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Why Prediction is So Important For Business

Chaos and uncertainty make life hard. In business, they cost you time and money. Without…

Cloud Architecture: Build vs. Buy?

What type of organizations should build their own cloud infrastructure, which should go with a…

Executive’s Guide to BI Tools

Data Visualization Software Comparison The Blue Orange Guide to BI Tools is meant to give…

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Classified Flying Object

How Computer Vision Is Used To Classify Objects. Featuring an in-depth explanation and interview…

3 Best Machine Learning Models to Predict Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV)

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) CLTV, the projected revenue of a customer over the lifetime of…

Off-the-shelf vs Custom Machine Learning Models?

When is building better than buying an off-the-shelf solution? Companies can engage in different…

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Automating Data Quality: How Databricks Delta Live Tables Simplifies ETL and Ensures Reliability

IntroductionIn modern data platforms, building and maintaining reliable ETL pipelines is a significant engineering challenge. Legacy approaches typically involve manual orchestration, custom quality checks, and extensive operational overhead.Delta Live Tables (DLT) offers a declarative framework that simplifies pipeline development, automates operational complexity, and embeds data quality directly into the transformation process.This article discusses the technical ar...

Apache Iceberg in Action: A PySpark Example with Google Colab

In the rapidly evolving landscape of big data, organizations struggle with efficiently managing large-scale data lakes. Traditional file-based approaches often lead to consistency issues, poor query performance, and complex data management. Enter Apache Iceberg, an open table format designed to solve these challenges.What is Apache Iceberg?Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for massive analytic datasets. Developed originally at Netflix and later donated to t...

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #3, Storytelling: Go Beyond Showing Data —…

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #3, Storytelling: Go Beyond Showing Data — Tell a Story With It!Image source: UX IndonesiaMy two previous articles in this series — ...

Azure Container Apps

IntroductionContainer technology has reshaped the way organizations build, run, and manage applications. Containerized solutions allow teams to develop highly scalable, consistent, and efficient microservices — a major game-changer for modern software delivery pipelines. Azure Container Apps (ACA) offers a fully managed, serverless experience that lets you reap the benefits of container architectures without wrestling with the complexities of Kubernetes.I have worked with our clients at Blue Orange Digital on designing, deployi...

AWS re:Invent 2024 — reflections for cloud watchers

AWS re:Invent 2024 — reflections for cloud watchersClosing down on 2024, this year we saw the rise of independent players applying Artificial Intelligence to disrupt workplace productivity with projects like Cursor or Perplexity, and we saw the rise of projects disrupting the foundation models arena from projects like Anthropic or Mistral — all of this powered by advancements in access to compute and software abstractions.We also saw the cloud giants refine ...

Insights and Innovations from Microsoft Ignite 2024

Ignite conference introduction in black and white charcoal.Did you know? Businesses using GenAI (GenAI) are already achieving a $3.70 ROI for every $1 invested, with industries like financial services and retail leading the way. This is one of the insights shared at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, which took place last week with over 200,000 registered partici...

New dbt features for people who wear many hats

In this article, we will recap (pun intended) dbt’s most recent and beta features announced during the recent dbt conference, Coalesce 2024, in Vegas. As I shared in a previous article, a lot has happened in Las Vegas. And I brought a lot of things I still want to share. But I have to be honest: I mostly brought hats. Lots of them. An insane amount for a person with only one head.Is every c...

Getting Started with Mosaic AI Gateway

With the ever-increasing speed of change within the AI space, organizations are clamoring for ways to apply governance and control over their use of AI models at scale. Databricks has been leading the charge in rolling out features that help organizations get a handle on managing their data and AI assets in a unified way using Unity Catalog.Databricks has its pace of rapid innovation in this area through a new product they released this fall called Mosaic AI Gateway. This product is aimed at helping organizations secure their data and Gen AI deployments through centralized governanc...

Cognitive Architectures and LangGraph Agents

Cognitive architectures are an emerging concept in the field of artificial intelligence applications. Simply put, they are structured flows of information processing — a computer program — that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) along with programmatically defined routes to perform reasoning, decision-making, task planning, and task execution.AI agents are LLM-powered systems that autonomously decide on the control flow of tasks. Unlike traditional chains that follow ...

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #2, Dashboards to Better Share Data Insights…

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #2, Dashboards to Better Share Data Insights with Your StakeholdersImage source: Photo collage from Databricks Dashboard examples.As pointed in my latest article in this Series (here is the link in case you missed it), ...