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DatabricksDatabricks

Decoupled by Design: Billion-Scale Vector Search

First-principles redesign of vector search that decouples storage from compute to scale to billions of vectors with a storage-optimized, IVF-based architecture, Spark-based ingestion, and a dual Rust runtime for fast, cost-efficient queries.

3/9/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

The Professional Impact of Becoming Databricks Certified

Databricks Certifications are accelerants of credibility and career progression, enabling scalable data and AI work that boosts organizational agility and delivers measurable business outcomes.

3/9/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Introducing Kasal

Kasal democratizes agentic AI by offering a visual, drag-and-drop platform to design, deploy, and observe single and multi-agent workflows with Databricks integration and an exportable code path for experts.

3/9/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Business Intelligence Analytics: A Complete Guide for the AI Era

Explores how business intelligence is evolving into AI-enabled, data-intelligence-driven analytics, integrating descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive methods with compound AI and AI-native BI to enable self-service, real-time decision-making across organizations.

3/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: U.S. State and Local Government Professional Security Services 2025–2026 Vendor Assessment

Google is named Leader in IDC MarketScape for U.S. state and local government professional security services 2025–2026, underscoring AI-augmented security with Gemini AI, Mandiant frontline expertise, and end-to-end incident response to boost resilience across agencies.

3/9/2026
MetaMeta

How Advanced Browsing Protection Works in Messenger

Technical overview of Messenger's Advanced Browsing Protection (ABP) showing how privacy is preserved while detecting malicious links in end-to-end encrypted chats, via PIR-based URL matching, OPRF, ORAM (Path ORAM), and OHTTP.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Complexity is a choice. SASE migrations shouldn’t take years.

A concise blueprint showing that complexity in SASE migrations is a choice, detailing how Cloudflare One enables rapid, programmable zero-trust deployments from 18-month timelines to six weeks via identity-first on-ramps, consolidated policy engines, and cloud-native connectors, with a focus on safe AI.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Active defense: introducing a stateful vulnerability scanner for APIs

Cloudflare launches a stateful, AI-assisted API vulnerability scanner that actively hunts authorization flaws like BOLA at the edge, using OpenAPI-driven scan planning and DAST-style testing integrated with API Shield for proactive API security.

3/9/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Fixing request smuggling vulnerabilities in Pingora OSS deployments

How Pingora 0.8.0 patches HTTP/1.x request smuggling vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-2833/2835/2836) with RFC-compliance hardening and upgrade guidance for standalone deployments.

3/9/2026
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Game on with Spanner: How Playstation achieves global scale with 91% less storage, 50% lower costs

Case study of Sony's Entitlements migration to Google Cloud Spanner delivering global-scale, zero-downtime operations with a single source of truth, TrueTime-driven consistency, and major storage and cost reductions.

3/9/2026
DuolingoDuolingo

How I spent my 2-month paid sabbatical

Case study on planning and executing a two-month paid sabbatical to balance deep exploration with professional momentum, drawn from Peru and New Zealand adventures.

3/9/2026
DatabricksDatabricks

Transforming Healthcare Referrals with Fivetran, Agentic AI, and Databricks Genie

Unifies fragmented healthcare data with Fivetran, Databricks Genie, and Agentic AI to optimize referrals, enable HIPAA-compliant AI agents, and empower clinicians with natural-language insights and end-to-end data activation.

3/9/2026