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What is a Kafka Consumer and How does it work?

Now that your data is inside your Kafka cluster, how do you get it out? In this video, Dan Weston covers the basics of Kafka Consumers: what consumers are, how they get your data flowing, and best practices for configuring consumers in a real-time data streaming system. You will also learn about offsets, consumer groups, and partition assignment.

The Snowflake Government & Education Data Cloud

In order to deliver on their missions, public agencies and departments must modernize IT to improve citizen services, streamline operational inefficiencies, drive research and innovation, and enable data collaboration across and beyond organizational lines. Unfortunately, the ability of public sector organizations to generate value from data is hindered by several challenges, including technical delays caused by legacy IT infrastructure, policy roadblocks, and institutional status quos. The public sector needs a protected, scalable, and flexible platform to centralize, govern, and securely share mission-critical data.

How Financial Services and Retail Companies Are Accelerating their Data, Apps and AI Strategy in the Data Cloud

Last year, we held our first Accelerate event, to explore industry trends, data and technology innovations, and data strategy case studies in financial services. This year, we are expanding to five industry events, featuring leaders in financial services; retail and consumer goods; manufacturing; media, advertising and entertainment; and healthcare and life sciences. Accelerate Financial Services and Accelerate Retail are one-day virtual events brought to you by Microsoft.

How to choose best technology stack for mobile app?

In the ever-evolving world of tech, there's a critical decision that both businesses and developers grapple with - choosing the perfect tech stack for developing mobile apps. But why does this decision weigh so heavily on everyone's minds? Well, it all boils down to how this choice impacts the performance, scalability, and security of mobile applications. Choosing the appropriate tools requires delving into your app requirements alongside a thorough analysis of the end goal.

Build Pipelines series: How to conditionally run workflows in Bitrise Pipelines

Dive deeper into our Bitrise build pipeline series with a focus on conditionally running workflows for optimized CI/CD processes. Discover how to use resources more efficiently, achieve faster build times, and enhance your deployment strategy.

Integrating Realm Swift into Your iOS Projects: A Comprehensive Guide

If you’re building for mobile apps, you need Realm in your life. It’s specifically designed for mobile devs and even though it’s available on multiple platforms, it’s typically used to develop iOS apps, using Swift. Built on top of SQLite Realm Swift is a very high-level abstraction layer that simplifies database operations for the developer. Today we’re going to unpack it, with a guide that drills so far down into the subject, it’s practically in Australia.

AI and RAG with Gemma, Ollama, and Logi Symphony

Local LLMs are becoming mainstream with sites like HuggingFace promoting open sharing of trained LLMs. These LLMs are often very small but still extremely accurate, especially for domain-specific tasks like medicine, finance, law, and others. Gemma is a multi-purpose LLM and, while small, is competitive and accurate. Local LLMs also have the advantage of being completely run inside your own environment.

Navigating AI-Driven Claims Processing

95% of insurers are currently accelerating their digital transformation with AI-driven claims processing. Traditionally, this process involved manual steps such as claim initiation, data entry, validation, decision-making, and payout, consuming significant time and resources. However, the introduction of AI has replaced tedious manual work, enabling companies to streamline their tasks efficiently.

Establishing A Robust Data Foundation To Maximize The Benefits Of Gen AI

Newly appointed Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy joins Snowflake's Director of Engineering Mona Attariyan and "Data Cloud Now" anchor Ryan Green to discuss the need for organizations to prepare themselves to take full advantage of Gen AI by implementing a carefully developed data strategy that eliminates data silos and promotes data sharing while protecting data privacy.