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Data+AI Summit 2024 - Retrospective - Streaming

Waitingforcode

Welcome to the first Data+AI Summit 2024 retrospective blog post. I'm opening the series with the topic close to my heart at the moment, stream processing!

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Meta’s approach to machine learning prediction robustness

Engineering at Meta

Meta’s advertising business leverages large-scale machine learning (ML) recommendation models that power millions of ads recommendations per second across Meta’s family of apps. Maintaining reliability of these ML systems helps ensure the highest level of service and uninterrupted benefit delivery to our users and advertisers. To minimize disruptions and ensure our ML systems are intrinsically resilient, we have built a comprehensive set of prediction robustness solutions that ensure stability w

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Introducing Cloudera Observability Premium

Cloudera

There’s nothing worse than wasting money on unnecessary costs. In on-premises data estates, these costs appear as wasted person-hours waiting for inefficient analytics to complete, or troubleshooting jobs that have failed to execute as expected, or at all. They manifest as idle hardware waiting for urgent workloads to come in, ensuring sufficient spare capacity to run them amidst noisy neighbors and resource-hungry, lower-priority workloads.

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Taming the tail utilization of ads inference at Meta scale

Engineering at Meta

Tail utilization is a significant system issue and a major factor in overload-related failures and low compute utilization. The tail utilization optimizations at Meta have had a profound impact on model serving capacity footprint and reliability. Failure rates, which are mostly timeout errors, were reduced by two-thirds; the compute footprint delivered 35% more work for the same amount of resources; and p99 latency was cut in half.

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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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MiFID II: Data Streaming for Post-Trade Reporting

Confluent

Data streaming with Confluent enables the integration and processing of post-trade data in real time, allowing for compliance with MiFID II. Learn how.

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Leverage graph technology for real-time Fraud Detection and Prevention

Booking.com Engineering

Written by Deepak Patankar and Mathijs de Jong Introduction At Booking.com we are dedicated to maintaining a secure and trustworthy platform for both our customers and partners. Our work involves addressing a multitude of threats, ranging from payment fraud to the proliferation of fake hotels and reviews, as well as the abuse of marketing campaigns.

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Open Platform at the 2024 Esri User Conference

ArcGIS

Use this resource to find all the Open Platform focused sessions and activities at the 2024 Esri User Conference you won't want to miss.

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Probability: A Statology Primer

KDnuggets

Learn all about probability with this collection of tutorials from our sister site Statology.

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Automating Warehouse Usage Reports in Snowflake

Cloudyard

Read Time: 1 Minute, 37 Second Efficient management of Snowflake resources is crucial for optimizing performance and cost. One of the key aspects is monitoring warehouse usage. In this blog post, we’ll explore a use case where we automate the reporting of warehouse usage and send detailed weekly summaries via email. Our Organization is a data-driven organization relying heavily on Snowflake for its data warehousing needs.

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Snowpipe Alternatives You Should Consider for Your Data Needs

Hevo

While you can use Snowpipe for straightforward and low-complexity data ingestion into Snowflake, Snowpipe alternatives, like Kafka, Spark, and COPY, provide enhanced capabilities for real-time data processing, scalability, flexibility in data handling, and broader ecosystem integration.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Power Automate Visual Use Cases for Power BI Reports

RandomTrees

Power Automate is an automation tool developed by Microsoft with the intention to allow citizen developers to access the capability of automation in day-to-day tasks. Whether you are an IT, Marketing, Finance, or HR professional, you will be able to use Power Automate. With the help of power automation one can create a flow to send an alert email whenever a new row is created in a SharePoint list.

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Predictive Analytics in Logistics: Forecasting Demand and Managing Risks

Striim

The utilization of predictive analytics has revolutionized nearly every industry, but perhaps none have experienced its transformative impact quite as profoundly as logistics. In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and ever-increasing customer expectations, the ability to accurately predict demand and efficiently mitigate risks can make or break logistics operations.

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13 Benefits of Virtualization in Cloud Computing 2024

Knowledge Hut

Since the birth of cloud computing, virtualization has become a common practice in IT. It creates virtual versions of physical items like storage devices, desktops, and servers. Cloud service providers offer these resources, allowing companies to rent them without managing physical services. This reduces IT costs and enhances performance by not limiting physical servers to a few applications.

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Looking for an Alternative to the Microsoft Planetary Computer Hub?

ArcGIS

Esri users can leverage the Planetary Computer data catalog for geospatial analysis with ArcGIS for Microsoft Planetary Computer.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Ethical Hacking vs Cyber Security – Key Differences Explained

Edureka

Even though cybersecurity and ethical hacking are related, they are two distinct fields. Ethical hackers/ white hat hackers, actively probe systems for vulnerabilities and fix them. Cybersecurity is a much broader field. Cybersecurity professionals adopt a defensive stance. Their job is to implement and maintain various security controls, such as firewalls, encryption, and access management.

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How to Create Streamlit Apps on Snowflake? – A Step by Step Guide

Hevo

The choice of data management system determines how quickly and in real-time you can store and access information. Some cloud database architectures, like Snowflake, offer a scalable and flexible environment for processing large datasets.

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Reconnaissance in Ethical Hacking: The First Step to Secure Networks

Edureka

Reconnaissance is the initial stage of hacking, and it is ethical. It involves acquiring intelligence on a target with the intention of exploiting their weaknesses. This information proves helpful to hackers when planning how to launch an attack. Now, let us understand what reconnaissance in ethical hacking means, why it is necessary, and how to perform it.

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Beyond Coding: Why The Human Touch Matters

KDnuggets

The rise of soft skills in 2024 and why you should not neglect them!

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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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A Brief History of Modern Data Stack

Data Engineering Weekly

The origin - a legend The origin of the modern data stack is a topic of intense debate, shrouded in uncertainty and mystery. Some attribute its incubation to Snowflake, Redshift, or Airflow, while others propose different theories. Rather than being the result of a single event, the term "modern data stack" emerged from a series of innovations and industry shifts, adding to the intrigue of its history.

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