

Lyft Engineering

Written by AlexChantavy Today were thrilled to announce that Lyft has donated Cartography to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( CNCF ). Since Lyft open sourced it in 2019, its been rewarding to see the project grow from an experimental tool to a solution thats been battle-tested in production by multiple companies. In this post, well reflect on our learnings from Cartographys open source journey and discuss where its goingnext.

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Robinhood Markets Welcomes Christopher Payne to its Board of Directors

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Payne joins the Robinhood Board of Directors bringing decades of technology and product experience Were excited to announce Christopher Payne has joined Robinhood Markets Board of Directors. Christopher is a seasoned operator who has helped build category-defining companies at pivotal points in their evolution, said Vlad Tenev, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Robinhood.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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The Future of Data Engineering: DEW's 2025 Predictions

Data Engineering Weekly

DEW published The State of Data Engineering in 2024: Key Insights and Trends , highlighting the key advancements in the data space in 2024. We witnessed the explosive growth of Generative AI, the maturing of data governance practices, and a renewed focus on efficiency and real-time processing. But what does 2025 hold? After analyzing emerging patterns and vibrant conversations within the data community, DEW presents our top five predictions for the trends shaping the data world in the coming yea