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AWS EC2 instance types: Challenges and best practices for hosting your applications in AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

When it comes to hosting applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most important decisions you will need to make is which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type to choose. Furthermore, you need to know how the applications each EC2 instance will host are designed to scale.

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Implement data warehousing solution using dbt on Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

dbt (DataBuildTool) offers this mechanism by introducing a well-structured framework for data analysis, transformation and orchestration. It also applies general software engineering principles like integrating with git repositories, setting up DRYer code, adding functional test cases, and including external libraries.

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7 Enterprise Applications for Companies Using Cloud Technology

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology results in lower costs, quicker service delivery, and faster network data streaming. It also allows companies to offload large amounts of data from their networks by hosting it on remote servers anywhere on the globe. Testing new programs. Centralized data storage. Big data analytics.

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Cloud infrastructure sales rise as Microsoft closes in on AWS

CIO Business Intelligence

Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics , machine learning , data center consolidation and cloud-native app developmen t, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 billion in the second quarter, according to Canalys. billion out of $62.3 Cloud providers build out infrastructure.

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Foote Partners: bonus disparities reveal tech skills most in demand in Q3

CIO Business Intelligence

The top-earning skills were big data analytics and Ethereum, with a pay premium of 20% of base salary, both up 5.3% Other non-certified skills attracting a pay premium of 19% included data engineering , the Zachman Framework , Azure Key Vault and site reliability engineering (SRE). in the previous six months. since March.

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NLP Isn’t Enough. Leading Financial Services Companies Are Now Moving to Conversational AI.

CIO Business Intelligence

The very best conversational AI systems come close to passing the Turing test , that is, they are very difficult to distinguish from a human being. . In some parts of the world, companies are required to host conversational AI applications and store the related data on self-managed servers rather than subscribing to a cloud-based service.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Weston uses uplift modeling, running a series of A/B tests to determine how potential customers respond to different offers, and then uses the results of those tests to build the model. The size of the data sets is limited by business concerns. Data analytics lead Diego Cáceres urges caution about when to use AI.