Category: Big Data Applications

Feed: Apple Machine Learning Journal. Author: . Many language-related tasks, such as entering text on your iPhone, discovering news articles you might enjoy, or finding out answers to questions you may have, are powered by language-specific natural language processing (NLP) models. To decide which model to invoke at a particular point in time, we must perform language identification (LID), often on the basis of limited evidence, namely a short character string. Performing reliable LID is more critical than ever as multi-lingual input is becoming more and more common across all Apple platforms. In most writing scripts — like Latin and ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Peter Haagenson. I’ve been looking forward to heading back to Las Vegas for months now!  VMworld always falls at that perfect time to put big money down on the Vikings to win the Super Bowl, make some last-minute predictions on the World Series and of course, see some great shows! Wait, what’s that?  VMworld is back in San Francisco this year?  But I had a suite reserved at The Delano, and bought non-refundable first row tickets to the Michael Jackson show. Oh well, I guess I’ll change my ticket to San Francisco and hope to see ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . Numerous customer service applications – from manufacturing to order fulfillment – require recognition of faces and objects. Customer service robots need to recognize faces and associate them with customer data to provide personalized assistance. Tasks that are simple for any human child had traditionally been quite difficult for robots. Cloud-Based Recognition Platforms Today, cloud-based systems like Amazon Rekognition enable enterprise robots to interpret their surroundings more accurately. Rekognition uses the Amazon Kinesis Video Streams robot OS (ROS) extension to stream live video data from the robots of AWS RoboMaker subscribers. It then identifies and ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. For any given task, there are many tools you can use. But few are the right tools. If you’re in IT, you’ve probably heard the saying “Use the right tool for the job.” In architects’ meetings, this sentence echoes from one corner to the other. In my career, I’ve heard it more times than I can count. And the wisdom behind it has stood the test of time. That’s because when it comes to how data is stored, it’s not one-tool-fits-all for every type of data. In this post, you’re going to learn about MongoDB ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . The healthcare AI stream at the AI Summit in London during June provided a fascinating look at how AI is being used to solve real healthcare problems. Consider some of the meta challenges of healthcare: overwhelming amounts of poorly connected data; the unpredictable nature of sickness and wellness; longer life expectancy; and costs. Now consider some of the strengths of AI: disparate data analysis and prediction and the automation of mundane, redundant tasks. There is perhaps no other field where AI could have such a significant positive impact on outcomes. Two cases discussed at ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger.  Monitoring MongoDB Made easy Maintaining the health and performance of your IT infrastructure can be one of the biggest headaches you face in your time as an IT professional. With so many moving parts it can be nearly impossible to keep track of them all and how they interact with each other making it quite difficult to efficiently and successfully monitor MongoDB. One day you may log into your MongoDB environment and it’s not returning your queries, or you’re not getting the results you expected. Now you have to figure out why this is ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. RabbitMQ is a great tool to have for resilient message passing in your system instead of HTTP calls that can get lost in the void. It also sets you up nicely to drive your systems with events for looser coupling among workflow steps. In this post, we’re going to look at how we can quickly get RabbitMQ up and running when using Google Cloud Platform, also known as GCP. First, we’ll look at what options we have to install RabbitMQ. Then we’ll look at how to run and connect to it. After that, we’ll talk ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: bluemedora_editor. Relational databases have commonly been an essential component of every application. Cloud vendors like GCP have a service for relational databases. GCP’s relational database offering is GCP Cloud SQL, which is a managed service for relational databases similar to RDS from AWS. Traditionally, you had to manage and operate a lot of things when working with databases on-premises. This includes things like installing and configuring the database engine, taking backups periodically, monitoring servers, patching servers, upgrading servers, etc. With a managed service like Cloud SQL or RDS, almost everything is the responsibility of the cloud vendor. Maybe ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Mark Johnston. Our third and final blog post from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference reflects on another major theme across many of the sessions: the power of collaboration. Colgate-Palmolive’s Ann Tracy opened her presentation with an important piece of context: Up to 70% of data gathered at manufacturing sites goes unused. That sounds negative, but the reality is that it’s a perfect analogy. In today’s digital landscape, you can’t use 100% of your data; it just isn’t viable, or necessary. Instead, it’s about using the analytics that you do have in a realistic manner. What is ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. Nature’s long awaited summer update is finally here. While you throw bundles of logs on your summer bonfires, our team has thrown some new log bundles to stoke the  BindPlane for Stackdriver fire. Since its summer we thought we would cook you up some delicious new features for our summer BindPlane Barbecue. Tired of the summer analogies yet? Well better get used to them, they are here to stay for the foreseeable future, just like summer! Now, time for the BindPlane June Update. Log source bundles June was a busy month for the Logs ... Read More