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Top tips: Four ways artists can prevent their work from being used to train AI image generation tools

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll discuss how artists can prevent their work from being used to train Generative AI models. Aren’t AI image generation tools impressive forms of tech? I mean, it still feels unreal (to me, at least) that you’re able to get complete works of art within a few seconds from a simple textual prompt.

Monitoring as Code and Checkly Listed in the Gartner Hype Cycle for the Second Consecutive Year

I'm excited to share that Gartner has included Monitoring as Code (MaC) as an emerging practice to their Hype Cycles for SREs again, the second year in a row. Since we founded Checkly, our vision has been that monitoring should sit in your repository, be codified, and scale with your software development. There is no alternative to MaC as it allows your engineering team(s) to work together, create and maintain checks, and ultimately own their monitoring.

Harness AI for financial services IT

IT operations teams in the financial services industry face serious challenges. Customers expect a seamless experience across a complex landscape including online platforms, mobile devices, and ATMs. Competition is fierce. Technology evolution continually disrupts the marketplace. These factors create obstacles for the teams tasked with ensuring near-perfect service availability while continuing to innovate.

GenAI for customer support - Part 1: Building our proof of concept

Welcome to the Inside Elastic blog series, where we showcase Elastic's internal operations solving real-world business challenges. This specific series will shed light on our journey to integrate generative AI into our customer success and support operations, providing you with a behind-the-scenes look at our process. We’re blogging about this capability as we’re building it, and we’re excited for you to join the ride!

Redis is No Longer Open Source. Is Valkey the Successor?

Redis is no longer open source. In March 2024 the project was relicensed, leaving its vast community confused. But the community did not give up, and started work to fork Redis to keep it open. On my recent OpenObservabilty Talks episode, I delved into Valkey, a prominent fork of Redis.

Datadog on LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents

As companies rapidly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs), understanding their unique challenges becomes crucial. Join us for a special episode of "Datadog On LLMs: From Chatbots to Autonomous Agents," streaming directly from DASH 2024 on Wednesday, June 26th, to discuss this important topic. In this live session, host Jason Hand will be joined by Othmane Abou-Amal from Datadog’s Data Science team and Conor Branagan from the Bits AI team. Together, they will explore the fascinating world of LLMs and their applications at Datadog.

Running ML/LLM models on Kubernetes Across Major Cloud Providers with Abhishek Choudhary

Abhishek, co-founder and CTO of @truefoundry, explores the complexities of building a machine learning platform on Kubernetes. Discover solutions to challenges like handling diverse hardware, managing large Docker images, and optimizing costs. Learn how True Foundry uses tools like Argo CD, Keda, and Istio to create efficient abstractions for data scientists and streamline ML operations.