ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications.

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

There was a good talk on How to Build Responsible Systems While Leveraging Generative AI Capabilities by Sriram Subramanian of Microsoft, and I had several interesting conversations with him. We’re already seeing the beginning of this direction with conversational programming and operations tooling like DoTheThing.ai

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Various software systems are needed to design, build, and operate this CDN infrastructure, and a significant number of them are written in Python. Such applications track the inventory of our network gear: what devices, of which models, with which hardware components, located in which sites.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Another significant issue within security concerns is the escalating complexity of modern systems, especially in platforms like Kubernetes, which highlights the need for unified threat models and scanning tools to address vulnerabilities. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

By Fabio Kung , Sargun Dhillon , Andrew Spyker , Kyle , Rob Gulewich, Nabil Schear , Andrew Leung , Daniel Muino, and Manas Alekar As previously discussed on the Netflix Tech Blog, Titus is the Netflix container orchestration system. everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

High Scalability

JULY 26, 2018

Peter : DARPA foresee a third one in which context-based programs are able to explain and justify their own reasoning. Ops: "Sorry, 3-5 month lead time on DC hardware and our switches are near capacity" - coming soon to an on-prem "serverless" project near you. Only maintenance from now on, everything new will be in @rustlang.

Internet 124

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 124

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The findings from our 2023 Open Source Database Report highlight that a substantial 42% of all database instances are now licensed through community-supported open source models, and GitHub reports that over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have established open source program offices (OSPO) to coordinate and manage their open source initiatives.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. We could see it as an example of 1980s-style “ expert systems ,” based on deterministic business rules. Developers who are automating business systems have to determine where humans belong in the loop.

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Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Raven is the system that Microsoft built to explore this question, and answer it with a resounding yes. Unlike SQL queries which are declarative, such models are expressed as imperative programs heavily dependent on libraries. matrix multiplication and convolution), higher level machine learning operators (e.g. categorical encoding).

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

ACM Sigarch

APRIL 8, 2019

However, we often hear anecdotes that the number of prospective graduate students applying to computer architecture/systems is small and shrinking. Not all computer science degree programs offer computer architecture classes to undergrads, and ones that do, may offer it as one of many electives. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

Architecture 74

Architecture Open Source Hardware Software Engineering 74

Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

” This contains updated and new material that reflects the latest C++ standards and compilers, with a focus to using modern C++11/14/17 effectively on modern hardware and memory architectures. On April 25-27, I’ll be in Stockholm (Kista) giving a three-day seminar on “High-Performance and Low-Latency C++.”

Latency 51

Latency C++ Hardware Performance 51

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. We also provided web-based training, self-paced labs, customer support, third-party offers, and up to $100,000 in AWS service credits–all at no charge.

AWS 124

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And thirdly, an "algorithmic revolution" has taken place, meaning it is now possible to train trillions of algorithms simultaneously, making the whole machine learning process much faster. For example programming interfaces that developers can use to analyze images, change text into true-to-life language or create chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

After 20 years of neck-in-neck competition, often starting from common code lineages, there just isn't that much left to wring out of the system. Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. PWA App Icon Badging.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JANUARY 16, 2024

I even contributed my own hot take last year with my O’Reilly Radar article Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT.) I’ve recently been brainstorming ideas for how to design such a system and how to deal with the practical challenges of scaling and maintenance. software” rather than “hardware” in our brains).

Entertainment 72

Entertainment Internet Internet Design 72

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

editingemily : "In peacetime, a ticketing system is great. Uniting multidisciplinary teams of researchers and educators from 17 universities, IRIS-HEP will receive $5 million a year for five years from the NSF with a focus on producing innovative software and training the next generation of users. @RachFrieee : 3.6B

Internet 30

Internet Internet Scalability Education 30

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Recall that browsers arose atop platforms that universally provided a host of services by the late 90's: system fonts (to support layout programs, including WYSIWYG editing). multi-tasking & concurrent programming. high-color image raster.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

Most recently, IBM used Flickr photos that were shared under a Creative Commons license to train facial recognition algorithms. There may be alarm systems. There have been cases of harassment, intimidation, and domestic abuse by people whose access should have been revoked: for example, an ex-partner turning off the heating system.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. I fear we will not be so lucky; an entire generation has been trained to ignore reality, to prize tribalism rather than engineering rigor, and to devalue fundamentals.

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Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Java used to power core file system code. What is the name of your system and where can we find out more about it?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52