Orchestrate all the Things

A new whitepaper just released by leading blockchain oracle service Chainlink lays the foundation for new capabilities for application and smart contract developers. Chainlink provides an oracle service, enabling smart contracts to interoperate with the world. Today, Chainlink released a whitepaper outlining what they dub Chainlink 2.0. We connected with Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov to disc...

Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that. Bob van Luijt's career in technology started at age 15, building web sites to help people sell toothbrushes online. Not many 15 year-olds do that today, and fewer still did it then. Apparently that gave van Luijt enough of a head start to arrive at the confluence of technol...

GraphQL was never conceived as a query language for databases. Yet, it's increasingly being used for this purpose. Here's why, and how. Manish Jain and Josh McKenzie are both engineer rock stars who wear many hats. They also have something else in common: they are both avid GraphQL users and builders, despite getting there from different start points. Article published on ZDNet

What do you get when you juxtapose two of the hottest domains today - AI and healthcare? A peek into the future, potentially. In 2020, few things went well and saw growth. Artificial intelligence was one of them, and healthcare was another one. Artificial intelligence remained on a steady course of growth and further exploration -- perhaps because of the Covid-19 crisis. Healthcare was a big area...

In 2014, IOTA set out to offer an alternative to the key issues with blockchain: Scalability and transaction fees. Somewhere along the way, things went wrong. Not everything is lost, however, and IOTA is looking to regain momentum. IOTA's main premise, namely solving the issues around blockchain by introducing a different data structure, remains. IOTA, like blockchains such as Bitcoin or Ethereum,...

Machine learning operations, or MLOps, is the art and science of taking machine learning models from the data science lab to production. It's been a hot topic for the last couple of years, and for good reason. Going from innovation to scalability and repeatability are the hallmarks of generating business value, and MLOps represents precisely that for machine learning. Apache TVM has become a de fa...

Another day, another funding round in the graph market Katana Graph, a high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital. We discuss with Keshav Pingali, Katana Graph CEO and co-founder, on the company's background, technology, and prospects Article published on ZDNet

The largest funding round to date in the graph market is good news not just for TigerGraph, but for the market at large. We review TigerGraph's progress and the market landscape with TigerGraph CEO Yu Xu and COO Todd Blaschka Article published on ZDNet

As it turns out, the answer to the question of how to make the best of AI hardware may not be solely, or even primarily, related to hardware Today's episode features Determined AI CEO and Founder, Evan Sparks. Sparks is a PhD veteran of Berkeley's AmpLab with a long track record of accurate predictions in the chip market. We talk about an interoperability layer for disparate hardware stacks, ONNX...

Vectors are foundational for machine learning applications. Pinecone, a specialized cloud database for vectors, has secured significant investment from the people who brought Snowflake to the world. Could this be the next big thing? Article published on ZDNet

AI chips, MLOps, and ethics. Knowledge, and Graphs. COVID-19 as a mixed bag for technological progress and adoption Article published on ZDNet

Blockchain's DeFi-ning moment. Cloud, Kubernetes, and GraphQL. Open source is winning, open source creators are losing. A reality check on key technological drivers for the new decade. Article published on ZDNet

Gary Marcus is one of the more prominent, and controversial, figures in AI In this in-depth conversation, we cover everything from his background and early work in cognitive psychology as a way to understand the human mind, to his critique on Deep Learning, a holistic proposal for robust AI, the role of background knowledge, and knowledge graphs in particular, and the future of AI

Python, the most popular language for data science and machine learning, gets a huge boost from Dask, an open source framework for running it in a distributed way on top of GPUs. Saturn Cloud, a startup offering Dask as service, is now a Snowflake partner, making Dask available to the masses. We discuss all about Dask and Saturn Cloud with co-founder Sebastian Metti. Article published on ZDNet

You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip company. Blaize is now boldly going where none of its ilk has gone before, releasing a software development product. And that's not the only reason AI Studio is interesting. We discuss with Blaize CEO Dinakar Munagala and VP R&D Dmitry Zakharchenko to explore AI Studio, its potential and philosophy, and where it fits in Blaiz...

A flexible API is key to database accessibility and developer friendliness today. Apache Cassandra was lacking in that department, and DataStax is trying to address this with the release of a new API layer called Stargate.  A discussion with Ed Anuff, formerly of Apogee and Google Cloud, and currently DataStax Chief Product Officer, on the rationale behind Stargate, its architecture and operation,...

Fluree is a hitherto under the radar graph database that uses blockchain to support data lineage and verification. Learn all about Fluree, its origins and milestones, use cases, data integration and integrity, open source, and more Featuring Brian Platz, Fluree co-founder and co-CEO.  Article published on ZDNet

From fit for purpose development to pie in the sky research, this is what AI looks like in 2020. A discussion on all things AI, with authors of the State of AI 2020 Report , Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. Benaich and Hogarth work on the intersection of industry, research, investment and policy, with extensive background and various currently held positions such as venture capital investor and res...

Beyond Limits is an industrial and enterprise-grade AI technology company active in energy, utilities, and healthcare, which just announced a milestone Series C funding round of $133 million, led by Group 42 and BP. The company's approach to applications of AI in industrial settings originates from NASA Jet Propulsion Labs. It's a hybrid approach, combining data-driven machine learning, with knowl...

Netdata, the company behind the eponymous open-source, distributed, real-time, performance, and health monitoring solution for systems and applications, has announced it completed a new round of financing of 14,2 million dollars.  We take the opportunity to dive in the Netdata story with CEO and Founder Costas Tsaousis: what they do and why, their open source approach and distributed architecture,...

Τhis episode is all about multi-model and graph databases.  A sui generis, multi-model open source database, designed from the ground up to be distributed. ArangoDB keeps up with the times and uses graph, and machine learning, as the entry points for its offering. ArangoDB CEO and co-founder Claudius Weinberger, and ArangoDB Head of Engineering and Machine Learning Jörg Schad discuss multi-model,...

The perfect observability storm with open source leading the way, and a partnership that makes sense. Open source is eating the world, and observability is no exception. New Relic and Grafana Labs just announced a partnership, and we discuss the specifics as well as the broader open source and observability landscape with Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt and New Relic Chief Product Officer Bill Staples....

Did you ever wonder how data is used in the medical industry? The picture that emerges leaves a lot to be desired. In the early 90s,the evidence-based medicine movement tried to make medicine more data-driven. Three decades later, we have more data, but not enough context, or transparency. Today's episode features David Scales, Chief Medical Officer at Critica, and an Assistant Professor of Medici...

jSonar offers a security layer that sits on top of databases. Let's face it: database security is not the most appealing topic for most people. Bennatan is very aware of it. That, however, has not stopped him and the jSonar team from carving out a spot for themselves. And it has not stopped Goldman Sachs from investing 50 million dollars in jSonar either. Let's hear why, and what makes jSonar spec...

Data warehouses alone don't cut it. Data lakes alone don't cut it either. So whether you call it data lakehouse or by any other name, you need the best of both worlds, says Databricks. A new query engine and a visualization layer are the next pieces in Databricks' puzzle. We connected with Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, to discuss their latest news: the announcement of a new query e...