High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. A satellite image of phytoplankton populations or algae blooms in the Baltic Sea.

Internet 134

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The most obvious change 5G might bring about isn’t to cell phones but to local networks, whether at home or in the office. Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. High-speed networks through 5G may represent the next generation of cord cutting.

Wireless 53

Wireless Serverless IoT Artificial Intelligence 53

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

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. This is an area where cloud providers already bear much of the burden, and will continue to bear it in the future.

Open Source 108

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 108