Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. By integrating Amazon EventBridge with Falcon Horizon, CrowdStrike has developed a real-time, cloud-based solution that allows you to detect threats in less than a second. This solution uses AWS CloudTrail and EventBridge. CloudTrail allows governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easier to build event-driven applications at scale. In this blog post, we’ll cover the challenges presented by using traditional log file-based security monitoring. We will also discuss how CrowdStrike used EventBridge to create an innovative, real-time cloud security solution that enables high-speed, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Primary Key design is an important thing for InnoDB performance, and choosing a poor PK definition will have an impact on performance and also write propagation in databases. When this comes to Aurora, this impact is even worse than you may notice. In short, we consider a poor definition of a Primary Key in InnoDB as “anything but quasi sequential values”, which may cause very random access to data and thus increase the IO dependency. In this post, I’ll try to demonstrate the potential impact of the primary key design when running on ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. We’re excited to announce that in Amazon Forecast, you can now select the accuracy metric of your choice to direct AutoML to optimize training a predictor for the selected accuracy metric. Additionally, we have added three more accuracy metrics to evaluate your predictor – average weighted quantile loss (Average wQL), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), and mean absolute scaled error (MASE). Depending on the business operations and the accuracy metric that had traditionally been used in evaluating forecasts, customers preferred using different accuracy metrics for evaluating their predictors. Previously, customers understood the strength of their predictor by ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sam Malek. Customer engagement is evolving. Users want to ask and get answers to questions, learn about topics, complete tasks, and communicate via their preferred channel and at the time that is convenient for them. At the same time, public sector organizations are realizing that they need to innovate the way they support and engage their employees, users, and communities. They want to make information easier to access, improve user experience and engagement, expand their reach by supporting multiple communication channels, and improve efficiency and scalability through intelligent automation. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ron Cody. The term "fuzzy matching" describes a method of comparing two strings that might have slight differences, such as misspelling or a middle initial in a name included or not included. One of my favorite functions to compare the "closeness" of two strings is the SPEDIS (spelling distance) function. Have you ever misspelled a word in Microsoft Word? If so, the word is underlined in red (so they tell me, because I have never misspelled anything) and if you right-click on the word, you see a list of possible alternatives. The algorithm used is similar ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tony Shakib. Simplifying industrial IoT device connectivity has been top of mind for many of us at Microsoft. Recently we dramatically expanded our ability to support faster operational technology (OT) to cloud connectivity for up to 80 percent of all industrial equipment as part of our collaboration with key players in our partner ecosystem. This is big news—and something that everyone working on or selling IoT solutions should know as many companies struggle with connectivity implementation. Simply said, connecting existing industrial assets to the cloud just got a lot easier and you’ll save thousands of ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Stewart Bond. September 21, 2021 — I grew up in a family that did a lot of camping in recreational vehicles. My dad had this uncanny ability to go somewhere once, and never need a map to get back there again, so we never relied on maps when we went to our favorite campgrounds close to home. Once or twice a year we would do longer trips, going to places throughout North America, places my dad had never been, and so we relied on maps – paper maps! We also relied on a citizen’s band radio in ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; The new MyDumper 0.11.1 version, which includes many new features and bug fixes, is now available.  You can download the code from here. For this release, there are three main changes: 1) we added config file functionality which allows users to set session-level variables (one of the most requested features!), 2) we developed a better and robust import mechanism, and 3) we fixed all the filename related issues.  Those changes and mostly the last one forced us to change the version number from 0.10.9 to 0.11.1 as a backup taken in 0.10.x will ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the September 2021 update, time flies and it’s Fall already! Here, in the Pacific Northwest, the first leaves have turned red and started falling. In this update, we have exciting new things for buttons, line charts, and DAX functions. Also, Insights is new this month and we have added some new capabilities for Goals. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Analytics Modeling Data connectivity and preparation Service Mobile Developers Visualizations Paginated Reports Ideas forum updates  Check out the video below for this month’s summary: ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Barlow. Humans have wrestled with ethics for millennia. Each generation spawns a fresh batch of ethical dilemmas and then wonders how to deal with them. For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies. Despite growing awareness of its potential for causing harm, social media has received what amounts to a free pass on unethical behavior. Learn faster. Dig deeper. See ... Read More