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DatabricksDatabricks

Business Analytics: Essential Tools, Techniques and Skills for Data-Driven Success

A pragmatic guide to business analytics that shows how data, analytics and machine learning transform raw information into actionable insights across descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics, powered by modern visualization and scalable data architectures.

2/17/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

From BRICKSTORM to GRIMBOLT: UNC6201 Exploiting a Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Zero-Day

Technical deep-dive into UNC6201's zero-day exploitation of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, detailing BRICKSTORM's replacement with GRIMBOLT, the C# Native AOT backdoor, and VMware pivot techniques.

2/17/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Best Practices for High QPS Model Serving on Databricks

Leverage Databricks Model Serving to achieve low-latency, high-throughput real-time inferences at high QPS by deploying models behind route-optimized endpoints and applying scalable, production-grade best practices.

2/17/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

The Marketing Cloud and Adstra deliver identity resolution through Databricks Clean Rooms for secure, privacy-first marketing data collaboration

Technical overview of how The Marketing Cloud, Databricks Clean Rooms, Adstra, and Stagwell enable privacy-first identity resolution and secure first-party data enrichment for omnichannel marketing.

2/17/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

New BigQuery global queries let you explore distributed data with a single SQL statement

Global queries in BigQuery enable querying distributed data across regions with a single SQL statement, eliminating ETL and enabling secure, governance-friendly multi-location analytics.

2/17/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Models That Prove Their Own Correctness

Explores self-proving models that certify their outputs to a verification algorithm via interactive proofs, using transcript-based learning and verifier-feedback-driven learning to guarantee correctness with high probability and detect incorrect results.

2/17/2026
PinterestPinterest

Drastically Reducing Out-of-Memory Errors in Apache Spark at Pinterest

Strategies to drastically reduce Out-of-Memory Errors in Apache Spark deployments at Pinterest.

2/17/2026
InstacartInstacart

Turning Data into Velocity: Caper’s Edge and Cloud Data Flywheel with Capsight

Capsight transforms Caper’s edge-captured, multimodal store data into a self-improving data-to-model flywheel—accelerating AI training through AI-assisted annotation and distributed learning to dramatically shorten end-to-end cycles.

2/17/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Ship Enterprise Apps Faster with Databricks AppKit and Replit

Databricks AppKit and Replit enable rapid, production-grade development and deployment of data- and AI-powered enterprise apps on Databricks, with built-in governance and secure integration across data sources and models.

2/17/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

Dear Duolingo: Why are there so many German possessive pronouns?

Practical guide to German possessive pronouns, showing how gender and case determine endings, base forms, and usage patterns for singular and plural nouns.

2/17/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Asynchronous Verified Semantic Caching for Tiered LLM Architectures

Proposes Krites, an asynchronous, LLM-judged caching policy for tiered LLM architectures that expands static cache coverage by validating near-threshold prompts with an LLM and promoting verified matches into the dynamic cache, boosting static hits without increasing critical-path latency.

2/16/2026
SalesforceSalesforce

How Agentforce Achieved Accurate Flow Generation Across 461 Billion Monthly Executions Using a Constrained DSL

Shows how Agentforce replaced fine-tuned models with a constrained, multi-stage DSL to deliver deterministic, high-accuracy Flow generation at scale across 461 billion monthly executions, with validation at every stage and metadata discipline.

2/16/2026