On the Cloud and Vertica. Q&A with David Sprogis
Q1. When do you recommend it is appropriate for an organization to shift all of their data to the cloud or to take instead a hybrid approach? Great question! First, I think it is important...
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On the technical challenges posed by the 5G revolution. Q&A with Dheeraj Remella
Q1. What are the technical challenges posed by the 5G revolution? The challenges with the 5G revolution can be broadly categorized into spectrum related, service based architecture related and agility of decisions related. When...
On Neo4j and Google Cloud Partnership. Q&A with Lance Walter
Q1. What are the main benefits for customers in having Neo4j Graph Database to be offered on Google Cloud Platform as a managed service? The offering we announced at Google Next ‘19 is called...
On Kubernetes, Cloud and Couchbase Autonomous Operator. Q&A with Anil Kumar
Q1. Why Kubernetes is important? When we first started using commodity computing, there were many overheads associated with managing data center power and cooling, maintaining network switches and routers, and then the servers and...
On AI, Big Data, Healthcare in China. Q&A with Luciano Brustia
Q1. What are the main challenges and opportunities in healthcare informatics? China has more elderly people than any other country in the world: according to the 2010 census, the population aged over 65 is...
Q&A with Greg Luck, CTO of Hazelcast Inc
Q1. What are your main lessons learned in deploying cloud-native applications in Kubernetes? Hazelcast is performance optimized technology. It required extra work to configure Kubernetes networking to work with hazelcast without sacrificing performance. Kubernetes...
Q&A with Venkat Venkataramani — Rockset GA
Q1. Last fall, Rockset exited stealth. What is the mission statement of Rockset? Rockset’s mission is to make all products and decisions in the world data powered. Q2. Can you please give some examples...
On Machine Learning, NLP and Ludwig. Q&A with Piero Molino, Senior Research Scientist, Uber AI
Q1. Uber AI has developed a tool (1) that uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to help agents deliver better customer support. What was the main motivation for this project? The...
On MariaDB Connector/Node.js. Q&A with Thomas Boyd
Q1. Some in the Node.js development community might have been surprised by the announcement of the release of MariaDB Connector/Node.js. People have been connecting Node.js to MariaDB for years –why is this an important...
On RedisGraph. Q&A with Daniel Howard
Q1. Why graphs are so important? Daniel Howard: Organisations increasingly want to run heavily relationship-oriented queries on (very) large datasets. Graphs are very, very good at modelling relationships, and can dramatically increase the speed...