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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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Ascend.io lands $31M to automate data pipeline orchestration

TechCrunch

“[I] previously cofounded Ooyala and served as their CTO for eight years … From that experience, it was clear that every company was rapidly becoming a data company, and that there was a tremendous shortage of talent available to assist companies on their journey,” Knapp told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO

“Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend.

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Build a contextual chatbot for financial services using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, Llama 2 and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless with Vector Engine

AWS Machine Learning - AI

We also use Vector Engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (currently in preview) as the vector data store to store embeddings. Asynchronous updates – To ensure the reference documents remain current, they can be updated asynchronously along with their embedding representations. An OpenSearch Serverless collection.

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How 20 Minutes empowers journalists and boosts audience engagement with generative AI on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Storm serves as the front end for Nova, our serverless content management system (CMS). Our technical solution At 20 Minutes, we’ve been using AWS since 2017, and we aim to build on top of serverless services whenever possible. One of our key goals is to provide our journalists with a best-in-class digital publishing experience.

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Azure container Apps: The future of Microservices in Azure?

Xebia

Combining these two trends in the market explains why technologies such as Serverless became popular. Serverless helps in reducing the amount of moving parts you must manage as a development team. . Function apps are serverless applications that run based on triggers such as http requests, timers or messages in a queue.

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So you’re a new CISO? Let’s navigate your first 90 days

Lacework

What we really mean when we refer to “zero trust” is that you should commit to continuous permissions pruning and implement a mix of perimeter-based and fine-grained, identity-centric controls. Under the hood, these are serverless functions — in AWS, it’s Lambda). Ask what they care about. Ask what they think hasn’t been working.