Xebia

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

When it comes to Cloud Observability, several Open Source and proprietary tools have been available over the years. Many vendors offer now high-quality solutions off the shelf. More sophisticated methods of detection, reporting, integrations… But what is the value of Open Source solutions on this topic?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Launched in 2021, the goal with Rapid Silicon is to promote, adopt and implement open source tech to address the low- to mid-range FPGA market, according to CEO and co-founder Naveed Sherwani.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Get started at metaflow.org. Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). One of the cooler bits of all of this is the fact that the dataset is open source and universally accessible. The past year, we’ve seen a large number of fascinating studies. Sign up for Actuator here.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

While at Mozno, Evans had built open source tooling to help incidents run through resolution pipelines more efficiently, which sparked the idea for Incident.io. It’s Incident.io co-founder and CEO Stephen Whitworth’s assertion that there’s fragmentation in the market for software incident management solutions.

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CIO

AUGUST 9, 2024

Additionally, connecting open-source solutions or foundation models to handpicked proprietary data with RAG can provide a shortcut to customized AI. However, end-to-end in-house development might not be economically sensible if existing or off-the-shelf tools can perform similar functionalities. Build or Buy?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. Or they can choose to use a blackbox off-the-shelf ‘AutoML’ solution that simplifies their problem at the expense of flexibility and control.”

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2024

Many organizations know that commercially available, “off-the-shelf” generative AI models don’t work well in enterprise settings because of significant data access and security risks. We’re using our own databases, testing against our own needs, and building around specific problem sets.

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CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You might choose to bring the AI to your data by running an off-the-shelf or open-source solution in your corporate datacenter, ideally reducing complexity and risk. Accordingly, many organizations plan to boost GenAI funding, the survey found. What are your metrics for success? Just don’t succumb to hype—or FOMO.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. Illustration by Pinguino Kolb/The Parallax. Following the 2016 election, the U.S.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

MARCH 22, 2018

There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance. We recognize the need for human interpretability, and we recently open sourced a Python framework called Skater as an initial step to enable interpretability for researchers and applied practitioners in the field of data science.

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Cloudera

JULY 24, 2023

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2023

Companies are looking at Google’s Bard, Anthropic’s Claude, Databricks’ Dolly, Amazon’s Titan, or IBM’s WatsonX, but also open source AI models like Llama 2 from Meta. Open source models are also getting easier to deploy. All we need to do is specialize them for our needs.” We select the LLM based on the use case.

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Netflix Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2019

by David Berg , Ravi Kiran Chirravuri , Romain Cledat , Savin Goyal , Ferras Hamad , Ville Tuulos tl;dr Metaflow is now open-source! Get started at metaflow.org. Netflix applies data science to hundreds of use cases across the company, including optimizing content delivery and video encoding.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 20, 2025

A new era of data creation and control With the emergence of open source models like DeepSeek, the rapid improvements to models from OpenAI and Anthropic, and the investment in homegrown, proprietary models, enterprise companies are faced with a new set of options for how they manage their data and the value it adds to their specific business.

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CIO

JULY 24, 2024

The challenge, as many businesses are now learning the hard way, is that simply applying black box, off-the-shelf LLMs, like a GPT-4, for example, will not deliver the accuracy and consistency needed for professional-grade solutions. The key to this approach is developing a solid data foundation to support the GenAI model.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

To help us understand technological health, we asked several CTOs in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region what their companies are doing to prevent security incidents, how they use open source software, how they use technology strategically, and how they retain employees in a challenging job market. Being Proactive About Security.

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CIO

JULY 14, 2023

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. In the shaper model, you’re leveraging existing foundational models, off the shelf, but retraining them with your own data.” As so often happens with new technologies, the question is whether to build or buy.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 21, 2015

Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf. In a year’s time there will be open source libraries with pre-trained models for image classification that are on par with anything you can get through an API (probably better). Then there’s a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

He and his teams tried a few off-the-shelf tools but were never satisfied with the support for linking a cloud resource to a line of business to determine ownership. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives , which can push cloud costs up further.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MARCH 11, 2025

DeepSeeks licensing was surprisingly open, and that also sent shock waves through the industry: The source code and weights are under the permissive MIT License, and the developers have published a reasonably thorough paper about how the model was trained. Thats roughly 1/10th what it cost to train OpenAIs most recent models.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 18, 2025

However, off-the-shelf LLMs cant be used without some modification. RAG is a framework for building generative AI applications that can make use of enterprise data sources and vector databases to overcome knowledge limitations. This can be overwhelming for nontechnical users who lack proficiency in SQL.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 12, 2019

Using off-the-shelf parts and focused efforts, the biohacking group has designed and built a networked hard drive, coated in a biosafe resin, to be subcutaneously implanted in the human body. TEHACHAPI, Calif.—In READ MORE ON BIOHACKING AND MEDICAL SECURITY. How hackers are approaching medical cybersecurity. What’s a Pegleg?

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The Citus Data

MARCH 12, 2022

The first sections explore the different types of application workloads and their characteristics, plus the off-the-shelf benchmarks that are commonly used for each. So instead, you will likely want to run an off-the-shelf benchmark with a workload that is very similar to your own.

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Erik Bernhardsson

APRIL 21, 2015

Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf. In a year’s time there will be open source libraries with pre-trained models for image classification that are on par with anything you can get through an API (probably better). Then there’s a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 8, 2019

LinkedIn recently found that demand for data scientists in the US is “off the charts,” and our survey indicated that the demand for data scientists and data engineers is strong not just in the US but globally. Whether you’re a business leader or a practitioner, here are key data trends to watch and explore in the months ahead.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is both frustrating for companies that would prefer making ML an ordinary, fuss-free value-generating function like software engineering, as well as exciting for vendors who see the opportunity to create buzz around a new category of enterprise software. The new category is often called MLOps. However, the concept is quite abstract.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2021

An off-the-shelf product straight from the vendor can fit your business requirements. Oracle’s PaaS offering is also incorporated within OCI and makes use of both Oracle and open-source technologies. Beneath the umbrella of “the cloud,” however, there are several cloud services. Oracle SaaS (Software as a Service).

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Palo Alto Networks

APRIL 23, 2019

If the applications are open source or off-the-shelf, make sure to patch regularly and be sure to patch critical security flaws immediately. A good place to look for guidance on how to start an application security program is the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Classify apps and data.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

It’s just bagged $1M in seed funding led by Angels Capital, a European VC fund owned by Juan Roig (aka Spain’s richest grocer and second wealthiest billionaire), and Miami-based The Venture City. It had previously raised around half a million dollars via a token sale to help fund early development.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 17, 2023

What would you say is the job of a software developer? A layperson, an entry-level developer, or even someone who hires developers will tell you that job is to … well … write software. Pretty simple. An experienced practitioner will tell you something very different. They’d say that the job involves writing some software, sure.

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Tenable

MARCH 28, 2025

Taxonomy of Attacks on GenAI Systems (Source: Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations report from NIST, March 2025) The report is primarily aimed at those in charge of designing, developing, deploying, evaluating and governing AI systems. Recognizing this challenge, the U.S.

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Netflix Tech

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. Netflix delivers shows like Sacred Games, Stranger Things, Money Heist, and many more to more than 150 million subscribers across 190+ countries around the world.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With the emergence of new creative AI algorithms like large language models (LLM) fromOpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, Meta’s LLaMa, and Bloomberg’s BloombergGPT—awareness, interest and adoption of AI use cases across industries is at an all time high. It’s the most revolutionary technological development in at least a generation.

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A List Apart

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In early 2013, less than 14% of all web traffic came from mobile devices; today, that number has grown to 53%. In other parts of the world the difference is even more staggering: in African countries, more than 64% of web traffic is from mobile devices ; in India, nearly 78% of traffic is mobile. UX and performance have issues in practice.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 20, 2020

A Bug-Sized Camera for Bug-Sized Robots and Bug-Sized Bugs — With a focus on small size and efficiency, they started with an off-the-shelf ultra low-power image sensor that’s 2.3 Well, only humans can … Arguman — an [open source] argument analysis and mapping platform. mm wide and weighs 6.7

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