🚀 Parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age

In today's edition:

• 🤖AIOps: How AI is Reshaping IT Operations

• 💻Setting up a Remote Dev with Google Chrome and DigitalOcean

• 🔍Postgres Performance Boost: HOT Updates and Fill Factor

• 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀?

• 🚀 parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age

• 📈 Databricks LLM tops the leaderboard

• 👑 Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4

• 💰 Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $2.75B

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools

• 🖼️ 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%.

The Rise of AIOps: How AI is Reshaping IT Operations

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

Setting up a Remote Development Environment with Google Chrome and DigitalOcean

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.

Postgres Performance Boost: HOT Updates and Fill Factor

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

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀?

APIs have increasingly become the backbone of modern software.

𝗧𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 some of the 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 and 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻, Let's 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲

42.parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age  

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

📈 New open-source LLM tops the leaderboard

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.

🤖 AI News:

👑 Claude 3 dethrones GPT-4

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 Invests in Sanctuary AI to Bring Humanoid Robotics to Work Alongside Humans

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.

HeyGen’s AI avatars are becoming much harder to identify as AI…

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 HeyGen’s lip-syncing technology enables Arial to say anything.

💰 Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $2.75B

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.

🚀 AI Titans' Revenue Rush

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.

💡AI Learning

Devika - Make Apps Under 5 Mins With Free Devin Alternative

 🔥Top AI tools to increase productivity: 

1. DOO: The leap in your team’s evolution. With DOO, your team doesn’t just grow in numbers but in capabilities too

2. Interview Solver is an AI Copilot that helps you pass your live coding and system design interviews.

3. Language Atlas is a freemium platform where people can learn languages with AI

4. RAFA is a modern investment research platform for US markets and cryptocurrencies.

5. TeamAI - A platform that makes it easy for teams to collaborate with one another on AI use.

6. LangMagic.com: Your Ultimate Path to Language Mastery

View our database of all the best AI tools for your needs:

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👨‍💻 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.

A.I. Generated Image of the Day

Famous art (but it’s Star Wars) (source)

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