Tag: startup

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Pgpool-II is a cluster management tool for PostgreSQL that can cache connections to PostgreSQL servers. This blog introduces Pgpool-II connection pooling feature and shows how to configure connection pooling in Pgpool-II.What is connection pooling? Establishing and maintaining Database connections are expensive. The reason is that you have to establish a network connection, perform authentication and so on. Database connection pooling is a cache of database connections to keep database connections open so that the connection can be reused when a connection is required by a future request.Reusing an active connection rather than establishing a new connection each ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Rafael Knuth. "If you want to learn something well, explain it." Richard Feynman What is TensorFlow? Let's look it up on the TensorFlow.org page: "It's an end-to-end open-source machine learning platform for everyone." When TensorFlow version 2.0 came out in 2019, it was praised as a significant step towards the democratization of AI: "Now anyone can get their hands on the steering wheel!" When we sat down together to draft this article series, we asked ourselves: "Who is anyone?" We hardly believe it's literally anyone. As the NY Mag recently wrote: ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Flanakin. Whether you're a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you're spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management + Billing comes in. We're always looking for ways to learn more about your challenges and how Azure Cost Management + Billing can help you better understand where you're accruing costs in the cloud, identify and prevent bad spending patterns, and optimize costs to empower ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. The upcoming PostgreSQL 13 includes a lot of new features, as a very consolidated habit in every release. One interesting feature among the others is that EXPLAIN now supports a new WAL option (that requires ANALYZE to be set). This new WAL feature allows EXPLAIN to provide information about the generated amount of WAL traffic. It is quite simple to see it in action: testdb=> CREATE TABLE foo( i int generated always as identity, t text ); testdb=> EXPLAIN ( ANALYZE, WAL, FORMAT yaml ) INSERT INTO foo( t ) SELECT md5( v::text ) FROM generate_series( 1, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Iain Rouse. The rapid acceleration of digital transformation has raised expectations for efficient and effective engagement with service providers. Many expect the same engagement with government agencies as they do from consumer services such as video-on-demand, ecommerce, and online food delivery. In Australia, the government is prioritising delivering services through technology in a fast and secure way. To help, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) under the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) introduced the Cloud Services Certification Program (CSCP), to assess cloud services on the ability to secure data across government departments. Using this program, ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. Hi graph gang, In this week’s video, Amy Hodler interviews Dr. Alessandro Negro about his new book, Graph-Powered Machine Learning. Michael Hunger explains the power of subqueries in Neo4j 4, Matt Cockayne explains how to pre-populate Neo4j with data using Kubernetes Init Containers, and the Matthias Mann Lab has created a graph of the Proteome Landscape of the Kingdoms of Life. And finally, Jasper Blues has started a series of blog posts showing how to build a Neo4j-powered mobile game. Cheers, Mark, Karin, and the Developer Relations team This week’s featured community ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is courtesy of Giuseppe Angelo Porcelli, Principal ML Specialist SA, and Diego Natali, Solutions Architect.Amazon EFS for AWS Lambda makes it easier for serverless applications requiring persistent file storage or access to large amounts of reference data. Previously, applications had to download data from an object store or database to local ephemeral storage in 512-MB chunks for processing. This creates more code, causes slower startup behavior, and slower data processing. Customers also faced challenges when loading large code packages and models for ML inference. Recently, AWS announced Amazon EFS support for ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Megan Darmody. Whether you’re a first time founder or a seasoned entrepreneur, launching a startup comes with its own set of unique challenges. Building a startup requires a great idea, planning, funding and a bit of elbow grease. Lack of resources often leads founders to look for external support in an accelerator or incubator program.Accelerators offer unique programs known to support early-stage or more established businesses with education, mentorship and financing. The support to scale and reach a wider audience is crucial for startups who need that extra push.Incubators, on the other hand, are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: John Boynton. Each year, millions of students travel abroad to study and enrich their personal development and global perspective through international student exchange programs. Virtual exchange is becoming an important part of digital learning environments due to its student-centered, cost-effective, and equitable means of advancing international education. ImmerseU is a virtual exchange learning platform developed by Class2Class, an AWS EdStart Member. The platform helps colleges and universities create and enhance collaborations through its online environment, by fostering cooperation globally across classrooms, nonprofits, governments, and the private sector. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Class2Class created ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Metrics Module enables you to collect and publish key performance metrics recorded automatically by the SDK. These metrics will help you detect and diagnose issues in your applications, such as increased API call latency and startup time. For more information please visit our blog post and developer guide ... Read More