iOS 17 is Here: What's New & What to Test
Sauce Labs now supports iOS 17 on real devices! This new iOS version offers a range of updates for security, personalization, sharing, and communication features. Learn more in our blog post.
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Perforce Adds Generative AI to Test Data Automation to Increase Precision, Coverage, and Shift Left Velocity
BlazeMeter's new Test Data Pro adds generative AI in three significant ways to auto-generate test data, increase data profiling precision, and enable natural language for test data rule creation.
Apache Kafka Message Compression
Apache Kafka® supports incredibly high throughput. It’s been known for feats like supporting 20 million orders per hour to get COVID tests out to US citizens during the pandemic. Kafka's approach to partitioning topics helps achieve this level of scalability. Topic partitions are the main "unit of parallelism" in Kafka. What’s a unit of parallelism? It’s like having multiple cashiers in the same store instead of one.
Kong announces new AWS Workshops and AddOns for EKS Blueprints for Terraform
The Kong and Amazon (AWS) partnership is stronger than ever! As Kong continues to evolve, with Kong Konnect and Kong Mesh, the means of integrating with AWS grows as well. In a continuous effort to offer cutting-edge collaborations, Kong announces new Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) based contributions: Kong Konnect AddOns for the EKS Blueprints for Terraform framework and two new Kong AWS workshops.
Technology Spotlight: Open Data Lakehouse for Private Cloud
Cloudera emphasizes the importance of trusted data for reliable AI. We've introduced Open Data Lakehouse for private cloud, incorporating Apache Iceberg for enhanced data management and security. This empowers analysts and data scientists with direct access to all data, including real-time streaming. Iceberg's capabilities reduce silos, lower storage costs, and mitigate business risks. We also focus on scalability, introducing features like snapshots and user quotas in Apache Ozone. Cloudera prioritizes enterprise readiness with Zero Downtime Upgrades and broader hardware and software support.
AWS, Qlik, and SAP Data: Turning the Lifeblood of Business into Value and Action
One of my favorite analogies is that data is the lifeblood of the business. Before you roll your eyes at me (I see it now), hear me out. At your annual physical, when you get your blood work done, think of how much information is uncovered about your overall health from a tiny vial of your blood. From those 10 CCs they extract comes back pages of information regarding your cell counts, glucose, cholesterol, and other information.
Applying Generative AI to product design with BigQuery DataFrames
Generative AI is a powerful tool for accelerating the branding process for new products or compounds.
Invert your Rightsizing: Optimizing Kubernetes Clusters
Optimizing Kubernetes clusters: invert your rightsizing with AWS Karpenter. Maximize efficiency, performance & your cloud infrastructure.
Fine-Tuning a Foundation Model for Multiple Tasks
In this video we discuss the reasons why fine-tuning is needed to create mroe contextual accurate LLMs, and the methods that you can do to accomplish this. We also give a demo of our newest Applied ML Prototype (AMP) which demonstrates how to implement LLM fine-tuning jobs that make use of the QLoRA and Accelerate implementations available in the PEFT open-source library from Huggingface and an example application that swaps the fine-tuned adapters in real time for inference targetting different tasks. Learn more at cloudera.com#ai #ml.
Low-Code AI Tools: 5 Key Benefits
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a seismic shift in the business landscape, largely due to the surge in popularity of large language models like ChatGPT. From predictive models that foster better decision-making to generative AI code tools that enable teams to build applications faster, AI offers incredible benefits to organizations. Businesses need to embrace this technology or risk falling behind their competitors.