Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, a fully managed service that allows customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps as workflows, now allows customers to set concurrency limits on the number of steps which can be executed in parallel. Source: AWS
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is a fully-managed service that allows customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps as workflows. Today, we are happy to introduce a new step type that allows machine learning engineers to run data processing applications using open source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Presto, and Hive on Amazon EMR clusters. […]
Chime calls in Goldman Sachs for possible IPO
Chime has called in Goldman Sachs to help it prepare for an initial public offering that could value the digital banking giant at up to $40 billion, according to Reuters. Source: Fintech News
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR 6.5.0 now includes Apache Iceberg version 0.12. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for large data sets in Amazon S3 and provides fast query performance over large tables, atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table evolution. With the current release, you can use Apache Spark 3.1.2 […]
AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations can now recommend Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL to customers looking to migrate and replatform their Microsoft SQL Server applications on PostgreSQL with little to no code change. Source: AWS
Amazon FinSpace managed Apache Spark clusters now support Apache Spark 3
Amazon FinSpace managed Spark clusters now support Apache Spark 3.1.2. Apache Spark 3 has query optimization features like dynamic partition pruning to optimize joins such as joining a large fact table of trades with a smaller dimension table of execution centers. It also includes changes to be more compatible with the ANSI SQL standard and […]
Capco names Pushpak Das Purkayastha client partner
Capco, a Wipro company, the global technology and management consultancy, has appointed Pushpak Das Purkayastha as a new U.S. Client Partner, based out of its New York office, supporting some of Capco’s large financial services clients. Source: Fintech News
CaixaBank launches ESG advisory service for corporate customers
CaixaBank has launched a new environmental, social and governance (ESG) advisory service to help its corporate and institutional customers to analyse and establish a sustainable strategy and positioning. Source: Fintech News
Benker preps 'blockchain neobank'
Benker is to become the first officially licensed blockchain neobank launched in Europe following approval by the Bank of Lithuania under the Electronic Money Institution (EMI) category. Source: Fintech News
OSint for the Masses: Going Beyond Social Monitoring
When Andrew Torba founded Gab, he claimed his ambitions were grander than just creating an alternative social network. He wanted to create a parallel economy and creating a parallel internet seemed like a good place to start. He is not alone. Alternative online communities have been popping up regularly across the web. These pockets of […]