For many organizations, implementing AI is not an “if” but a “when.” Determining the “when” piece depends on many factors, but one that may be tricky to scope is “when we are ready?.” Is it when your workloads are in the cloud? When your team has the skills? When it’s a good fit for your […]
Archives for January 2024
Advancing application reliability with performance testing in Azure
Performance testing is instrumental in ensuring a consistent and reliable user experience. The role of performance testing is pivotal as it assesses an application’s responsiveness, stability, and speed under varying conditions. By simulating different user loads and scenarios, performance testing acts as a proactive measure to identify potential bottlenecks, ensuring that the application can handle […]
Microsoft named a Leader in cloud and applications-centric marketplaces: IDC MarketScape
With budgets for cloud services expanding and the complexity of infrastructure rising, marketplaces are positioned as the future of B2B commerce. Industry analysts are taking note—most recently IDC published its first-ever IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud and Applications-Centric Marketplaces 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc # US51037123, December 2023). The Microsoft commercial marketplace was named a Leader in […]
Spotify’s Approach to Leverage Recursive Embedding and Clustering to Enhanced Data Explainability
One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable insight from their data for decision-making. Spotify shares its methodology and experience to solve this problem by clustering diverse data sets through a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning. By Reza Rahimi
Shopify’s Approach to Leverage Recursive Embedding and Clustering to Enhanced Data Explainability
One of the main challenges of any online business is to get actionable insight from their data for decision-making. Shopify shares its methodology and experience to solve this problem by clustering diverse data sets through a unique method involving dimensionality reduction, recursion, and supervised machine learning. By Reza Rahimi
Dynatrace and the Microsoft commercial marketplace: AI-powered cloud transformation
In today’s digital landscape, the cloud has become a cornerstone for over 90%1 of organizations. This widespread adoption brings a growing complexity to cloud portfolios as companies navigate the challenges of migrating on-premises environments, managing hybrid workloads, and modernizing their cloud estate—all while operating under current business imperatives of speed and scale. To overcome this, […]
Netflix Creates Incremental Processing Solution Using Maestro and Apache Iceberg
Netflix created a new solution for incremental processing in its data platform. The incremental approach reduces the cost of computing resources and execution time significantly as it avoids processing complete datasets. The company used its Maestro workflow engine and Apache Iceberg to improve data freshness and accuracy and plans to provide managed backfill capabilities. By […]