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. of users) report that “infrastructure issues” are an issue. We’ll say more about this later.) Which Model?

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Cloud computing? Plus there was all of the infrastructure to push data into the cluster in the first place. Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And that brings our story to the present day: Stage 3: Neural networks High-end video games required high-end video cards.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

This tradeoff is unacceptable to public infrastructure providers, who need both strong security and minimal overhead. The ideal isolation solution would have the following properties: Strong isolation (multiple functions on the same hardware, protected against privilege escalation, information disclosure, covert channels, and other risks).

Serverless 101

Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

When you’re running in the cloud your containers are in a shared space; in particular they share the CPU’s memory hierarchy of the host instance. These applications range from critical low-latency services powering our customer-facing video streaming service, to batch jobs for encoding or machine learning.

Cache 251

Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 251

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Text, we are repeatedly told, is going out of fashion; all people are interested in now are videos and interactive experiences. MB uncompressed. KG per hour.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Does 5G improve the end-user experience for applications (web browsing, and 4K+ video streaming)? In the radio portion of the network, 5G buffer sizes are 5x 4G, but within the wired portion of the network only about 2.5x (this is with a 1000 Mbps provisioned cloud server). What about UHD video? energy consumption).

Energy 130

Energy Latency Performance Network 130

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

New topics range from additional workloads like video streaming, machine learning, and public cloud to specialized silicon accelerators, storage and network building blocks, and a revised discussion of data center power and cooling, and uptime.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

Alex Podelko

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In this time, I learned a lot, but the price for this was to have to deal with random infrastructure issues and unhelpful support from HP. We quickly figured that the market was quite crowded with Blazemeter spearheading the “JMeter in the cloud” offer. After a year I was put in charge of the Performance Center platform (9.52

Open Source 223

Open Source Performance Testing Testing Performance 223

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

everything from the frontend API for netflix.com, to machine learning training workloads, to video encoders. Our Media Cloud Engineering team wanted to leverage containers for a new platform they were building, called Archer. These CVEs did not affect our infrastructure because we were using user namespaces for all of our containers.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Assets Optimizations Brotli, AVIF, WebP, responsive images, AV1, adaptive media loding, video compression, web fonts, Google fonts. Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

The Morning Paper

JULY 4, 2019

Netflix’s system is deployed on the public cloud as complex set of interacting microservices. In this type of environment, there are many potential sources of failure, stemming from the infrastructure itself (e.g.

Latency 77

Latency Engineering Metrics Traffic 77

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

To get a good first impression of how your competitors perform, you can use Chrome UX Report ( CrUX , a ready-made RUM data set, video introduction by Ilya Grigorik and detailed guide by Rick Viscomi) or Treo Sites , a RUM monitoring tool that is powered by Chrome UX Report. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

Customers such as Electronic Arts, News International, SmugMug, Shazam, IMDb, Amazon Cloud Drive, and many others are using DynamoDB to power their applications. We switched to storing our game data in DynamoDB, which alleviated our scaling problems while also freeing us from the burden of managing all the underlying hardware and software.

Games 142

Games Scalability AWS Database 142

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. Video Transcoding. Infrastructure Optimization.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52