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The Machine Learning Collaboration Tool You'll Want to Ride Solo - User Story

I’ll admit it. I am a gushing fan of this new product from Allegro AI called Allegro Trains. I’m not sure what to call it — what noun I should attach to this creature. “Framework” and “Platform” have become, to my ears, rather meaningless jargon designed to detach suit-wearing types from their money. “Harness” is close.

How Open Source Helps Bring Back Product Obsession

Did you know that one of the Sauce Labs co-founders created Selenium and that Appium was incubated in Sauce Labs? Open source is in our DNA! When a company relies heavily on open source, it is a common practice to develop strategies and long term goals to manage the relationship between the company’s products and the open source ecosystem.

Episode 9: Introduction to Indexes

In this episode, we learn about a very important technique for making database queries faster: indexes! Indexes are a very powerful technique and are critical to understanding how databases work under the hood. In this lesson we talk about how database indexes make use of the binary search algorithm to speed up queries. We also cover the trade-offs associated with using database indexes, and why it might not be a good idea to use too many indexes.

EP.1 The Past, Present, and Future of the Data Cloud w/ Frank Slootman, Chairman & CEO of Snowflake

As founder and CEO of Snowflake, Frank Slootman, has had a first-hand look at the rise of the data cloud. In fact, he helped coin the very term "data cloud." He is a pioneer in helping organizations migrate their data to the cloud, manage it there, and make it accessible for machine learning and other sophisticated analytics techniques. On this episode, Frank speaks about some of the powerful new capabilities enabled by the cloud data platform, including the ability to share data with ease and convenience that was not possible before. #RISEOFTHEDATACLOUD

Top 10 Best Node.js Open Source Projects to Keep an Eye On

NodeJS is a server-side platform that’s built on the JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine) of Google Chrome. It’s an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for JavaScript code execution outside the browser. The platform, being event-driven, works on a non-blocking I/O model, making it lightweight and effective in building web applications. With the platform, you could simultaneously run code on the client and server side, hastening the development process.