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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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John Snow Labs is All In on Generative AI, Achieving 82M Spark NLP Downloads, 5x NLP Lab Growth, and New State-of-the-Art LLM Accuracy Benchmarks

John Snow Labs

The shift across John Snow Labs’ product suite has resulted in several notable company milestones over the past year including: 82 million downloads of the open-source Spark NLP library. Monthly downloads increased by 60% since the 5.0 Follow John Snow Labs and #NLPSummit on LinkedIn for the latest news and updates.

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John Snow Labs Releases Spark NLP 5, Setting New Speed & Scalability Records for Building Private LLM Applications

John Snow Labs

Spark NLP provides the fastest calculation of such embeddings currently available to the open-source community, as well as a set of pre-trained, state-of-the-art models. State-of-the-Art Accuracy, 100% Open Source The Spark NLP Models Hub now includes over 500 ONYX-optimized models.

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Evolving django-multitenant to build scalable SaaS apps on Postgres & Citus

The Citus Data

This library, actively used since 2017 and now downloaded more than 10K times per month, offers a simple and flexible solution for building multi-tenant Django applications. Scalability : Design a scalable database architecture, partition data, and manage concurrent access to handle increasing tenant load.

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Shopify acquires Remix to bolster its storefront design tools

TechCrunch

Remix , a startup developing an open source web framework similar to Next.js , has been acquired by Shopify, the companies announced in a joint statement today. The two worked together for years creating open source tools around React, a JavaScript library for building app UIs, before deciding to launch the eponymous Remix framework.

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History of MongoDB

The Crazy Programmer

MongoDB and is the open-source server product, which is used for document-oriented storage. Their initial development was mainly focused on building Platform as a Service, soon MongoDB came out as the open-source server that was very well- maintained by the organization. Mongo is a word that is derived from the Humongous.

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Patroni 3.0 & Citus: Scalable, Highly Available Postgres

The Citus Data

Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that makes PostgreSQL scalable by transparently distributing and/or replicating tables across one or more PostgreSQL nodes. Citus could be used either on Azure cloud, or since the Citus database extension is fully open source, you can download and install Citus anywhere you like.