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Bringing an AI Product to Market

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The first step in building an AI solution is identifying the problem you want to solve, which includes defining the metrics that will demonstrate whether you’ve succeeded. It sounds simplistic to state that AI product managers should develop and ship products that improve metrics the business cares about. Agreeing on metrics.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

Storing events in a stream and connecting streams via stream processors provide a generic, data-centric, distributed application runtime that you can use to build ETL, event streaming applications, applications for recording metrics and anything else that has a real-time data requirement. Building the KPay payment system.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 2: Programming Models for the Event-Driven Architecture

Confluent

Rather, we apply different event planes to provide orthogonal aspects of system design such as core functionality, operations and instrumentation. You not only monitor the happy path but also track all other aspects like error handling with dead letter queues, business metrics and flow metrics. Event-driven architecture.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

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Carson and Suchter illustrate this challenge in Effective Multi-Tenant Distributed Systems : Truly useful monitoring for multi-tenant distributed systems must track hardware usage metrics at a sufficient level of granularity for each interesting process on each node.

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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

They do not modify the input, they do not have any side effects other than producing the output, and the files are written once, in a sequential fashion. MapReduce jobs read and write files on a distributed file system. There are similarities between how MapReduce works and how the piped-together Unix tools work.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

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Trendy, fashionable things are often a flash in the pan, forgotten or regretted a year or two later (like Pet Rocks or Chia Pets ). New frameworks appear every day (literally), and our corporate clients won’t suddenly tell their staff to reimplement the ecommerce site just because last year’s hot framework is no longer fashionable.

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Technology Trends for 2022

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Content usage, whether by title or our taxonomy, is based on an internal “units viewed” metric that combines all our content forms: online training courses, books, videos, Superstream online conferences, and other new products. But that isn’t a good metric. We saw that play out on our platform. Mark us cautiously skeptical.

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