Databases, graphs, and GraphQL: The past, present, and future
GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how.
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What do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today – AI and healthcare? A peek into the future, potentially.
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Can an open source-based workflow leveraging version control and continuous integration and deployment help streamline machine learning, like it did for software development?
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A new interconnected ecosystem for research is shaping up, and machine learning is just the tip of the iceberg.
Read More →Pinecone, a serverless vector database for machine learning, leaves stealth with $10M funding
Machine learning applications understand the world through vectors. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing?
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Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs. Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses
Read More →Meet Stargate, DataStax’s GraphQL for databases. First stop – Cassandra
A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate.
Read More →Own your newsfeed, own your data
A guide to keeping all your news sources and items in one place We all have things we care about and follow. Whether it’s sports, arts, technology, from the mainstream to the obscure, we gravitate around them. Over time, we tend to both specialise, accumulating knowledge in specific sub-domains, and expand, jumping to adjacent topics […]
Read More →A troubleshooting platform for free: Netdata scores $14.2M funding to extend its open-source application monitoring platform
Netdata thinks what the world lacks is a troubleshooting platform to bring real-time metrics to observability. They are building and offering it to the world for free — for now.
Read More →Data.world secures $26 million funding, exemplifies the use of semantics and knowledge graphs for metadata management
Data.world wants to eliminate data silos to answer business questions. Their bet to do this is to provide data catalogs powered by knowledge graphs and semantics. The choice of technology seems to hit the mark, but intangibles matter, too.
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