Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines. Performing updates, installing software, and resolving hardware issues requires up to 17 hours of developer time every week.

Serverless 242

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 242

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Even with cloud-based foundation models like GPT-4, which eliminate the need to develop your own model or provide your own infrastructure, fine-tuning a model for any particular use case is still a major undertaking. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And then there was the other problem: for all the fanfare, Hadoop was really large-scale business intelligence (BI). Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99