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Scaling with RAG: The recipe for real-time, accurate responses
Language models like ChatGPT have proven to be powerful tools for brainstorming new ideas, writing emails, and tackling various creative tasks. Using these models in their default state—known as zero-shot prompting—offers convenience. However, as exciting as it is to generate quick responses, this approach presents several challenges, especially when attempting to scale up and bring ideas to production.
Pipeline As a Service (PaaS): our journey from centralised to self-service data workflows
In this article, Luis will share the journey of transitioning from a team that creates data pipelines for stakeholders to establishing a self-service framework, which aligns with our vision of building a data mesh.
BurdaForward Automates Scaling, Cuts Infrastructure Costs by up to 65% on AWS
Digital publisher BurdaForward, an arm of Hubert Burda Media, needed to update its infrastructure to increase flexibility and accelerate innovation. At the same time, the company sought to reduce overcommitment and optimize costs by automating capacity scaling.
„Honey, I shrunk the cloud bills” – 5 Learnings after a Cloud Cost Reduction Project
At one point, in every company there will come the time, where the focus is on cost reduction. It might be found in different (less obvious) wordings and the reasons may vary. Yet, the goal is the same: Spend less money! While it should always be in a company’s focus to work economically reasonable, it is sometimes pushed even more than usual.
Disaster recovery: How to enable automatic backups of an Atlas MongoDB cluster
In today’s technology-driven world, data is the lifeblood of any organization. For businesses relying on MongoDB as their database solution, safeguarding critical data against potential disasters is not just a best practice but a mission-critical necessity. Imagine the nightmare of losing your entire database due to an unexpected failure or cyberattack. It’s a scenario that no one wants to experience.
AWS Custom Lenses: Customize your own Lens to see your architectures clearly
AWS Well-Architected tool gives you flexibility to create your own custom lenses with your own pillars, questions, best practices, and improvement plan. These lenses can be utilized in a similar way as you employ AWS provided lenses. Custom lenses can be shared across the AWS accounts to reuse.
AWS Well-Architected review: Know your Cloud Architecture well
I might be working on AWS Cloud Architecture which seems to be free of vulnerabilities, but how to be sure? The answer to this is an AWS Well-Architected review. It is a framework built as per AWS best practices. The Framework helps in learning architectural best practices for designing and operating secure, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workloads in the AWS Cloud.
Migrating to Cloud: 8 learnings
BurdaForward has come a long way when it comes to our infrastructure. Starting with our own on-premise servers in 2005, then switching to a dual data center provider 10 years later and finally arriving in a “real” cloud setup in 2021. What sounds like a smooth transition and logical evolution, did not always feel that smooth.