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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. When you think about generative AI, what instinctively comes to your mind is content and image generation. But, in this week’s Top tips column, let’s look at a less-explored facet of generative AI: data analytics. There are a lot of conversations about data and its benefits.

With over 500,000 residential, business, and wholesale customers across multiple markets in the United States, WideOpenWest (WOW!) is one of the United States’ largest broadband providers. They aim to connect homes and businesses to the world with fast and reliable internet, TV, and phone services.

With Kubernetes emerging as the de facto operating system of the cloud, capable of running almost anything, it’s not a surprise that many enterprises are rapidly porting their Apache Spark workloads to Kubernetes. This includes migrating Amazon EMR workloads to Amazon EKS to gain the additional deployment and scaling benefits of a fully managed service like Amazon EKS.

What is Customer Data Management? Simply put, customer data management (CDM) is a discipline that encompasses the process, strategy, tools and policies an organization employs to acquire, manage, store and use data about its customers, specifically for marketing purposes.

Predictive modeling is the process of using known results to create a statistical model that can be used for predictive analysis, or to forecast future behaviors. It’s a tool within predictive analytics, a field of data mining that tries to answer the question: “What is likely to happen next?”

Wholesale distribution and fulfillment services company, Essendant, saves time and gains agility with Aiven's open source tool.

Industrial IoT (IIoT) machines and sensors generate valuable time series data. It’s impossible to derive the insights necessary to inform decisions as a company to produce or operate more efficiently without sending operational technology (OT) data to informational technology (IT) systems.

Kubernetes or K8s is an open-source production-grade container orchestration system for automating, scaling, and managing containerized applications. A container is a lightweight, standalone, executable ready-to-run software package that contains everything needed to run an application. It includes the runtime, code, libraries, systems tools, and default values for any essential settings.

This article coins the term “FDAP stack”, explains why we used it to build InfluxDB 3.0, and argues that it will enable and power a generation of analytics applications in the same way that the LAMP stack enabled and powered a generation of interactive websites (by the way we are hiring!).