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In today's edition:

  • ๐Ÿค–AIOps: How AI is Reshaping IT Operations

  • ๐Ÿ’ปSetting up a Remote Dev with Google Chrome and DigitalOcean

  • ๐Ÿ”Postgres Performance Boost: HOT Updates and Fill Factor

  • ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—ฃ๐—œ๐˜€?

  • ๐Ÿš€ parquet โ€“ A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age

  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Databricks LLM tops the leaderboard

  • ๐Ÿ‘‘ Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $2.75B

  • ๐Ÿค– AI Tools and Data Tools

  • ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ A.I. Generated Image of the Day

Take control of your AWS spend and cut backup bills by 50%

As cloud adoption increases to run modernized applications, costs can quickly rise out of control. How do best-in-class companies manage their storage spend while continuing to grow the business? Clumio, a cloud-native backup solution, depends on cloud storage to run their entire business. They took a FinOps approach to optimizing their costs, and reduced their AWS dev costs by over 50%.

AIOps utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to streamline and elevate IT operations. By amalgamating data from various sources, including application performance, infrastructure, and user behavior, AIOps provide real-time insights and analysis


The article discusses the benefits of setting up a remote development environment, such as increased portability and cost savings, as well as the ability to give other developers access to your machine. It outlines the author's experience in setting up a remote development environment using DigitalOcean and Google Chrome.

This post reviews HOT updates, what they are, how they work, and how you can put them to use for a performance improvement.

APIs have increasingly become the backbone of modern software.

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Apache Parquet, the de facto standard for tabular data exchange, uses a binary, columnar, and compressed data representation and comes with enough metadata so that files can be correctly interpreted without additional information

Databricks just announced DBRX, a new open-sourced large language model (LLM) with advanced capabilities in language and code understanding. DBRX outperforms major open-source models including Mixtral MoE, Llama-2 70B, and Grok-1 on language understanding, Programming, and Math.

๐Ÿค– AI News:

Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus model has surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboard. The LMSYS Chatbot Arena is a crowdsourced platform used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models.

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Sanctuary AI, a developer of humanoid general-purpose robots that are powered by AI and can perform a wide variety of work tasks quickly, safely and effectively.

AI-generated videos are becoming alarmingly good.

Meet Beck, who caused a sensation by tweeting a video of an AI-generated person that sounded eerily lifelike. Beck retorted, insisting the video is predominantly AI-driven because HeyGenโ€™s lip-syncing technology enables Arial to say anything.

Amazon just announced an additional $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, on top of its initial $1.25 billion, marking the tech giant's largest outside investment in its history.

Microsoft's deal with Inflection AI marks a strategic shift in the AI landscape.

AI startup valuations are soaring, with some companies valued over 100x their forward-looking revenue.

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๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Data Tools, Libraries  


Lapdev
Self-Hosted Remote Dev Environment.

Kvrocks
Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.

pgJQ
jq extension for Postgres.

Hatchify
A framework that accelerates the development of CRUD web applications.

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