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AI / Machine Learning
OtterTune sets out to auto tune all the databases
Tuning databases is key to application performance and stability, but it’s a hard job. Auto-tuning…
AI chip startup NeuReality introduces its NR1-P object-oriented hardware architecture
NeuReality targets deep learning inference workloads on the edge, aiming to reduce CAPEX and OPEX…
Open source AI stack is ready for its moment
Open source stacks enabled software to eat the world. Now several innovative companies are working…
Weaviate is an open-source search engine powered by ML, vectors, graphs, and GraphQL
Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not.…
Data, analytics, machine learning, and AI in healthcare in 2021
What do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today – AI…
OctoML scores $28M to go to market with open source Apache TVM, a de facto standard for MLOps
The open source Apache TVM project is becoming a de facto standard in MLOps, and…
Data / Analytics / Data Science
Business intelligence, meet graph. Neo4j introduces BI connector for data discovery tools
Mixing graph and relational data is now even more accessible. What does this mean for…
Data science vs the COVID-19 pandemic: Flattening the curve — but how?
Whether they are epidemiologists or not, a few people have attempted to use data and…
Machine learning vs payment fraud: Transparency and humans in the loop to minimize customer insults
What are customer insults, and what does machine learning have to do with it? False…
Data science vs social media disinformation: the case of climate change and the Australian bushfires
While a newly released World Weather Attribution study ties the Australian bushfires to anthropogenic climate…
Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated
What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon…
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,…
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,…
More graph databases. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 8, December 2018
Redis announces RedisGraph and a benchmark, TigerGraph goes AWS, AWS hands-on experiences, new features from…
Graph gets funding. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 7, November 2018
October 2018 was the busiest month in the busiest year in graph history, hence the…
Getting knowledge graph semantics and definitions right. The Year of the Graph Newsletter Vol. 6, October 2018
Getting knowledge graph semantics and definitions right, semantic web standards used in the real world,…
Knowledge graphs beyond the hype: Getting knowledge in and out of graphs and databases
What exactly are knowledge graphs, and what’s with all the hype about them? Learning to…
Innovation
Chainlink launches Mainnet to get data in and out of Ethereum smart contracts
Smart contracts promise to take execution of processes and agreements to the Ethereum global computer.…
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…
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,…
Google Cloud gives open-source data vendors a break. Will that save open source?
Google will give open-source data vendors that offer their software on Google Cloud a share…
Streamlio, an open-core streaming data fabric for the cloud era
Apache Kafka replacement and beyond. This is open-core Streamlio’s claim to fame, and today’s announcement…
Open source AI chips making Green Waves: Bringing energy efficiency to IoT architecture
What if machine learning applications on the edge were possible, pushing the limits of size…
Other Topics
Media hype and moral panic: fake news and populism in the Netherlands
What led towards an election result that did not live up to Geert Vilders’ hopes…
Devs are from Mars, Ops are from Venus: Can analytics bridge the gap?
Despite what they’d have you believe, Devs and Ops don’t always get along nicely. Pepperdata…
MapR, DataStax offer options for container persistence
If it’s lack of options for persistence that’s keeping you from using containers, maybe it’s…
Staying agile: data-driven IT operations
Would you like to have an end-to-end picture of your IT operations, but are lost…
Digital transformation as a data-centric service
Is digital transformation something you can just buy into? No, but it is a data-centric…
Big Data, Crystal Balls and Looking Glasses: Reviewing 2016, predicting 2017
End-of-year reviews are boring — and everyone does them. Predictions are boring — and they…