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Handling LLM Hallucinations: Taking Your LLM Features From Prototype to Production

LLMs are bound to perform unexpectedly, and this post will cover various manual approaches, generative AI development frameworks, and more to address this.

Taloflow raises $1.3M to automate the soul-sucking software vendor selection process

Taloflow announces funding and its new product replaces homegrown selection processes that last weeks or months.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Partnering with SD Times to Help Software Developers Make Better Stack Decisions

Taloflow has partnered with SD Times to deliver insights on vendors to software developers.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Software Selection

How to Select the Right Software by Engaging Stakeholders

The pathway to a successful software vendor selection involves a deep understanding of stakeholders. We cover how to get the job done here.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

February 15, 2024

Software Selection

Solving Complex Software Evaluations with AHP and ANP

Both AHP and ANP are powerful tools for making decisions about your technology stack, particularly in scenarios involving multiple software criteria.

February 13, 2024

Software Selection

Navigating Software Selection: Unleashing the Power of Scenario Planning and Node Analysis

Organizations can make resilient decisions by incorporating Node Analysis and Scenario Planning into selecting software vendors.

February 8, 2024

Software Selection

Strategic Software Selection with Portfolio Analysis

When choosing a software vendor, portfolio analysis entails making informed, strategic decisions to optimize the overall software portfolio.

February 6, 2024

Software Selection

Exploring Real Options Analysis (ROA) in Software Selection

Real Options Analysis (ROA) is a decision-making approach that originated in finance but has since been applied in various fields, including software selection.

February 1, 2024

Software Selection

Making Informed Software Selection Decisions: MCDA and DMA Compared

By understanding MCDA and DMA, users can make informed software selection decisions that meet their organization's goals and needs.

January 30, 2024

Software Selection

The Top 25 Vendor Selection Software and Tools in 2024

This detailed post covers the universe of tools in vendor selection. We include every step in the process: discovery, selection, RFP, renewal, etc.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

January 26, 2024

Cloud Cost Optimization

How to Optimize Your AWS Costs in 2024: Top Vendors, Tips, and More

There are many tooling options for AWS cost management out there. This post compares the best options by use case.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

January 26, 2024

Software Selection

Software Selection: Your Company’s Future Depends on Getting it Right

Selecting the right software solution has obvious benefits, especially if you can do it right the first time.

January 17, 2024

SMS and Voice API

How to Choose the Best SMS API in 2024

An in-depth review of what an SMS API is, its benefits over email communication, and the key questions you’ll want to consider before choosing an SMS platform.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

October 2, 2023

Cloud Cost Optimization

AWS Reserved Instances - How Much Can You Really Save?

Consider all the various discounts AWS offers to maximize savings and mitigate the risk of overcommitment.

Top 10 Amazon S3 Alternatives in 2024

Object storage vendors enable fast and affordable access to storing any type of content. Learn about the top 10 vendors.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

An In-Depth Guide to Data Labeling - Tools, Best Practices & More

Understand everything you need to know about data labeling and how to select the best tools for your use case.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

October 3, 2022

Amazon Web Services

Is AWS Down? Independent Health Checks for 10 Regions and 7 Services

The Taloflow team is proud to present Is AWS Down?, a free AWS outage/uptime checker that performs thousands of health-checks daily on popular AWS services and regions.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Why just one person can't buy things that work well

This post covers Taloflow's thesis as to why just one person can't buy things that work well for every kind of thing.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Comparing Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, Akamai EdgeWorkers

My Honest Attempt At Building The Same App on Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge and Akamai EdgeWorkers.

December 20, 2021

Cloudflare R2 vs Amazon S3

Cloudflare R2 is after some of Amazon S3's market share. Will their free egress, automatic tiering and other features be compelling enough to switch?

Louis-Victor Jadavji

October 6, 2021

Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?

Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?

Louis-Victor Jadavji

October 6, 2021

Object Storage vs Block Storage - What's the difference?

What exactly is object storage and how does it differ from block storage?

Segment vs Rudderstack vs alternatives in 2022 - Go Data Warehouse-first?

What are the top alternatives to Segment in 2022? Taloflow analyzes and compares customer data platforms.

Bye Tim

Taloflow is winding down Tim, its AWS cost management service

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Cloud Cost Optimization

An easy button for AWS Spot Management? A conversation with Taloflow’s new partner, Xosphere

Customers of Taloflow can use Xosphere in conjunction with its services to seamlessly make use of AWS Spot.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Cloud Cost Optimization

Moving AWS Glue jobs to ECS on AWS Fargate led to 60% net savings

Moving from AWS Glue to ECS on Fargate slashed our pipeline costs. Read about 5 steps we took to do this.

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Cloud Cost Optimization

How we reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline by 67%

Streaming pipelines on AWS can be expensive. Here’s how we cut AWS costs 67% without reserved instances or savings plans

Louis-Victor Jadavji

Cloud Cost Optimization

Taloflow Founder Presents at Vancouver AWS Meetup on Driving AWS Infrastructure Insights into Kafka

The featured technology of Todd Kesselman's presentation is the AWS Event Bus

Cloud Cost Optimization

The ominous opacity of the AWS bill - a cautionary tale

This post is about a Taloflow engineer’s real account of attempting to provision an AWS bill for a client

Frederico Ramos

January 15, 2019

Taloflow achieves AWS Technology Partner status - Advanced Tier

Taloflow is excited to share that we are now an AWS Technology Partner in the Advanced Tier

November 26, 2018

Tim — your cloud on autopilot

Tim monitors your resources and workloads in real-time and provides timely recommendations to optimize your cloud spend

November 25, 2018