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Snowflake Workloads Explained: Applications

Snowflake’s platform powers applications with virtually unlimited performance, concurrency, and scale. Delivered as a service, Snowflake handles the infrastructure complexity, so you can focus on innovating. With Snowflake for Applications, enjoy near-unlimited scalability and concurrency and accelerated time-to-market with no SRE/DevOps burden.

The Top 7 ETL Events & Conferences 2022

There are few topics in the world right now that are hotter than data and its related fields. As technology, machine learning, and computer algorithms continue to expand, so does the way that companies can use this information to benefit their business. Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) remains one of the most important processes in the area of big data. This area is absolutely booming, and so is the demand to learn more about its various processes and components.

Best data modeling methods for data and analytics engineers

Recently, I published a blog on whether self-service BI is attainable, and spoiler alert: it certainly is. Of course, anything of value usually does require a bit of planning, collaboration, and effort. After the article was published, I began having conversations with technical leaders, analysts, and analytics engineers, and the topic of data modeling for self-service analytics came up repeatedly.

Driving Data, Delivering Value: Data Leaders to Watch in 2023

The Chief Data Officer is arguably one of the most important roles at a company, particularly those that aspire to be data-driven. CDO appointments and the elevation of data leaders have accelerated in recent years, and the role has morphed as perceptions of data have evolved. Responsibilities span strategy and execution, people and processes, and the technology needed to deliver on the promise of data.

The Growing Need for Advanced Analytics to Fuel 5G and Edge Solutions

Organizations have been focused on enhancing customer experiences to enable quicker responses to services and to provide localized behavior for many years now. However, with the Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Cities, Gaming technologies and Self-Driving Cars going more mainstream, there is an even greater need for organizations to react faster to customer behavior and bring solutions closer to the customers.

Data Mesh and other Alternatives for Data Chiefs in 2023

Title: Data Mesh and other Alternatives for Data Chiefs in 2023 Description: The data world exploded in 2022 with a heated debate around data mesh. We had to talk to Tony Baer of DBinsights to get a better understanding of his perspective and criticism of data mesh. Most importantly, we needed to know what it is he recommends we use instead!

Questions around Transparency in AI models with Tom Davenport

Often the question around bias is raised whenever the conversation turns to AI. Tom Davenport, author of “Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration” points out that bias is not limited to AI, but also finds root in many human decision-makers as well. Actually, according to Tom, the bigger threat is ignoring that working with AI is going to increasingly be a part of our human work experience.

How to Optimize Huggingface Models for Production

Deploying models is becoming easier every day, especially thanks to excellent tutorials like Transformers-Deploy. It talks about how to convert and optimize a Hugging face model and deploy it on the Nvidia Triton inference server. Nvidia Triton is an exceptionally fast and solid tool and should be very high on the list when searching for ways to deploy a model. If you haven’t read the blogpost yet, do it now first, I will be referencing it quite a bit in this blogpost.