Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I had attended these events when I was based in the UK, but became one of the organizers. He hasn’t changed.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

We built Axion primarily to remove any training-serving skew and make offline experimentation faster. We make sure there is no training/serving skew by using the same data and the code for online and offline feature generation. Our machine learning models train on several weeks of data.

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Storage Design Scalability Latency 187

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. In this hypothetical example, the flow trains two versions of a model in parallel and chooses the one with the highest score.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

On the other hand, very few data scientists feel strongly about the nature of the data warehouse, the compute platform that trains and scores their models, or the workflow scheduler. In this hypothetical example, the flow trains two versions of a model in parallel and chooses the one with the highest score.

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Open Source AWS Infrastructure Energy 134

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The storage systems weve pioneered demonstrate extreme scalability while maintaining tight control over performance, availability, and cost. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Though the AWS Cloud gives you access to the storage and processing power required for ML, the process for building, training, and deploying ML models has unique challenges that often block successful use of this powerful new technology. The challenges begin with collecting, cleaning, and formatting training data.

Tuning 94

Tuning AWS Scalability Infrastructure 94

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There is no structural separation as there is with a train service. For example, AWS created Nitro. Would Nitro have been invented if AWS was restricted to being a platform provider? Without cloud services, there is no cloud because a cloud is literally defined by the services it offers.

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. Recommendations.

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