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Attunity Data Leak: Vendor for half the Fortune 100 exposed terabyte of backups
Backups ensure data continuity, but they're also a surface of risk. See how Fortune 100 vendor Attunity exposed nearly a terabyte of internal backups.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,338 posts.
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Why we're ending support for MySQL
GitLab will be ending support for MySQL starting with our 12.1 release – here's why.
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Data-as-a-Service: Running DaaS Companies
A complete guide to building and running a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) company. Learn DaaS economics, market dynamics, data acquisition models, transformation, delivery, and how to achieve market dominance.
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Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
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The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source
And how your reporters can learn to love spreadsheets, too
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Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
In 2010, Google engineers Daniel Peng & Frank Dabek published Large-scale Incremental Processing Using Distributed Transactions and Notifications , which described Percolator: a Google-internal database for random access transactional workloads where low latencies are not required. Percolator uses a global…
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Google to Acquire Looker
Google to acquire Looker, a unified platform for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
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Using machine learning to estimate lost demand in a fulfillment chain
How Instacart uses Machine Learning to spot lost demand in its fulfillment chain
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Random Forest vs. Neural Network
Choosing between Random Forest and Neural Network depends on the data type. Random Forest suits tabular data, while Neural Network excels with images, audio, and text data.
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Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning
ATMSeer is an interactive visualization tool for users to see and control algorithms and hyperparameters of machine-learning (AutoML) systems. The work was developed by researchers in the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and Zhejiang…
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PostgreSQL 12 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 12 is now available for download. This …
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The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensible force in building software businesses. So of course, we constantly hear about the combination of the two: “data…
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
The questions we often hear are "Why create a new query language?" and "What's wrong with SQL?". This blog post contains answers to both.
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PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 11.3, 10.8, …
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Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
Every monitoring system has to deal with three kinds of performance-related challenges. Firstly, a good monitoring system must receive, process and record incoming data very quickly. Every microsecond counts here. This may not seem obvious from the start but when your system becomes large enough all the tiny fractions…
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Optimizing Magic Pocket for cold storage
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Understanding Bloom Filters with Pharo
From Moldable Development to Media for Thought
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Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2019
This review looks at the Q1 2019 and lifetime hard drive failure rates of the 104,325 data drive models currently in operation in our data centers.
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EDB Postgres AI
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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PostgreSQL Features to Try
pgDash is an in-depth monitoring solution designed specifically for PostgreSQL deployments. pgDash shows you information and metrics about every aspect of your PostgreSQL database server, collected using the open-source tool pgmetrics.