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Data Projects: Managing Data Assets at Netflix Scale
By Amer Hesson , Marcelo Mayworm , James Mulcahy , and Brittany Truong The Problem: Managing Assets at Netflix Scale Netflix’s Data Platform is vast. We have millions of tables in our data warehouse and tens of thousands of scheduled workloads running across our orchestration systems. Behind each of...
How to Manage Your Discord Desktop Notifications: A Complete Guide
Not getting pinged for the conversations you wanna know about? This guide walks through server and channel notifications settings, Do Not Disturb, turning off specific notification sounds, and what to check when your pings mysteriously go quiet.
Adaptive write request scheduling in Redpanda's Cloud Topics
How we turned to the buddy allocator algorithm for Redpanda’s Cloud Topics to balance batching efficiency against latency and cost.
Building AI Agents for AR Glasses and XR Devices with NVIDIA XR AI
Developers building for AR glasses and wearable devices face an infrastructure gap. The hardware is ready, but creating AI experiences requires integrating live...
Build Your Own Transaction Foundation Model for Financial Intelligence
Every swipe, transfer, and payment on a modern financial network encodes a pattern of human behavior. Transaction data is one of the richest signals an...
NVIDIA Blackwell Tops MLPerf Training 6.0 with Industry-Leading Scale and Performance
NVIDIA delivered a clean sweep in MLPerf Training v6.0, the latest edition of industry-standard AI training benchmarks developed by the MLCommons consortium....
Build On-Device AI Companions with the NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 Plugins
NVIDIA RTX technologies are deeply integrated into Unreal Engine 5 through the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine and the NVIDIA DLSS Unreal Engine plugin. This...
How to Optimize Transformer-Based Models for Low-Precision Training
Transformer architectures are the backbone of many modern large language and generative AI models. As these models grow in size, training runs consume more GPU...
Automate ScyllaDB X Cloud Clusters with Terraform
The ScyllaDB Cloud Terraform provider gives you infrastructure-as-code control over your clusters.
What's new in the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane
Redpanda Agentic Data Plane is now generally available on AWS. Deploy governed, enterprise-scale, agentic AI across all your data, safely.
Fine-Tuning Biological Foundation Models with LoRA Using NVIDIA BioNeMo Recipes
Foundation models are reshaping computational biology. Pretrained on massive corpora of protein or genomic sequences, models such as ESM2 (a protein language...
Boosting MoE Training Throughput with Advanced Fusion Kernels
Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models have quickly become a foundational component of modern, large-scale AI systems. They are widely adopted because they enable...
Pretrained to Imagine, Fine-Tuned to Act: The Rise of World-Action Models
Quick glossary for readers new to VLA/WAM terminology VLA Vision-Language-Action model: a robot policy that starts from a pretrained VLM backbone and adapts it...
NVIDIA Achieves Leading Agentic Coding Performance on First Agentic AI Benchmark
AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how...
Run DiffusionGemma on NVIDIA for Developer-Ready, High-Throughput Text Generation
Developers building real-time AI—such as chat assistants, copilots, and agentic workflows—are often constrained by token-by-token generation speed. This...
Deploy Long-Context Reasoning and Agentic Workflows with MiniMax M3 on NVIDIA Accelerated Infrastructure
As enterprise AI adoption scales, developers are increasingly forced to stitch together fragmented pipelines—separate models for text, vision, and...
One-Click Multi-Tenant Security with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand
NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand now offers intent-based security profiles in Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) that enable multi-tenant fabric security in a single...
ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Faisal Saeed
Meet Faisal Saeed, Principal Customer Engineer on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.
Cloud Topics: the Metastore
Learn how Redpanda's metastore powers Cloud Topics, from offset lookups and whole cluster restore to cross-region read replicas, and why it's built to be a foundational primitive for the future.
ScyllaDB Operator 1.21 Release — with Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) Support
Introducing Oracle Kubernetes Engine support, stronger TLS, and a lighter dependency footprint
Designing Production-Ready Battery Energy Storage Systems for AI Factories
AI factories are changing what data-center infrastructure must do. Unlike traditional data centers, AI factories are built to manufacture intelligence at scale....
Updated Requirements to How Apps Access Data in Servers
Discord is updating requirements to how apps access certain data within servers, changing the review threshold and requiring annual review. Here's what's changing and why.
Game On: Discord Is Backing the Next Generation of Dutch Gaming Founders
Together with Techleap, we’re launching the Gaming Founders Circle: a hands-on program for the most ambitious gaming companies in the Netherlands to provide participants with a direct line to the people, investors, and networks that help great games scale.
Store and search high-volume logs with ClickHouse and Datadog
Route logs to ClickHouse with Observability Pipelines and search them from the Datadog Log Explorer.
Delivering Lifecycle Control for AI Infrastructure at Scale with NVIDIA DGX Spark Enterprise Manageability
As AI infrastructure scales, enterprise expectations for operational maturity are increasing. Organizations expect these systems to be provisionable,...