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Machine Learning: The cloud is the new battlefield

There’s a reason why every major cloud provider is backing its own machine learning framework.…

Nov 22, 2017

Elasticsearch 6.0: not that new, but quite improved

Elasticsearch is an open source platform that is about a lot more than just search.…

Nov 14, 2017

A better blockchain: Bitcoin for nothing and transactions for free?

Imagine a blockchain-like protocol that promises to remove what is seen as the two biggest…

Nov 13, 2017

Who’s automating the enterprise? Meet Amelia and the future of work

Imagine all enterprise functions automated by software and performed through a single point of access,…

Nov 8, 2017

A rock and a hard place: Between ScyllaDB and Cassandra

How many NoSQL databases does the world really need, and how easily would you switch…

Oct 24, 2017

Technical

Make software great again: can open source be ethical and fair?

Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in…

Feb 27, 2020

Neo4j 4.0 adds enterprise Fabric to its graph database

In its new release, Neo4j addresses key concerns for enterprise adoption. Scalability, security, management and…

Feb 4, 2020

Knowledge graph evolution: Platforms that speak your language

Knowledge graphs are among the most important technologies for the 2020s. Here is how they…

Jan 30, 2020

Semantics and virtualization, data integration and data governance on the way to the cloud

It’s official – data analytics is swiftly moving to the cloud. AtScale is facilitating this,…

Jan 15, 2020

DevOps and observability in the 2020s

What do the data tell us on the direction modern software development is going? Cloud,…

Jan 14, 2020

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