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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Run Massive-Scale UMAP in Minutes Using Multiple GPUs—Without Losing Accuracy

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used for visualization and feature extraction. Applications... Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used for visualization and feature extraction. Applications range across exploratory data analysis, topic modeling, and single-cell analysis. Many of these workflows are iterative and exploratory, requiring UMAP to be run repeatedly as u

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AWS Database Blog

Integrate your Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey

Learn how to integrate a Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey for caching. This walkthrough covers adding caching to a serverless cache, plus the advantages of Spring Data Valkey over Spring Data Redis: native AWS IAM authentication, Availability Zone affinity, and OpenTelemetry observability.

Amazon ElastiCacheIntermediate (200)Technical How-to
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AWS Database Blog

Scale pgvector with binary quantization on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

Learn how to use binary quantization with reranking (HNSW+BQ) in pgvector to scale vector search to hundreds of millions or billions of vectors on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, with practical guidance on index sizing, recall validation, and the scenarios where the approach works best.

Advanced (300)Amazon AuroraPostgreSQL compatible
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AWS Database Blog

Migrate Oracle Materialized Views with AWS DMS and Fast Refresh

Learn how to configure Oracle Materialized Views with Fast Refresh and materialized view logs to enable efficient, incremental AWS DMS change data capture (CDC) replication. This approach eliminates full-reload overhead and achieves near real-time migration of large, multi-table joined views to AWS.

Advanced (300)AWS Database Migration ServiceTechnical How-to
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DZone

Arm64 Is No Longer the Edge Case

For years, Arm64 was the platform people talked about as a future bet. It was useful in embedded systems, interesting in research, and easy to dismiss as “not the main thing.” That era is over. In a conversation between Dave Neary, Director of Developer Relations at Ampere Computing, and Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux stable kernel maintainer and long-time kernel developer, the message is clear: Arm64 has become mainstream. It is no longer a special-case architecture. It is a first-class platform in

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