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What is AWS Lambda Layer and How It Simplifies Serverless Development

AWS Lambda has become a cornerstone of serverless architecture, enabling developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. However, as applications grow, managing shared code, dependencies, and runtime configuration across multiple Lambda functions becomes challenging. This is where Lambda Layers step in to streamline development and deployment. In this blog we will explore what Lambda Layers are, why they are needed, how they work, and much more.

Unify Streaming and Analytical Data with Apache Iceberg, Confluent Tableflow, and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse

Earlier this year, we unveiled our vision for Tableflow to feed Apache Kafka streaming data into data lakes, warehouses, or analytical engines with a single click. Since then, many customers have been exploring, experimenting with, and providing valuable feedback on Tableflow Early Access. Our teams have worked tirelessly to incorporate this feedback and are excited to bring Tableflow Open Preview to you in the near future.

How Outsourced IT Services Helped a Growing Nonprofit Optimize Efficiency and Cut Costs

Small organizations, particularly nonprofits, often face challenges in managing their IT needs due to limited budgets and resources. This case study explores how a medium-sized nonprofit leveraged outsourced IT services to streamline operations, improve cybersecurity, and reduce operational costs, ultimately allowing the organization to focus on its mission.

Predictions 2025: Strategies to Realize the Promise of AI

Snowflake leaders offer insight on AI, open source and cybersecurity development — and the fundamental leadership skills required — in the years ahead. As we come to the end of a calendar year, it’s natural to contemplate what the new year will hold for us. It’s an understatement to say that the future is very hard to predict, but it’s possible to both prepare for the likeliest outcomes and stay ready to adapt to the unexpected.

Cloudera AI Inference Service Enables Easy Integration and Deployment of GenAI Into Your Production Environments

Welcome to the first installment of a series of posts discussing the recently announced Cloudera AI Inference service. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are more crucial than ever for organizations to turn data into a competitive advantage. To unlock the full potential of AI, however, businesses need to deploy models and AI applications at scale, in real-time, and with low latency and high throughput. This is where the Cloudera AI Inference service comes in.

Fueling the Future of GenAI with NiFi: Cloudera DataFlow 2.9 Delivers Enhanced Efficiency and Adaptability

For more than a decade, Cloudera has been an ardent supporter and committee member of Apache NiFi, long recognizing its power and versatility for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery. Our customers rely on NiFi as well as the associated sub-projects (Apache MiNiFi and Registry) to connect to structured, unstructured, and multi-modal data from a variety of data sources – from edge devices to SaaS tools to server logs and change data capture streams.

Cloudera announces 'Interoperability Ecosystem' with founding members AWS and Snowflake

Today enterprises can leverage the combination of Cloudera and Snowflake—two best-of-breed tools for ingestion, processing and consumption of data—for a single source of truth across all data, analytics, and AI workloads. But now AWS customers will gain more flexibility, data utility, and complexity, supporting the modern data architecture.

Why Short-Lived Connections Are Killing Your Performance! | Kafka Developer Mistakes

Constantly starting and stopping Apache Kafka producers and consumers? That’s a recipe for high resource usage and inefficiency. Short-lived connections are heavy on resources, and can slow down your whole cluster. Keep them running to boost performance, cut latency, and get the most out of your Kafka setup.