Tag: identity

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; Introduction In this post we will explore one approach to MySQL high availability with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator.Let’s briefly go over each piece of the puzzle first:– HAProxy is usually installed on the application servers or an intermediate connection layer, and is in charge of connecting the application to the appropriate backend (reader or writer). The most common deployment I’ve seen is to have separate ports for writes (which are routed to the master) and reads (which are load balanced over a pool of slaves).– Orchestrator’s role is to monitor the topology and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. At Amazon, our culture of innovation runs deep. It’s always Day 1, which means we are constantly looking around corners for the next big idea to help us innovate on behalf of our customers. From adding new capabilities, such as voice donations with Alexa, to developing over 1,400 new AWS services last year, our commitment to delivering the highest value to our customers is largely driven by our ability to think big.As we celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day, we are reminded of the powerful alliance between creativity and innovation, and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Gavin L. Simpson. Regular readers will know that I have a somewhat unhealthy relationship with GAMs and the mgcv package. I use these models all the time in my research but recently we’ve been hitting the limits of the range of models that mgcv can fit. So I’ve been looking into alternative ways to fit the GAMs I want to fit but which can handle the kinds of data or distributions that have been cropping up in our work. The brms package (Bürkner, 2017) is an excellent resource for modellers, providing a high-level R front end to ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: InsideMySQL.com; As you may have heard, MySQL 8.0 is now officially GA, and it comes with a bunch of additional goodies. Among those is the brand new Connector/Node.js, which is the official MySQL driver for Node.js and, currently, the only one with support for the latest server versions and features (such as the MySQL document store). Here’s a rundown of what’s available: Out-of-the box support for MySQL 8.0 Document-store API as a first-class citizen TLS/SSL and SHA256 authentication Fluent API with support for flexible parameters Semantic methods to encode common CRUD operations Modern Node.js asynchronous interface ... Read More

Feed: Blog. Author: Kim Brushaber; This week I had the honor to host the #SQLChat on Twitter on the topic of Data Governance.  Here's some quick highlights from hour long conversation:Q1) How do you define data governance? My response:  Data Governance is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models which describe who can take what actions with what information, and when, under what circumstances, using what methods. Others responded with: A set of processes and rules that define how data is entered into a system to ensure that a company makes the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arpan Shah. Today we’re at RSA, and we are delighted to sponsor and participate in this industry event centered in security. I thought I’d take the opportunity to share our perspective on cloud security with Azure. As we all know, companies worldwide are challenged by the ongoing volume of evolving security threats and with retaining qualified security talent to respond to these threats. In fact, the average large organization gets 17,000 security alerts each week, which results in an of average 99 days to discover security breaches. That contrasts with the less than 48 hours ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Gilad Elyashar. Migrating your workloads to the cloud can enable some inherent security benefits. With cloud scale machine learning and security analytics, you can mitigate threats quickly, making your environment more secure and your organization more productive. Azure Security Center provides centralized visibility of the security state of your resources and uses the collective intelligence from machine learning and advanced analytics to not only detect threats quickly but to help you prevent them. It’s agent-based approach helps gain deeper security insights from the workloads and extends these protections to workloads running on-premises as well as ... Read More

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . Apple introduced the “Hey Siri” feature with the iPhone 6 (iOS 8). This feature allows users to invoke Siri without having to press the home button. When a user says, “Hey Siri, how is the weather today?” the phone wakes up upon hearing “Hey Siri” and processes the rest of the utterance as a Siri request. The feature’s ability to listen continuously for the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase lets users access Siri in situations where their hands might be otherwise occupied, such as while driving or cooking, as well as in situations when their ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tom Keane. Today we’re letting our customers know about our upcoming Data Subject Request (DSR) processing capability in the Azure portal, which will provide tenant admins a simple, powerful tool to quickly fulfill the Data Subject Requests that are central to compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will fully support these DSR capabilities before May 25, 2018, the date when enforcement of the GDPR begins and when Microsoft has committed to be GDPR compliant across our cloud services. The GDPR is the most significant change to EU privacy law in ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jeff Bleiel. Times Square - NASDAQ (source: Luis Villa del Campo on Flickr) Check out the free webcast "Using artificial intelligence to fight financial crimes." In this episode of the O’Reilly Podcast, I talk with Simon Moss, vice president of industry consulting and solutions, Americas, at Teradata. We discuss how machine learning and deep learning techniques are being used to fight financial crimes, such as credit card fraud, identity theft, health care fraud, and money laundering. Discussion points: Moss says AI techniques are “a new set of weapons” against perpetrators of financial crime. “If ... Read More