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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. Comments tell you about the state, not the code. So many more quotes.

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ChatGPT, Author of The Quixote

O'Reilly

And the space is moving quickly: SORA , OpenAI’s text-to-video model, is yet to be released and has already taken the world by storm. It takes the prompt and just returns one of the most similar “training documents” it has in its database, verbatim. At the other end of the extreme consider a search engine. joined Flickr.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

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. It is likely that entire companies will be in the business of identifying these nuances and selling them as “fingerprint databases” for identifying fake news articles.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Are we embedding YouTube videos?

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Fallacy #3: Bandwidth is infinite

Particular Software

Everyone who is old enough to remember the sound of connecting to the Internet with a dial-up modem or of AOL announcing that "You've got mail" is acutely aware that there is an upper limit to how fast something can be downloaded, and it never seems to be as fast as we would like it.

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Fallacy #4: The network is secure

Particular Software

To get data from a different network, you needed to browse in a separate room, as workstations did not have access to the Internet. Design secure systems: See what Udi has to say in Day 1 of his Advanced Distributed Systems Design video course. That's just simple economics. But they may not even have to.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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