AI / Machine Learning

The state of MLOps in 2021

MLOps is the art and science of bringing machine learning to production, and it means…

Sep 3, 2021

AI ethics in the real world: FTC commissioner shows a path toward economic justice

FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter lays out machine learning and AI’s potential for harm and…

Aug 13, 2021

Building MLGUI, user interfaces for machine learning applications

Machine learning is eating the world, and spilling over to established disciplines in software, too.…

Jul 19, 2021

More than words: Shedding light on the data terminology mess

Data management, data governance, data observability, data fabric, data mesh, DataOps, MLOps, AIOps. It’s a…

Jun 22, 2021

Machine learning at the edge: TinyML is getting big

Being able to deploy machine learning applications at the edge is the key to unlocking…

Jun 7, 2021

It’s all about the data: Explorium’s bet pays off in $75M Series C funding

Data science and machine learning are being commoditized, so it’s the datasets that make the…

May 18, 2021

Data / Analytics / Data Science

Open source database ScyllaDB 4.0 promises Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB drop-in replacement

ScyllaDB has made a name for itself as a fast drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra.…

May 7, 2020

A Gmail for databases: CockroachDB aims for the top, stocks up with $86.6M new funding

Stay-at-home means more remote work and more online business globally. Global business online means a…

May 5, 2020

Optimizing hardware infrastructure with data and AI: Granulate scores $12 million Series A funding

How does boosting hardware performance between 20% and 80% sound? This is what startup Granulate…

Apr 22, 2020

Make Apache Cassandra great again: DataStax going cloud, Kubernetes, open source, and multi-model

Actions and words, code and advocacy. DataStax is changing strategy, re-engaging with the Apache Cassandra…

Mar 31, 2020

A gravitational wave moment for graph. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: March 2019

A gravitational wave moment for the graph community in the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization…

Mar 14, 2019

Graph data standardization: It’s just a graph, making gravitational waves in the real world

AWS, Google, Neo4j, Oracle. These were just some of the vendors represented in the W3C…

Mar 8, 2019

2019 will be another ‘Year of the Graph’: OpenCorporates is evidence No. 1

Graph databases are crossing the chasm to mainstream use cases, adding features such as machine…

Feb 13, 2019

Knowledge graphs, AI, and interoperability. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: February 2019

Knowledge graphs are spreading everywhere: from Airbnb and eBay to Alexa, and from using JSON-LD…

Feb 3, 2019

In Between Years. The Year of the Graph Newsletter: January 2019

In between years, or zwischen den Jahren, is a German expression for the period between…

Jan 14, 2019

Data, crystal balls, looking glasses, and boiling frogs: Reviewing 2018, predicting 2019

Data gets flexible. Machine learning reigns supreme and transforms everything, including software and hardware. Regulation,…

Jan 3, 2019

Innovation

Nvidia Rapids cuGraph: Making graph analysis ubiquitous

A new open-source library by Nvidia could be the secret ingredient to advancing analytics and…

Aug 21, 2019

Graph database reinvented: Dgraph secures $11.5M to pursue its unique and opinionated path

Imagine a graph database that’s not aimed at the growing graph database market, selling to…

Jul 31, 2019

Forget silicon – SQL on DNA is the next frontier for databases

A couple of years back, even researchers would wave off using DNA to store data…

Jul 22, 2019

The Graph: An open-source query protocol for blockchains, using GraphQL

Querying blockchains is hard, but it does not have to be. This is the vision…

Jun 11, 2019

Other Topics

Real-time applications are going places

Data streaming is the paradigm behind applications that can process data and act upon insights…

Nov 29, 2017

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

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

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

Insight platforms as a service: What they are and why they matter

The convergence of cloud, automation and collaboration has created a new class of offerings for…

Sep 15, 2017

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