ARTICLES
Dear IT Departments, Please Stop Trying To Build Your Own RAG | 7 min | RAG | Alden Do Rosario | Towards AI
Building a RAG system in-house may seem tempting, but it’s a costly, complex endeavor. Alden Do Rosario explains why enterprise-ready solutions save resources and sanity.
From Data to Insights: Segmenting Airbnb’s Supply | 9 min | Data Science | Alexandre Salama, Tim Abraham | The Airbnb Tech Blog
Discover how Airbnb uses data-driven segmentation to cluster millions of listings into actionable insights, improving recommendations and marketing strategies.
Unlocking the power of time-series data with multimodal models | 5 min | ML | Mathias Bellaiche, Data Scientist, Marc Wilson | Google Research
Explore how multimodal models like Gemini Pro revolutionize time-series analysis with visual plots, improving efficiency and accuracy.
TUTORIALS
Smarter Data, Brighter Decisions: Data Quality Tools Comparison | Data Quality | GetInData | Part of Xebia
This white paper explores how AI and machine learning tools can help fix data quality issues, streamline operations, and boost decision-making. Compare Monte Carlo vs. Colibra vs. Talented Data Fabric vs. Ataccama One vs. Dataprep by Trifacta vs. AWS Glue Databrew
TUTORIALS
Content Drive — How we organize and share billions of files in Netflix studio | 10 min | Cloud Storage | Esha Palta, Ankur Khetrapal, Shannon Heh, Isabell Lin, Shunfei Chen | Netflix Engineering Blog
Learn how Netflix organizes billions of files globally with Content Drive, powered by CockroachDB.
Hexagonal Architecture: A Practical Guide | 7 min | Software Architecture | Mikhail Georgievskii | Booking Engineering Blog
Learn how Hexagonal Architecture boosts scalability, modularity, and maintainability in complex software systems.
NEWS
New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads | 6 min | Software Architecture | Jeff Barr | AWS Blog
AWS introduces S3 Tables for faster, more efficient data queries, seamlessly integrating with Athena and EMR.
LF AI & Data Foundation Announces Graduation of Kedro Project| 3 min | ML | LF AI & Data Blog
Kedro, an open-source Python framework for data science pipelines, has graduated within the LF AI & Data Foundation, highlighting its maturity, global impact, and growth through community engagement and key integrations.
PODCAST
Bridging the Gap Between Data Engineers and Analysts, and More | 1 h 2 min | Data Engineering | Matthew Mullins | Ternary Data
Join Matthew Mullins (CTO, Coginiti) as he discusses small data, the devops-data learning curve, and more.
CONFS EVENTS AND MEETUPS
ClickHouse Meetup in Stockholm | Stockholm | 9th December
Join the ClickHouse meetup in Stockholm for expert talks on data analytics, real-time use cases, and migrations, plus networking over food and drinks.
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