How Machine Learning Observability Helps America First Credit Union Stay A Step Ahead

Last month, we hosted an event on “Best Practices in ML Observability for Lending & Insurance” that featured a fireside chat with America First Credit Union’s Data Science Manager Richard Woolston. 

In the wide-ranging interview, Woolston shared his thoughts on the use of AI in the financial services industry and how his team approaches model monitoring and ML observability. Here are some of the more pointed questions from that session, and Woolston’s takeaways.

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Five Retail Shifts That Could Shape The Future

For retailers, 2022 holds both promises and challenges. It could be a banner year for shopping, with e-commerce poised for its first trillion-dollar year, according to estimates from Adobe. But before brands and retailers can take advantage of pent-up shopping demand, they must navigate a few hurdles, including supply chain issues, staffing shortages and the pandemic’s unpredictable trajectory. Beyond these immediate challenges, retailers must consider new consumer patterns and expectations, the point and purpose of the retail space moving forward and the growing role of technology innovation in their business strategy.

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Federate access to Amazon Redshift using the JDBC browser plugin for Single Sign-on authentication with Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Recently, we helped a customer who was building their data warehouse on Amazon Redshift and had the requirement of using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as their corporate IdP with MFA. This post illustrates how to set up federation using Azure AD and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Azure AD manages the users and provides federated access to Amazon Redshift using IAM.

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