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No more double vision: How Miinto improved its customer experience using Vertex AI Vision

The fashion world is notoriously fast-paced, and it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends. At Miinto, we bring over 1,000 of the world’s best boutiques together in one place. We strive to offer the most customer-centric fashion platform on the planet, where users can find the best selection of premium, luxury …

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Priority-based scheduling between node pools

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a leading managed Kubernetes service in the market. GKE is used by several organizations today that are using Google Cloud. As costs rise, customers are shifting their focus to cloud cost optimization. They are seeking more efficient and cost-effective ways to run their workloads by utilizing the best-in-class optimization techniques …

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Best of both worlds: Achieving scalability and quality in text clustering

Posted by Sara Ahmadian and Mehran Kazemi, Research Scientists, Google Research Clustering is a fundamental, ubiquitous problem in data mining and unsupervised machine learning, where the goal is to group together similar items. The standard forms of clustering are metric clustering and graph clustering. In metric clustering, a given metric space defines distances between data …

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Streaming SQL in Data Mesh

Democratizing Stream Processing @ Netflix By Guil Pires, Mark Cho, Mingliang Liu, Sujay Jain Data powers much of what we do at Netflix. On the Data Platform team, we build the infrastructure used across the company to process data at scale. In our last blog post, we introduced “Data Mesh” — A Data Movement and Processing Platform. When a user …

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink: An open-source match made in heaven

In the age of constant digital transformation, organizations should strategize ways to increase their pace of business to keep up with — and ideally surpass — their competition. Customers are moving quickly, and it is becoming difficult to keep up with their dynamic demands. As a result, I see access to real-time data as a …

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Best of both worlds: Achieving scalability and quality in text clustering

Posted by Sara Ahmadian and Mehran Kazemi, Research Scientists, Google Research Clustering is a fundamental, ubiquitous problem in data mining and unsupervised machine learning, where the goal is to group together similar items. The standard forms of clustering are metric clustering and graph clustering. In metric clustering, a given metric space defines distances between data …

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Bundesliga Match Facts Shot Speed – Who fires the hardest shots in the Bundesliga?

There’s a kind of magic that surrounds a soccer shot so powerful, it leaves spectators, players, and even commentators in a momentary state of awe. Think back to a moment when the sheer force of a strike left an entire Bundesliga stadium buzzing with energy. What exactly captures our imagination with such intensity? While there …

Data analytics in the age of AI: How we’ve enhanced our data platforms this year

AI is already having a profound impact on how organizations operate. The power of AI allows you to reimagine what you do, how you do it and who you do it for. For many companies it feels like they’re just one step away from using AI to start solving real business problems — they just …

AI should be better understood and managed — new research warns

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms can and are being used to radicalize, polarize, and spread racism and political instability, says an academic. An expert argues that AI and algorithms are not just tools deployed by national security agencies to prevent malicious activity online, but can be contributors to polarization, radicalism and political violence — posing …

The history of Kubernetes

When it comes to modern IT infrastructure, the role of Kubernetes—the open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, management and scaling of containerized software applications (apps) and services—can’t be underestimated. According to a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) report (link resides outside ibm.com), Kubernetes is the second largest open-source project in the world after …