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Unless you’ve been living off the grid, the hype around Generative AI has been impossible to ignore. A critical component fueling this AI revolution is the underlying computing power, GPUs. The lightning-fast GPUs enable speedy model training. But a hidden bottleneck can severely limit their potential – I/O.

This article explains how Shopee’s “Data Access as a Service” improves API flexibility and speeds up interactive queries for developers.

Presto is a popular, open source, distributed SQL engine that enables organizations to run interactive analytic queries on multiple data sources at a large scale. Caching is a typical optimization technique for improving Presto query performance. It provides significant performance and efficiency improvements for Presto platforms.

Uber is using Alluxio’s virtual distributed file system to speed its Hadoop-based analytics processing by caching hot read data.

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s “Heard on the Street” round-up column! In this regular feature, we highlight thought-leadership commentaries from members of the big data ecosystem. Each edition covers the trends of the day with compelling perspectives that can provide important insights to give you a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

In this article, we will discuss how data engineers and data infrastructure engineers can make Trino, a widely used query engine that’s faster and more efficient.

As the cloud grows in popularity and its use expands, enterprises are finding that their cloud costs also expand, including little-understood egress costs. Adit Madan, director of products at Alluxio, sheds light on several best practices that can help you reduce these costs.

We take a closer look at Alluxio, an open-source data orchestration technology that’s dramatically changing the field of analytics and AI for the cloud. Our guest, Adit Madan, Director of Product Management at Alluxio, guides us through their journey and how they’re shaping the future of data management.

Alluxio today announced its participation at Data + AI Summit, taking place June 26 – 29, 2023 at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA and virtually. Alluxio will also showcase its open source data platform in booth #29 during the event.