2022 Trends in Distributed Systems, Opportunities in Data & ML, and PTK #113

2022 Trends in Distributed Systems

Renee Shah shares with us 2022 trends in distributed systems.

Topics include edge computing, Rust, WASM, and much more! Read thread >>

Data Science and Machine Learning Trends and Opportunities

Hugo Bowne-Andersonn of Vanishing Gradients speaks with Amplify General Partner Sarah Catanzaro about investing in technical tooling and where she sees progress happening. They discuss scientific inquiry, the fragmentation of the data science and ML tool space, standardization, and much more! Listen here and below >>

Data and ML Projects To Know Issue #113

Sarah Catanzaro published her bi-weekly edition of the Projects To Know Newsletter, which features easy-to-read summaries of data and ML papers, OSS projects, and news.

Link to Full Newsletter >>

This week's featured papers:

• Watermarks in Stream Processing Systems: Semantics and Comparative Analysis of Apache Flink and Google Cloud Dataflow
• LLM.int8(): 8-bit Matrix Multiplication for Transformers at Scale (read the paper)
• Distributed Transactional Reads: The Strong, the Quick, the Fresh \& the Impossible (read the paper)

This week's featured projects:

• ?GraphPipe (view the repo)
• LiteFS (view the repo)
• Aqueduct (view the repo)

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Anyscale unveiled Ray 2.0, introduced its enterprise-ready Ray platform, and added an additional $99 million in Series C funding.

Gorgias announced that they raised a $30 million Series C funding to help merchants generate even more revenue through their customer experience.

Hex now surfaces descriptions from a dbt Cloud project directly in the database schema browser in Hex.?(blog post)

OctoAI (now NVIDIA) announced that veteran software and hardware leader Lip-Bu Tan has joined the OctoML Board of Directors.

Sym rolled out Dynamic Identity Matching, a handy SDK feature that lets you write your own mappers from Slack email → target system identity.

Chainguard published a post on benchmarking false positives from security scanners.