According to Armand Ruiz, IBM has completed 1,000+ Generative AI projects in 2023. Top use cases include:▪️ Customer-facing functions and experiences- Customer service: Empower customers to find solutions with easy, compelling experiences. Automate answers with 95% accuracy- Marketing: Increase personalization, and improve efficiency across the content...

Scylla and Cassandra are both open-source, distributed NoSQL databases designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers. They are often compared due to their similar data models and use cases.Scylla offers the horizontal scale-out and fault-tolerance of Apache Cassandra but delivers 10X the throughput.Scylla achieves the same throughput...

The free online beginner-level self-paced course Networking Basics from the Cisco Networking Academy is of 22 hours duration with 13 labs. It has the following modules:My Knowledge Check (beta)Course IntroductionModule 1: Communication in a Connected World1.0. Introduction1.1. Network Types1.2. Data Transmission1.3. Bandwidth and Throughput1.4. Communications...

Key points from the ScyllaDB technical paper SQL to NoSQL: Architecture Differences and Considerations for Migration [PDF] - While RDBMSs are not fit for distributed deployments, non-relational databases are designed specifically to support such topologies.A number of alternative non-relational database systems have been proposed, including Google’s...

This Week I Learned - * IBM has bought HashiCorp. HashiCorp Cloud Platform (the hosted Terraform, Vault, etc that HC manages themselves, their nominal secret sauce) runs on AWS today.* Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that makes creating machine learning models fast, easy, and accessible to everyone. The first version of Teachable Machine from...

The DataIsBeautiful subreddit is a thriving hub for data enthusiasts, boasting over 21 million members passionate about visualizations. What truly distinguishes this community is the captivating blend of wisdom and humor found in the comments section. The feedback from the community is a delightful blend of insightful observations and witty, snarky...