Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 5, 2024

AI networks play an important role in interconnecting tens of thousands of GPUs together, forming the foundational infrastructure for training, enabling large models with hundreds of billions of parameters such as LLAMA 3.1 405B. This week at ACM SIGCOMM 2024 in Sydney, Australia, we are sharing details on the network we have built at Meta over the past few years to support our large-scale distributed AI training workload.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 5, 2024

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we learn about companies building their businesses on Snowflake. In this edition, we talk to Brent Lane, Co-founder and CEO of BigGeo, about the world of geospatial data and learn how BigGeo is turning 15 years of research into advanced technology that knocks down traditional barriers to using rich, complex location-based data throughout an organization.

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databricks

AUGUST 5, 2024

Row filters and column masks control data access by filtering rows and masking column values using SQL UDFs in database queries.

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SQL Database Accessible Accessibility 117

Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are open-sourcing DCPerf, a collection of benchmarks that represents the diverse categories of workloads that run in data center cloud deployments. We hope that DCperf can be used more broadly by academia, the hardware industry, and internet companies to design and evaluate future products. DCPerf is available now on GitHub. Hyperscale and cloud datacenter deployments constitute the largest market share of server deployments in the world today.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 5, 2024

In this Employee Spotlight, we sat down with Stephanie Han to learn about her tenure at Cloudera, her journey from accounting to leading diversity, equality & inclusion (DEI) programs, and her impressive volunteer work. Meet Stephanie Han Stephanie is a Senior Program Manager in the HR team at Cloudera. She’s been with the company since 2019 and plays a key role in a variety of employee-centric initiatives including Cloudera’s employee volunteering program , talent management program, a

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 5, 2024

Get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers by creating and documenting the following AI projects.

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Portfolio Project Recruitment Management 100

KDnuggets

AUGUST 5, 2024

Learn how to analyze the time series dataset with the Python package NumPy.

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Striim

AUGUST 5, 2024

Prepare to transform your understanding of data and cloud architecture with visionary CEO Alex Gallego of Redpanda. Discover how Alex’s journey from building racing motorcycles and tattoo machines as a child led him to revolutionize stream processing and cloud infrastructure. This episode promises invaluable insights into the shift from batch to real-time data processing, and the practical applications across multiple industries that make this transition not just beneficial but necessary.

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Snowflake

AUGUST 5, 2024

Welcome to Snowflake’s Startup Spotlight, where we learn about companies building their businesses on Snowflake. In this edition, we talk to Brent Lane, Co-founder and CEO of BigGeo, about the world of geospatial data and learn how BigGeo is turning 15 years of research into advanced technology that knocks down traditional barriers to using rich, complex location-based data throughout an organization.

Business Intelligence 52

Business Intelligence Technology Accessible Accessibility 52

Precisely

AUGUST 5, 2024

Key takeaways: Organizations rely on location-based context to make informed business decisions. Adopting location reports equips business users with critical information that would otherwise require advanced spatial analytics to uncover. APIs make it easy for enterprise developers to build location intelligence into existing applications. A common obstacle to extracting value from the oceans of data stored in business systems is a lack of context.

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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.

Data

KDnuggets

AUGUST 5, 2024

End-to-end privacy for scikit-learn federated training models and encrypted inference using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)

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Knowledge Hut

AUGUST 5, 2024

PMP (Project Management Professional) is a professional certification offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). The Project Management Professional (PMP) credential demonstrates a person's ability to lead and deliver projects successfully. The construction industry is the country's second-largest employer and contributor to the economy. It is also one of the most diverse and unorganized industries, increasing the demand for skilled professionals in this field.

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KDnuggets

AUGUST 5, 2024

These IT jobs don’t get enough love and you could be missing out

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