AI
Databricks Is Going To Be The Next Platform For Many Enterprises
The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. …
Apache
Control
Arrow Hits the Mark for Petabyte-Class Analytics Problems
When we first talked to Voltron Data following their launch in early 2022, we had to take care to explain why Apache Arrow was worth paying attention to and why it might warrant the level of enterprise support the startup promised. …
Store
Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning
DataStax, the driving force behind the ongoing development of and commercialization of the open source NoSQL Apache Cassandra database, had been in business for nine years in 2019 when it made a hard shift to the cloud. …
Cloud
Mesos Reaches Milestone, Adds Native Docker
The battle between the Mesos and Kubernetes tools for managing applications on modern clusters continues to heat up, with the former reaching its milestone 1.0 with a “universal containerizer” feature that supports native Docker container formats and a shiny new API stack that is a lot more friendly and flexible than the manner in which APIs are implemented in systems management software these days. …
Control
How Apache Is Losing The Web To NGINX
Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. …
AI
Apache Arrow Targets High Performance for Big Data Systems
The ever-growing open source data stack ushered in yet another piece this morning with Apache Arrow, a new top-level project providing a columnar in-memory layer that focuses on higher performance data processing. …