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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Elio Narciso. By Elio Narciso, Sr. Partner Developer Manager, APN Startups at AWSMid- to late-stage startups need to move at a fast pace in order to compete with much larger companies. To help businesses build, market, and sell faster with Amazon Web Services (AWS), we developed the APN Global Startup Program. This program is invite-only and helps startups become enterprise-ready with prescriptive benefits, simplified paths to meeting foundational requirements for the AWS Partner Network (APN), and a robust set of resources to help startups significantly accelerate their growth. The APN is the global ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; MySQL does its best to return requested bytes as fast as possible. However, it needs human help to identify what is important and should be accessed in the first place. Queries, written smartly, can significantly outperform automatically generated ones. Indexes and Optimizer statistics, not limited to the Histograms only, help increase the speed of the query.Join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer for MySQL Sveta Smirnova on Thurs, Dec 5th from 10 to 11 am PST to learn how MySQL query performance can be improved through the utilization of Developer and DevOps tools. In addition, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Geo-scale MySQL – or how to build a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end capable of serving hundreds of player accountsThis blog introduces a series of blogs we’ll be publishing over the next few months that discuss a number of different customer use cases that our solutions support and that centre around achieving continuous MySQL operations with commercial-grade high availability (HA), geographically redundant disaster recovery (DR) and global scaling. This first use case looks at a customer of ours who are a global gaming company with several hundred million world-wide player accounts. What is the challenge? ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Fabian Dablander. [This article was first published on Fabian Dablander, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Causal inference goes beyond prediction by modeling the outcome of interventions and formalizing counterfactual reasoning. In this blog post, I provide an introduction to the graphical approach to causal inference in the tradition of Sewell Wright, Judea Pearl, and others. We first rehash the common adage that correlation is not causation. We ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Anil Murching. Azure Media Services provides a platform with which you can broadcast live events. You can use our APIs to ingest, transcode, and dynamically package and encrypt your live video feeds for delivery via industry-standard protocols like HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) and MPEG-DASH. You can also use our APIs to integrate with CDNs and deliver to millions of concurrent viewers. Customers are using this platform for scenarios ranging from multi-day sporting events and entire seasons of professional sports, to webinars and town-hall meetings. Live transcriptions is a new preview feature in our v3 APIs, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sean Lopp. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Earlier this month we announced RStudio Package Manager version 1.1.0, a majorupdate to RStudio Package Manager that added support for: Faster package installs on Linux with pre-compiled binaries Easier installs through the display of system requirements A calendar of repository checkpoints to make it easier to reproduce work This patch release updates ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: shikha-garg; The future of banking is transforming. From changing customer behavior and expectations, rapid innovation in digital technology, burgeoning regulatory requirements, and the macroeconomic environment, the very definition of financial services is changing. For banks to stay relevant, they need to build responsive, multi-channel customer experiences and provide differentiated services and capabilities in time while participating and collaborating within emerging ecosystems. To achieve this, financial institutions need to radically transform and reinvent, integrating digital technologies to modernize their systems and operations and to establish open banking—all in a secure, fast ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Jamie Gale; Dark Reading recently published an article describing the top five near-term priorities according to a group of seven CISOs. We think this compilation of concerns is pretty accurate—it certainly encompasses what we’re hearing from our customers.  This list is interesting not just because of its insight, but also because it signals progress. In general, organizations who are further along in their cloud journeys will share these concerns. Learn more about the four stages of the enterprise cloud journey by watching our recent webinar. Not surprisingly, the CISOs’ first priority is identity management in a multi-cloud ... Read More

Author: mkysel. What does NuoDB do?TL;DR: NuoDB is a distributed SQL database.  NuoDB is a SQL database, it is fully transactional, fully ACID, and fully consistent. This is a stark contrast to NoSQL solutions that have emerged in the last decade. NuoDB is distributed, meaning that it is able to scale horizontally and automatically keeps multiple replicas in sync. Having multiple replicas of a database is a strict requirement for any service having 99.99% or better availability guarantees. Do you run in the cloud? NuoDB runs on all public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), on private clouds, and on-prem. We ... Read More

Author: . What does NuoDB do?TL;DR: NuoDB is a distributed SQL database.  NuoDB is a SQL database, it is fully transactional, fully ACID, and fully consistent. This is a stark contrast to NoSQL solutions that have emerged in the last decade. NuoDB is distributed, meaning that it is able to scale horizontally and automatically keeps multiple replicas in sync. Having multiple replicas of a database is a strict requirement for any service having 99.99% or better availability guarantees. Do you run in the cloud? NuoDB runs on all public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.), on private clouds, and on-prem. We ... Read More