High Scalability

MARCH 22, 2019

slobodan_ : "It is serverless the same way WiFi is wireless. They'll learn a lot and love you even more.5 5 billion : weekly visits to Apple App store; $500m : new US exascale computer; $1.7 Hell, many of these providers are just providing open source API compatibility with custom-built backends! Yep, there are more quotes.

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Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 134

High Scalability

JUNE 29, 2018

kellabyte : LOL at racking up an AWS bill of $140,000 in 4 hours of compute time. kellabyte : Recently I got to work on a project that really stressed Amazon AWS scalability. We spun up a cluster of 100,000 AWS instances multiple times. Google applies bulk discounts after the fact, AWS makes you ask for them ahead of time.

Scalability 131

Scalability Internet Internet Wireless 131

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

How will AI adopters react when the cost of renting infrastructure from AWS, Microsoft, or Google rises? Now we expect wireless everywhere, and even that’s not correct. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure. But they may back off on AI development.

Open Source 112

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112