More than a decade has passed since we coined the term “big data,” and a decade in the tech world is almost infinity. Is big data now obsolete? The short answer is that although big data in itself may still have its place for some apps, the focus has shifted to integrating data-driven insights into...
The amount of new technologies in 2017 has been overwhelming: The cloud was adopted faster than analysts projected and brought several new tools with it; AI was introduced into just about all areas of our lives; IoT and edge computing emerged; and a slew of cloud-native technologies came into fruition, such as Kubernetes, serverless, and...
https://hackernoon.com/tutorial-faster-ai-development-with-serverless-684f3701b004 The two most trending technologies are AI and serverless and guess what? They even go well together. Before getting into some cool examples, let’s start with some AI basics: AI involves a learning phase in which we observe patterns in historical datasets, identify or learn patterns through training and build machine learned models. Once...
We recently debated at a technical forum what cloud native storage is, which led me to believe that this topic deserves a deeper discussion and more clarity. First though, I first want to define what cloud native applications are, as some may think that containerizing an application is enough to make it “cloud-native.” This is...
AWS re:Invent is all about how managed data services, serverless, and AI work together to enable new business applications. The focus is shifting from building the infrastructure of your choice in a playground that has an endless number of toys (services) to an opinionated, pre-packaged approach that enables customers to focus on business applications. Why? Businesses are aligning with the...
Serverless computing allows developers to focus on building and running auto-scaling applications without worrying about managing servers, as server provisioning and maintenance are taken care of behind the scenes. Industry demand for instant results has therefore made serverless platforms the new buzz. However, serverless computing has challenges which limits its usability and applicability: Slow performance...