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Building a Data-Centric Platform for Generative AI and LLMs at Snowflake

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing many aspects of both developer and non-coder productivity with automation of repetitive tasks and fast generation of insights from large amounts of data. Snowflake users are already taking advantage of LLMs to build really cool apps with integrations to web-hosted LLM APIs using external functions, and using Streamlit as an interactive front end for LLM-powered apps such as AI plagiarism detection, AI assistant, and MathGPT.

Using Dead Letter Queues with SQL Stream Builder

Cloudera SQL Stream builder gives non-technical users the power of a unified stream processing engine so they can integrate, aggregate, query, and analyze both streaming and batch data sources in a single SQL interface. This allows business users to define events of interest for which they need to continuously monitor and respond quickly. A dead letter queue (DLQ) can be used if there are deserialization errors when events are consumed from a Kafka topic.

Creating a basic write back solution with Qlik Cloud

Using Qlik Cloud Analytics and Qlik Application Automation you can create sophisticated solutions to solve many business problems. With Qlik's new properties in the action button object, you can now execute an Application Automation workflow while passing parameter / value pairs to the workflow. Check out this simple walk-through to see an example of writing back data to a MS Azure SQL database.

SaaS In 60 - New filter, scheduler interval, write back and more!

This week we’ve added a new customizable filter object, a new interval in the scheduler for alerts and reloads, support for Parquet data files and the ability to execute an app automation workflow from a button object in Qlik Cloud Analytics with variable value passing which can be used for a number of advanced automated workflow use cases, including write back.

eBPF: The future of the service mesh and network innovation

The conversations around eBPF and how this technology will shape the future of the service mesh caused a huge buzz in the last year — yes, bee pun intended. eBPF lets you run sandboxed programs in an operating system kernel. Imagining how eBPF could improve the service mesh brings exciting possibilities, but it also raises security and operational concerns given the current state and limitations of eBPF.

Managing technical debt: How to go from 12 BI tools to 1

CIOs are fed up with having a plethora of BI and analytics tools with business units seemingly chasing the shiniest new solution. And although most industry surveys show data and analytics budgets continuing to grow despite a faltering economy, there is closer scrutiny and belt tightening to rid teams of overlapping capabilities. Here’s a look at how BI tool portfolios have become such a mess and how to streamline them.