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The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year

When Ray first emerged from the UC Berkeley RISELab back in 2017, it was positioned as a possible replacement for Apache Spark. But as Anyscale, the commercial outfit behind Ray, scaled up its own operations, the “Ray Read more…

Anyscale Nabs $100M, Unleashes Parallel, Serverless Computing in the Cloud

With a fresh $100 million in the bank and $1 billion valuation, UC Berkeley’s RISELab alum Anyscale is now set to scale up its business as the latest data unicorn. The company also announced the general availability of Read more…

Larry Smarr: The Future of Distributed Computing Is Here

Larry Smarr may have stepped back from full-time work in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, but that doesn’t mean he’s slowing down. In fact, since his schedul Read more…

Rethinking Log Analytics at Cloud Scale

Log analytics is soaring in popularity, and Elasticsearch has captured a lot of that growth. But running a performant Elasticsearch cluster at scale is notoriously difficult. Now a company called ChaosSearch is touting a Read more…

Anyscale Emerges from Stealth with Plan to Scale Ray

Anyscale emerged from stealth today with a Series A round of venture capital worth $20.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz and the rough outlines of a plan to scale Ray, the RISELab technology that effectively turns every Read more…

Why Every Python Developer Will Love Ray

There are many reasons why Python has emerged as the number one language for data science. It's easy to get started and relatively forgiving for beginners, yet it's also powerful and extensible enough for experts to take Read more…

What’s Hot This Summer: Data Science Bootcamps

Summer is here and temperatures are rising. While some of us take vacations or cool off at the beach, prospective data scientists are heating up their job prospects by participating in one of a growing number of data sci Read more…

Distributed Computing Tops List of Hottest Job Skills

If you have cloud and distributed computing skills, your job prospects for 2016 are golden. That's because those particular job skills—which parallel the rise of Hadoop and other distributed computing frameworks--topp Read more…

As Data Science Evolves, It’s Taking Statistics with It

While there are disagreements about what exactly constitutes a "data scientist," there's little doubt that one of the critical components involves statistical aptitude. And as the data science profession evolves, it's ta Read more…

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