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February 2, 2022

How to Test and Benchmark Database Clusters

Benchmarking will help you fail fast and recover fast before it’s too late.

Teams should always consider benchmarking as part of the acceptance procedure for any application. What is the overall user experience that you want to bake into the application itself? Ensure that you can support scaling your customer base without compromising user experience or the actual functionality of the app.

January 14, 2020

What CDOs and CAOs Struggle With Most

Our team recently attended the Chief Data & Analytics officers (CDAO) conference in Boston and used the opportunity to conduct an informal poll. The conference wills packed with C-suit executives trying to wrangle big data at companies like Tesla, Lionsgate, AMD, Capital One, and Ford. We asked everyone about their analytics challenges. There were two standout issues that we kept hearing about again and again.

1. Their data scientists get bogged down with data access challenges

A recent study showed that data preparation and data engineering tasks represent over 80% of the time consumed in most AI and Machine Learning projects.

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 ... […]