High Scalability

MARCH 29, 2019

I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 for people who need to understand the cloud. million bits : information learned by average adult; 7.7% : Amazon's share of US retail sales; 100 million : Stack Overflow monthly visitors; $156B : Consumer spending in apps across iOS and Google Play by 2023; Quotable Quotes: John C.

Internet 198

Internet Internet Scalability Retail 198

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Indeed, Google recently announced LaMDA , a model at GPT-3 scale that is designed to participate in conversations. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. But there’s no reason that Google and Facebook shouldn’t be accepting deposits, facilitating payments, making loans, managing assets, running quantitative investment funds.

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 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. Instead, let’s get every possible edge case understood by mingling Google’s training data with that from the other manufacturers.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 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. Retail: $20 trillion. However still far from Google ($28B) and Facebook ($13.2B). It would mean a great deal to me. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19. The authors of today’s paper should know a thing or two about that: Jeffrey Mogul and John Wilkes at Google 1 ! The VM is reachable from the Internet? What are we talking about. What is ‘up’? The VM is provisioned? The VM is running an OS?

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum can run on any Linux server, whether it is hosted in the cloud or on-premise, and can run in any environment. The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321