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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

This provides Greenplum deployments with a huge performance boost over in-memory systems that need enough memory to store their data, or non-RDBMS based systems that are in-memory processing engines that allocate RAM for each concurrent query. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics. How to Get Started.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

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. Second, the free form text formats and protocols that we’re accustomed to may be too informal and error prone for capturing and reporting facts at Internet scale.

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Creating A Magento PWA: Customizing Themes vs. Coding From Scratch

Smashing Magazine

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Following from the above, an undeniable strength of PWAs, when compared to native applications, is that their pages are findable via search engines. And frankly, the feature set of progressive web applications for online retail continuously expands.

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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

The VM is reachable from the Internet? It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year. On what granularity (seconds, minutes, calendar months, rolling 30 days,…)? What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Sergey Chernyshev.