TL;DR Building in the cloud? Make sure your workloads aren’t held together with duct tape and wishful thinking. The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps you design reliable, secure, cost-effective systems by following six key principles: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. Use the AWS Well-Architected Tool to review workloads, tailor assessments with […]
Unleashing Creativity Through Decisive Action Introduction In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, the ability to innovate swiftly and effectively is crucial for success. One key principle that separates thriving organizations and individuals from the rest is a “bias for action.” This mindset prioritizes taking decisive, proactive steps over endless deliberation and analysis. A bias […]
In the world of Big Data, choosing the right storage format is critical for the performance, scalability, and the efficiency of analytics and processing tasks. Apache Parquet, Apache ORC, and Apache Arrow are three popular formats commonly used for data storage and processing within the ecosystem. While each of these formats serves a distinct purposes and has unique optimizations, […]
A Deep Dive into an AWS OpenSearch + Bedrock + Chainlit RAG Pipeline Introduction This article explains how to build a question-answering system that processes PDF and Video Text Track (VTT) files, index them in AWS OpenSearch, and serve fast answers to users. It uses AWS Bedrock (Anthropic Claude) for language processing and Chainlit for a chat-based interface; through this, […]
Introduction S3 Lifecycles provide a fantastic way to manage the lifetimes of S3 Objects. Working in AWS and in bigger organizations, you will inevitably have objects lingering (often in standard storage), costing you money. Lifecycle rules offer an easy way to trim some fat, which can both help you save money and exist in a tidier […]
How Ancient Wisdom Can Transform Modern Data Practices Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” offers timeless wisdom that transcends the battlefield, providing insights applicable to various domains, including data engineering. In this field, success is not merely about coming up with innovative ideas or implementing initial solutions. True success is measured by how effectively these […]
Foundational Computational Linguistics Concepts and how they relate to Language Models LLMs are all the rage, and to use them effectively as engineers and users of any kind we could benefit from thinking about them in the context of some core Natural Language Processing (NLP) concepts. At New Math Data, we’ve been building a lot […]
From Ancient Wisdom to Thriving in Modern Times Introduction In a world where ownership and control often dominate our thoughts and actions, it’s easy to forget the transient nature of our existence. We spend so much time acquiring and holding onto things that we lose sight of what truly matters. Instead of owning people, places, […]
Exploring the Intersection of Information Theory and Natural Sound Introduction In our increasingly digital world, the way we store and transmit information is becoming ever more crucial. Imagine trying to pack a suitcase with as much efficiency as possible, fitting in everything you need without wasting any space. In information theory, this idea translates into […]
Introduction After exploring how vector databases work and trying the AWS OpenSearch vector database in this blog post, the goal of this article is to experiment with a similar product from Databricks – Mosaic AI Vector Search. We will create a new Vector Search endpoint and index, load the toy dataset, try to perform similarity […]