Confluent announced last month the general availability (GA) of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink. This fully managed service enables real-time data processing and the creation of high-quality, reusable data streams. The service is available across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Apache Flink, a trusted and widely used stream processing framework, has …
Nebraska is “in a good position” funding-wise to deliver broadband internet to the state’s unserved and underserved areas, opening opportunities in telehealth and precision agriculture, a federal official said last week. Brendan Carr, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, spoke after attending a roundtable meeting on Tuesday hosted by U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., …
The creators of DBOS have recently introduced DBOS Cloud, a transactional serverless application platform tailored for TypeScript developers. With all state information stored in a highly available DBMS, this new platform assures transactional serverless computing, offering reliable execution alongside so-called “time travel” capabilities. Dubbed as “the world’s first cloud-native operating system” and a “database alternative …
So says Peter Zatsiev, co-founder of managed database firm Percona and investor in several open source projects. This point of view often has moral overtones, saying open source is transparent and therefore “good”, whereas proprietary software is closed and therefore “bad”, or at least suspect. But this picture is simplistic and increasingly outmoded. First, software …
OceanBase and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) recently inked an agreement to explore technology innovations in enhancing database system performance and advancing green computing practices. The agreement will support advanced research on the optimisation of databases, with a particular focus on improving the performance of parameterised queries. Parameterised queries, widely used in database systems, …
COLUMBIA − A cyber security researcher found a data leak in an app used to protect students and staff in schools across the United States, including Missouri. “I didn’t target them, I found the database by accident. I looked at a few documents and once I saw that they were sensitive, that’s when I searched …
Janet Peischel Register file photo As the year winds down, it’s time to take a look at some marketing trends for the New Year. I’ve been taking a deep dive into artificial intelligence (AI) apps. There are AI websites, presentation apps, image makers and manipulators and content writers. There are AI-driven music, video and art …