Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #8
ML Ops, Good (data) Hygiene and Engineering Excellence
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the >1,000 members of the Decibel community every month. Let’s dive in!
One Big Trend Worth Your Time
We’re in the age of Big Data, of bigger AI efforts, and even more complex Machine Learning structures. While that world of promise seems appealing, as operators, we have to be practical as well. Finding the right data to guide your engineering organization into hyper growth, or selecting the right training data to level up your ML models is an art in and of itself. It’s one organizations have to invest in.
What good is data if your engineers can’t access it quickly and easily? How can you leverage Big Data if it overwhelms your systems preventing strategic consumption, utilization and leverage? Now, more and more companies are focusing on the way they source, pipe, and use data instead of focusing simply on how large those data sets are. Abacus.ai, Cube and Pachyderm will help enable hyper growth by up-leveling the quality of data engineering efforts and the efficiency of your pipelines, not necessarily the quantity of that data.
Extending DevOps to Applications Drives Digital Transformation and Optimizes Customer Experience
The Data-Centric AI Movement and Opportunities for the MLOps Ecosystem
Still looking for quantity: The Ultimate Guide to Synthetic Data: Uses, Benefits & Tools
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
An Inside Look at Innovation
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Attending AWS re:Invent IRL??
We are hosting a cocktail party at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Dec. 1 and would love to see you there! Please drop me a note so we can get you on the list, past the Vegas bouncers, and into the fun.
Decibel Friends and Family Update
🎉 Congratulations…
Tariq Hassan to McDonald’s as Chief Marketing and Digital Customer Experience Officer
Charley Snyder joins Google as Head of Cybersecurity Policy
Aman Sirohi now Chief Information Security Officer at People.ai
Steven Long heads to On24 as CIO at ON24
Eric Schou appointed CMO at AppDynamics
🚀 Botpress, Cube and Slim.ai achieve “Minicorn” status = high growth, early stage, open source rockstars
See you next time.
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Stacey