All Things Distributed

APRIL 13, 2023

The VP of database, analytics and machine learning services at AWS, Swami Sivasubramanian, walks me through the broad landscape of generative AI, what we’re doing at Amazon to make large language and foundation models more accessible, and how custom silicon can help to bring down costs, speed up training, and increase energy efficiency for our customers. (..)

Energy 162

Energy AWS Analytics Speed 162

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 30, 2023

These include: What data sources the model is trained on. The recent discovery (documented by an exposé in The Atlantic ) that OpenAI, Meta, and others used databases of pirated books, for example, highlights the need for transparency in training data. Policy on use of user data for further training. Operational Metrics.

Energy 122

Energy Internet Internet Metrics 122

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

By carving the right AWS certification path, developers can even use their certification and training to advance their careers long term. What is the value of AWS training and certification? You and your peers – if you team up – can benefit on multiple levels from AWS training and certification.

AWS 214

AWS Best Practices Analytics Cloud 214

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Another group of cases involving text (typically novels and novelists) argue that using copyrighted texts as part of the training data for a Large Language Model (LLM) is itself copyright infringement, 1 even if the model never reproduces those texts as part of its output. Is an artist’s style copyrightable, and if so, what does that mean?

Artificial Intelligence 104

Artificial Intelligence Media Google Processing 104

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Continuous monitoring plays a crucial role in preventing unauthorized data access by: Actively tracking and analyzing cloud infrastructure in real-time to prevent unauthorized access Promptly identifying and addressing security incidents Maintaining compliance through regular updates and user training.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database. System Components. Component Design. Posting on Instagram. API Design. Data Models.

Design 334

Design Media Storage Logistics 334

O'Reilly

JUNE 27, 2023

When a person clicked “submit,” the website would pass that form data through some backend code to process it—thereby sending an e-mail, creating an order, or storing a record in a database. Which means your chatbot is effectively a naive person who has access to all of the information from the training dataset.

Social Media 92

Social Media Media Website Database 92

Percona

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Learn how to keep your database secure and performant after that date and what real options you have if you decide to upgrade or stay on the current version. He started to work with MySQL from the 3.29 version and was a part of the MySQL Community Team for over a decade. reaches its End of Life in October 2023. The Era of MySQL 5.x

Google 101

Google Programming Database Code 101

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. According to the Dynatrace Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report , a significant 71% (with 48% year-over-year growth!)

Cloud 79

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 79

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.34

Open Source 80

Open Source Scalability Database Servers 80

Percona

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This is the premier open source database conference and you not only want to attend but you also need to present at! Topics can cover any and all open source database and data-related topics. Tutorial Sessions present a technical session that aims for a level between a training class and a conference breakout session.

Open Source 69

Open Source Database DevOps Cloud 69

Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. It includes all the features and bug fixes available in the MySQL 8.0.33

Servers 69

Servers Open Source Scalability Database 69

Percona

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL is now available on Debian 12 (bookworm).

Open Source 77

Open Source Scalability Database Software 77

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.33

Open Source 83

Open Source Scalability Servers Database 83

Percona

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

If your one vendor of hardware, software, training, and all tangential things discontinued your sole-sourced system in favor of a newer, better-margined system of their manufacture, then all your investment was suddenly worth next to nothing. But that will require a big rewrite of your application to support the new database.

Open Source 111

Open Source Software Software Hardware 111

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1

Open Source 79

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 79

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

We thought that reinforcement learning would be a promising approach that could provide great flexibility in the training process. Likewise it has very low requirements on the initial amount of training data. Lerner uses AWS services to store binary versions of the agents, agent configurations, and training data.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

JANUARY 9, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Database page content is not written to the buffer. The GRANT OPTION privilege was treated as related to database operations.

Open Source 84

Open Source Database Servers Software 84

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, and open source drop-in replacement for any MySQL database, and Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.41-44

Servers 78

Servers Open Source Database Software 78

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. You know what time it is… it’s time for the release roundup!

Open Source 76

Open Source Storage Servers Database 76

Percona

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. It’s an open source database monitoring, management, and observability solution for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. Take a look!

Monitoring 68

Monitoring Open Source Database Software 68

Percona

JULY 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 26, 2023.

Monitoring 75

Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database 75

Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

To combat this issue, certain strategies are recommended such as prioritizing alerts based on severity levels, reducing false positives through advanced detection techniques, automating response protocols for faster action-taking, and providing adequate training and resources for personnel responsible for managing security.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Cloud Monitoring Strategy 130

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The following chart breaks down features in three main areas: training and auditing, serving and deployment, and data management, across six systems. Finally, an analysis of ML research directions reveals the following arc through time: systems for training, systems for scoring, AutoML, and then responsible AI.

Government 95

Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 10, 2023.

Open Source 71

Open Source Scalability Database Monitoring 71

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

And it is fueled by AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations , which provides contextualized data—without the time-consuming need to train data with machine learning. Unlike traditional monitoring, a modern observability platform provides precise data in real-time about the root cause of application issues.

Artificial Intelligence 189

Artificial Intelligence Performance Innovation Speed 189

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Note that the dataset on which GPT-3 trained terminated around October 2019. OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention.

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Internet Internet 140

O'Reilly

JANUARY 6, 2020

The programming world will increasingly be split between highly trained professionals and people who don’t have a deep background but have a lot of experience building things. Like reading, some people learn how to code with little training, and others don’t. We need to rethink the role of the programmer.

Programming 98

Programming Artificial Intelligence Education Games 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It requires purchasing, powering, and configuring physical hardware, training and retaining the staff capable of servicing and securing the machines, operating a data center, and so on. Migrate databases intelligently. In the traditional IT model, there’s significant operational and capital expenditure involved.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Waqas Dhillon : The goal of in-database machine learning is to bring popular machine learning algorithms and advanced analytical functions directly to the data, where it most commonly resides – either in a data warehouse or a data lake. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever.

Internet 174

Internet Internet Scalability Analytics 174

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As well as outright behaviour and performance once fully trained, a related interesting question is whether or not the AI model improves with training in the same way that humans do on the same task as their skill levels increase. these engines were not trained on human games. AlphaZero).

Systems 85

Systems Games Engineering Open Source 85

O'Reilly

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s a widely used platform for building applications that generate queries programmatically and that connects LLMs with each other, with databases, and with other software. Langchain is frequently used to look up relevant articles that weren’t in ChatGPT’s training data and package them as part of a lengthy prompt.

Artificial Intelligence 75

Artificial Intelligence Programming Games Open Source 75

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But that’s a programming task that isn’t going to be learned in a couple of hours; it typically involves generating embeddings, using a vector database, then generating a chain of prompts that are answered by different systems, combining the answers, and possibly generating more prompts. Could the basics be learned in a couple of hours?

Programming 103

Programming Education Engineering Design 103

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 91

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 91

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I played a bit with ChatGPT in February to see how it would respond to random database-related inquiries, and I found it pretty impressive and annoying at the same time. significantly enhanced downgrade compatibility by introducing changes that make it easier for downgraded databases to interoperate with older MongoDB versions.

Database 85

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 85