ML/AI • DEVCLASS

Appian blends Google AI services into updated low-code platform

Daniel Robinson - May 15, 2019

Low-code pioneer Appian has pushed out a new release of its developer platform, and has added support for users to take advantage...

Microsoft melds ML with DevOps…drops MLOps onto Azure

Daniel Robinson - May 13, 2019

Microsoft used its Build 2019 conference to detail how it is bringing DevOps practices into the machine learning sphere, to deliver what it...

What’s the point: Firebase, InfluxDB Cloud, Google Cloud TPU pods

Julia Schmidt - May 8, 2019

This week’s Google I/O saw a slew of machine learning features coming to the company’s mobile platform Firebase. The new capabilities are...

Large update ahoy! Facebook packs PyTorch punch

Gavin Clarke - May 2, 2019

Facebook has released what it’s modestly calling “a large feature update” to PyTorch with a clutch of fresh tools.

Julia 101 – The upstart language with a lot to offer

Danny Bradbury - April 26, 2019

If you could develop your own programming language from scratch, what would it look like? If you’re a C programmer, maybe you’d...

What’s the point: GitLab, VSC, Prometheus, MLflow, AWS

Julia Schmidt - April 26, 2019

Repository management tool GitLab has gotten a set of patches and is now available in versions 11.5.11, 11.6.11, 11.7.12, 11.8.8, and 11.9.9...

MongoDB spends $39m to take over whole new Realm

Joe Fay - April 25, 2019

MongoDB is gearing up to dig deeper into the mobile and serverless database worlds by spending $39m to buy Realm.

Databricks releases its “biggest innovation to date” to make the most of muddled data lakes

Julia Schmidt - April 24, 2019

Databricks, the company behind the minds that brought you the big data analytics engine Apache Spark, has open-sourced storage layer Delta Lake...

Cloudera AI boss: Nothing beats implementing to learn about machine learning

Julia Schmidt - April 12, 2019

Thanks to advances in hardware technology and the amount of data available to many companies, machine learning has become more and more...

Google aims AI platform at retailers, dusty archives

Joe Fay - April 11, 2019

Google has taken the wraps off a range of AI services it says will allow companies to develop and deploy machine learning...

TIOBE index shows programmers still crazy for Java after all these years

Joe Fay - April 9, 2019

The tech world is always changing...except when it comes to programming languages, where the top three has barely moved for almost 20...

What’s the point: Azure DevOps for Londoners, Front Doors for all, updates for Databricks, Elastic and Gitlab

Joe Fay - April 5, 2019

Microsoft has brought DevOps to London for the first time. Or rather, customers can now create Azure DevOps organisations and choose that...

Google scraps AI ethics panel after (another) workers revolt

Joe Fay - April 5, 2019

Google has demonstrated just how fast things move in AI, by scrapping the ethics panel it set up barely a week ago.

AI researchers call on AWS to stop flogging face recog tech to cops

Joe Fay - April 4, 2019

A squad of top AI researchers, including employees of Google, Microsoft and Facebook, have signed up to an...

Redis grabs AI and edge trends by the horns with new offerings

Julia Schmidt - April 4, 2019

Database management system provider Redis Labs used its user conference RediConf to introduce the community to RedisAI, RedisGears, and RedisEdge.

Facebook fires up PyTorch-BigGraph for handling ridiculously large graphs

Julia Schmidt - April 3, 2019

Facebook’s research team has just released PyTorch-BigGraph (PBG), giving those wondering how to quickly process graph-structured data for machine learning purposes a...