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A case for managed and model-less inference serving

The Morning Paper

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. First off there still is a model of course (but then there are servers hiding behind a serverless abstraction too!). autoscaling).

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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

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Building an elastic query engine on disaggregated storage

The Morning Paper

This paper presents Snowflake design and implementation along with a discussion on how recent changes in cloud infrastructure (emerging hardware, fine-grained billing, etc.) Of course, this has to be done whilst retaining strong isolation properties. From shared-nothing to disaggregation. The scorecard.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.). This could of course be a local worker on the mobile device. Future work includes delving into more realistic use cases and addressing other challenges related to mobile computing such as energy efficiency.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. This strategy reduces the volume needed during retrieval operations.

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SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools

Dotcom-Montior

We are kidding of course, but you know something is bad if happens that early in the morning. By ITIL definition, the service desk may take the form of incident resolution or service requests, but whatever the case, the primary goal of the service desk to provide quick and efficient service. Nothing good happens at 2:00 a.m.,

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

This includes the work done by the server, the client and the intermediary communications networks that transmit data between the two. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. Reduce Network Requests. Large preview ).