Mon.Nov 11, 2024

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How to Learn AI the Lazy Way

KDnuggets

Embrace your inner lazy learner and focus on being efficient with your time and energy.

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Top 10 Marketplace Questions, Answered

databricks

Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data, analytics, and AI, powered by the open-source Delta Sharing standard. Since the release of Databricks.

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How to Implement a Basic Reranking System in RAG

KDnuggets

A practical guide to easily implement a reranker capable of putting together multiple document scoring criteria in RAG systems

Systems 101
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Accelerate AI Development with Snowflake

Snowflake

At Snowflake BUILD , we are introducing powerful new features designed to accelerate building and deploying generative AI applications on enterprise data, while helping you ensure trust and safety. These new tools streamline workflows, deliver insights at scale, and get AI apps into production quickly. Customers such as Skai have used these capabilities to bring their generative AI solution into production in just two days instead of months.

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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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Interested in Learning How to Code?

KDnuggets

Continue reading to learn about some beginner-friendly courses to kickstart your coding career.

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Simplifying Data Architecture and Security to Accelerate Value

Snowflake

It’s easy these days for an organization’s data infrastructure to begin looking like a maze, with an accumulation of point solutions here and there. While some businesses find ways to stitch together many tools with complex pipelines, wouldn’t it be better if you could remove some of the steps? What if you could streamline your efforts while still building an architecture that best fits your business and technology needs?

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Self-Serve Platform for Scalable ML Recommendations

Booking.com Engineering

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the ability to adapt quickly to user needs and handle large-scale demands is paramount. That’s why we’ve transformed our recommendation service into a powerful self-serve platform, designed to tackle not only any machine-learning (ML) and AI challenges with ease but also to scale effectively. Let’s dive into how this evolution empowers teams and enhances user experiences.

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Understanding Conceptual vs Logical vs Physical Data Models for Effective Databases

Hevo

Consider designing a skyscraper. You would first need to create a high-level design. Next, you would create detailed plans for each floor. Lastly, you would choose the building materials and methods. Designing a database is similar.

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Unlocking Operational Efficiency: A Major Home Improvement Retailer’s Path to Data Modernization with Striim

Striim

Organizations across various industries require real-time access to data to drive decisions, enhance customer experiences, and streamline operations. A leading home improvement retailer recognized the need to modernize its data infrastructure in order to move data from legacy systems to the cloud and improve operational efficiency. To achieve these goals, the retailer partnered with Striim to support its data modernization and real-time integration efforts.

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Top 10 Databricks Competitors: Best Alternatives for 2025

Hevo

Databricks is a platform that provides powerful analytics and flexibility, making it a top choice for data-driven teams. But as data needs grow more complex, exploring alternatives and finding tools that may be an even better fit would make more sense. Databricks competitors offer unique features that can cater to your specific tasks or workflows.

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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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How an Enterprise Intelligence Platform Delivered Self-Service Data Trust with Data Observability 

Monte Carlo

When it comes to the field of enterprise go-to-market intelligence, moving fast is critical for success. We recently spoke with one platform’s data team who shared how they’re facilitating speed-to-insights for their data consumers. After a period of rapid growth combined with several successful acquisitions, this particular platform—which delivers real-time data and insights to more than 35,000 companies worldwide—became one the first tech IPOs of the Covid-19 era.

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Boosting Customer Loyalty with Personalization and Communication Strategies

Precisely

Key Takeaways: Data used for personalization must be of high quality—accurate, up-to-date, and free of redundancies. 4 Practical Tips for Implementing Data-Driven Personalization in your organization. Many organizations struggle with siloed communication channels, which create fragmented customer experiences. How do you convert the everyday customers into loyal brand enthusiasts?

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Trends and Takeaways from Banking and Payments’ Event of the Year

Snowflake

This fall, thousands of leaders in the financial services industry gathered at the annual Money 20/20 conference to talk trends in payments, compliance, fraud reduction, treasury and transactions and more. Conversations centered on the theme of “Human x Machine,” and while AI was a focus, there were plenty of other insights around real-time data analytics, security considerations and customer strategies that are guiding the future of money.

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Azure Databricks at Microsoft Ignite 2024

databricks

Azure Databricks is excited to join Microsoft Ignite 2024 , held at Chicago’s McCormick Place West from November 18th-22nd. As a Gamechanger-level sponsor.

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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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Data Engineering Weekly #197

Data Engineering Weekly

Slack: Empowering Engineers with AI In our most recent internal developer survey, 65% of respondents said they prefer an IDE as the primary platform to engage with generative-AI for development tasks. Companies rapidly adopt Gen-AI into their developer workflow and internal knowledge management to improve productivity. Slack provides an excellent overview of this process.

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What I learnt about software development from the RAF by Dave Ogle

Scott Logic

On the 12th of November 2003 I joined the Royal Air Force and it’s safe to say I had no idea what lay in store for me. I left my home in North Wales and headed south to undertake recruit basic training at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire. Nine years later I left the air force, headed for university to study for a career in software development. Today I’m a lead software developer here at Scott Logic and a lot of things are very different as I’m sure you can imagine, but not everything, there are st

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How to Use MySQL ALTER TABLE command?

Hevo

MySQL is the most popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Oracle Corporation, and it has become a staple for developers and data professionals.  It is very important to choose the right database management system for any organization to make the right decision.

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