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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 22nd, 2019

High Scalability

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. I'd greatly appreciate your support on Patreon. It has 41 mostly 5 star reviews.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

Some protocols can run afoul of this changing topology — even something simple, like a wireless client disconnect. If one of these clients is on a wireless connection that gets interrupted, the client proxy continues to exist. This level of freedom enables deployment topology to change with almost reckless abandon.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 8th, 2019

High Scalability

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. EFF : EU countries that do not have zero rating practices enjoyed a double digit drop in the price of wireless data after a year. It's HighScalability time: Change is always changing. What will the next 5 years look like?

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Generative AI in the Enterprise

O'Reilly

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.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

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. I got to work on something so big a cloud provider learned about their scale bottlenecks. It would mean a great deal to me.