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By Guest Authors: Bill Zhang, Peter Ableda, Shaun Ahmadian and Manish Maheshwari 

By Guest Authors: Shaun Ahmadian and Luiz Carrossoni Neto @ Cloudera

What is Apache Iceberg?

Apache Iceberg is a high-performance, open table format, born-in-the cloud that scales to petabytes independent of the underlying storage layer and the access engine layer.

By being a truly open table format, Apache Iceberg fits well within the vision of the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP). In fact, we recently announced the integration with our cloud ecosystem bringing the benefits of Iceberg to enterprises as they make their journey to the public cloud, and as they adopt more converged architectures like the Lakehouse.

Let’s highlight some of those benefits, and why choosing CDP and Iceberg can future proof your next generation data architecture.  

By Guest Authors: Erwin Huizing and Grace Reed @ Google

We believe in the power of choice for Machine Learning development, and continue to invest resources to make it easy for ML practitioners to train, deploy, and orchestrate models from a single unified data and AI cloud platform. We’re excited to announce our role as a founding member of the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, which will better position Google Cloud to make meaningful contributions to the PyTorch community. As a member of the board, we will deepen our open source investment to deliver on the Foundation’s mission to drive adoption of AI tooling by building an ecosystem of open source projects with PyTorch. We strongly believe in choice and will continue to invest in frameworks such as JAX and Tensorflow and support integrations with other OSS Projects including Spark, Airflow, XGBoost, and others.

By Guest Author: Jared Pane, @ Elastic

As higher education institutions operate in a changed world, IT leaders in education continue to work through issues that came to the forefront during the pandemic.

Educational technology plays a big role, especially when it comes to equitable access to education. But IT leaders are also focusing on the back end, and leveraging analytics to inform their decision making as they restore, evolve, or transform digital ecosystems for increasingly blended learning environments.

Three areas where analytics from the existing digital ecosystem enable a better student experience are: online learning, cost management, and cyber and information security. Whether IT leaders tackle one or all three, they have the ability to make a lasting impact using the Elastic search and analytics platform.

Test automation is less and less, a topic unknown to all development team managers and their teams. However, it is still a very challenging topic, whether from a technological perspective or in defining how timely its implementation will be.