Many companies today find themselves having to rethink how they build their workforce in the face of urgency to digitally transform and adopt AI, while politics and the global economy are impacting from where talent with those skills can be sourced, according to a new report on talent acquisition. The evolution of what is being … continue reading
The technology investment company Prosus has announced its intent to acquire the online development community Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. According to Stack Overflow, this acquisition will enable it to continue to operate as an independent company, but with the backing of a “global technology powerhouse.” “Prosus is one of the world’s leading technology investors … continue reading
Built.io aims to boost innovation and foster a creative developer culture with its new Built.io Community, which consists of technical and semi-technical users with an understanding of automation and integration. Built.io, a digital automation platform, is known for its integration tool Built.io Flow, which lets developers and non-developers connect with an API builder. Built.io Flow … continue reading
Databricks has introduced Spark Datasets, an extension of the DataFrames API that provides a type-safe, object-oriented programming interface. Spark 1.6 includes an API preview of Datasets, and they will be a development focus for the next several versions of Spark. Databricks was founded out of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of Apache Spark, and … continue reading
