Walden is our reference implementation of a data warehouse. We are now supporting it on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service. Follow deployment instructions , or read more information about our experience deploying a data warehouse on AWS below. In recent years, Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for cloud…

We have added Alluxio to Walden, our reference implementation of a small data lake. Alluxio provides a unified view into one or more underlying storage sources, adding caching and translation on top of them. …

“Every business is a software business” proclaimed more than 20 years ago Watts S. Humphrey, the “Father of Software Quality”. A cursory look at organizations today — whether big or small — is enough to ascertain his premonitions. …

Welcome to the third part of our article series on data access. …

This is the second article in our series on data access best practices. In the first one we looked at the reasons why data access can be challenging for organizations and highlighted some of the key principles that are good to have in mind when setting up this process. …

We discuss why data access is a surprisingly difficult problem to solve for large organizations. Neglecting this problem poses underappreciated yet existential risks to a company’s ML strategy. We propose a few principles that can help enable data access in a way that both enables innovation and manages risk effectively. …

Machine Learning Operations, or MLOps for short, is the systematic practice of deploying and managing Machine Learning models. It’s a relatively new trend in the industry, but one that is rapidly gaining popularity among professionals and organizations. In fact, Gartner recently added it to its list of the top 10…

Rust looks like an increasingly important part of the future of scientific programming. It’s as fast as C++, as flexible as Python, and does packaging better than even R. It is also very difficult to learn, and demands a lot of cognitive investment. …