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March 17, 2022

Google Exposes Android Vitals Data via Play Developer Reporting API

With the introduction of the new Play Developer Reporting API, Google is allowing developers to integrate essential app performance data into third-party applications. This API will allow developers to build custom dashboards and aggregate Google data with other sources.

At launch, this API provides access to four essential metrics: crash rate, ANR (App Not Responding) rate, excessive wake-up rate, and stuck background wake-lock rate. The API also allows for tracking of application anomalies.

March 16, 2022

Twelve Labs Announces API Suite for Its Video Search Platform

Twelve Labs, a company specializing in cloud infrastructure for video search and analysis, has announced a suite of cloud-native APIs that enable integration with the company’s AI-powered video search tooling. These APIs enable developers to leverage near instantaneous search of massive video catalogs.

The developer documentation for the new API suite provides a comprehensive overview of the functionality provided by these APIs. The documentation notes that:

Packages for Store Routines in MariaDB 11.4
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MariaDB 11.4 introduced many advanced features. One that grabbed my attention is the general support of packages for stored routines. Although this was previously available by activating the Oracle compatibility mode, now the feature is available gener... […]
Maintain Chat History in Generative AI Apps With Valkey
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A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application. But, that's not the same... […]
Knowledge Graph Enlightenment, AI, and RAG
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In the previous edition of the YotG newsletter, the wave of Generative AI hype was probably at its all-time high. Today, while Generative AI is still talked about and trialed, the hype is subsiding. Skepticism is settling in, and for good reason. Repor... […]
Building an Effective Zero Trust Security Strategy for End-To-End Cyber Risk Management
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You've probably heard a lot about zero-trust security lately, and for good reason. As we move more of our applications and data to the cloud, the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security just doesn't cut it anymore. This makes me come... […]
Phased Approach to Data Warehouse Modernization
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A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems. Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to ... […]