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Kafka: The story so far
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Kafka: The story so far

Hard problems at scale, the future of application development, and building an open source business. If any of that is…

Jun 20, 2017
Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

May 26, 2017
Graph databases and RDF: It’s a family affair

Graph databases and RDF: It’s a family affair

May 19, 2017
The continuing rise of graph databases

The continuing rise of graph databases

May 15, 2017
Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale

Advertising data going forward: Transparency and scale

May 10, 2017

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Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy
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Breaking up Facebook? Try data literacy, social engineering, personal knowledge graphs, and developer advocacy

Yes, Facebook is a data-driven monopoly. But the only real way to break it up…

May 16, 2019
On the Rookout for live data: Instant observability to fix software bugs and open AI black boxes
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On the Rookout for live data: Instant observability to fix software bugs and open AI black boxes

Getting data to debug your code while running in production, without stopping or redeploying it.…

May 8, 2019
A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake
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A standard for storing big data? Apache Spark creators release open-source Delta Lake

From data lakes to data swamps and back again. Data reliability, as in transactional support,…

Apr 24, 2019
Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019
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Graphs in the cloud. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: April 2019

The first sign of convergence in the graph space is here. Graph databases continue to…

Apr 15, 2019
Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
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Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence…

Apr 9, 2019
Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future
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Run:AI takes your AI and runs it, on the super-fast software stack of the future

Startup Run:AI exits stealth, promises a software layer to abstract over many AI chips It’s…

Apr 3, 2019

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