Engineering at Meta
MARCH 12, 2024
Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training. We are strongly committed to open compute and open source.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Sharing a belief that open source solutions will foster innovation and transparency in generative AI development, Databricks has announced a partnership and participation.
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InfoQ Articles
MARCH 14, 2024
Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood during QCon San Francisco 2023. This article represents the talk, which will start with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals, which will facilitate a deep dive into the understanding of the system.
DoorDash Engineering
MARCH 12, 2024
The DoorDash ETA team is committed to providing an accurate and reliable estimated time of arrival (ETA) as a cornerstone DoorDash consumer experience. We want to ensure that every customer can trust our ETAs, ensuring a high-quality experience in which their food arrives on time every time. With more than 2 billion orders annually, our dynamic engineering challenge is to improve and maintain accuracy at scale while managing a variety of conditions within diverse delivery and merchant scenarios.
Confluent
MARCH 12, 2024
Leverage Confluent Data Streaming Platform to bring real time to your smart warehouse, powering greater IoT automation, efficiency and cost savings.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Introduction Let’s explore a common scenario – your team is eager to leverage open source LLMs to build chatbots for customer support interactions.
InfoQ Articles
MARCH 12, 2024
In this article, we show how you can write advanced macros to step through Rust code and modify it. Using the standard tooling available in the syn crate, we first show how to change the occurrence of a panic into an Err. Then we go a step beyond and use the Fold trait to recursively step through the entire function, automatically executing a change in every applicable location.
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Confluent
MARCH 13, 2024
Our Women’s History Month special Confluent Champion post highlights how Senior Account Executive Bahar Sandal drives Women in Tech initiatives.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Policymakers around the world are paying increased attention to artificial intelligence. The world’s most comprehensive AI regulation to date was just passed by.
InfoQ Articles
MARCH 11, 2024
When it comes to software architecture, should you adopt an agile or a lean approach? The answer, of course, is "it depends." Agile is better suited for situations where you know what you need, but not how to build it. Lean is more appropriate when requirements are certain and you want to optimize a well-known process.
Dataversity
MARCH 14, 2024
Many companies hesitate to migrate to the cloud for a variety of valid reasons. However, these migration concerns are often based on misconceptions that keep companies from realizing the financial and operational benefits of the cloud. The following blog post addresses some of the myths around the public cloud, including cost control obstacles, compliance shortfalls, […] The post Debunking Cloud and Cloud Migration Myths appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Mixpanel
MARCH 15, 2024
We’re excited to introduce Borrowed Properties, where you can “borrow” a property from one event to another on the fly, and you can analyze as though that property has been tracked on that event all along. Previously, there was no way you could combine data between events. Let’s say you need to break down an event by a property that doesn’t exist on that event itself, but it does exist in prior events.
databricks
MARCH 11, 2024
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Feature Serving. Features play a pivotal role in AI Applications, typically requiring considerable.
InfoQ Articles
MARCH 13, 2024
Making large, important technical decisions is a critical aspect of a senior individual contributor's role. This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework developed in the 1970s, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small.
Dataversity
MARCH 15, 2024
Only 52% of employees are confident their organization will ensure AI is implemented in a responsible and trustworthy way, according to Workday’s Closing the AI Trust Gap report. Trust will be key to getting employees engaged in the change needed to realize AI’s full potential. In my last post I looked at what can be done from a cultural perspective.
Confluent
MARCH 11, 2024
Uncover the importance of finding your personal champions as women in tech—and unlock insights and strategies to navigate and thrive in the tech industry.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is top-of-mind with every C-suite in Retail & Consumer Goods. Companies see the potential to deliver better customer service, derive faster.
Packet Pushers
MARCH 15, 2024
Matt Horn built a data center network through automation, remotely. This is the future of network engineering. Matt shares how his team did it technically: Terraform, a little Ansible, leveraging pipelines, etc. But he also shares the processes and culture that made it happen: Management and peer buy-in, tight enforcement based on user access, and. Read more » Matt Horn built a data center network through automation, remotely.
Dataversity
MARCH 15, 2024
Consider these statistics: 75% of IT decision-makers have reported gaps in the skill sets of their IT staff – and this is a 145% increase over the past seven years, reported Skillsoft. Six in 10 large enterprises reported a skills gap, according to the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). Globally, the shortage of qualified IT professionals was […] The post Answers for the IT Skills Gap appeared first on DATAVERSITY.
Obkio
MARCH 15, 2024
Discover how Obkios Network Performance Monitoring tool helps network admins proactively monitor Citrix SD-WAN networks.
databricks
MARCH 11, 2024
"Building vehicles that are more like smartphones is the future. We're about to change the ride just like Apple and all the smartphone.
Noction
MARCH 15, 2024
BGP flapping has the potential to wreak havoc on network stability and performance. By fostering a comprehensive understanding of the various causes and acknowledging the critical role of proactive monitoring software, network administrators can effectively prevent this issue and safeguard smooth, uninterrupted network operations.
Dataversity
MARCH 12, 2024
While early science fiction shows like “Buck Rogers” (1939) and “The Fly” (1950) depicted teleportation technology, it was Star Trek’s transporter room that made real-time living matter transfer a classical sci-fi trope. While we haven’t built technology that enables real-time matter transfer yet, modern science is pursuing concepts like superposition and quantum teleportation to facilitate information transfer across any distance […] The post 10 Advantages of Real-Time Data Streaming in C
Obkio
MARCH 14, 2024
Learn proactive monitoring strategies to identify and troubleshoot Internet brownouts affecting your business network.
databricks
MARCH 15, 2024
On ecommerce platforms, a good product description can make an item stand out and drive sales. A good product description should not only.
Network Engineering
MARCH 14, 2024
So I have a 2.5Gbps NIC on my server PC, but my main questions are: note: I'm using consumer grade switches will a 2.5Gbps switch split the load with two 1 Gbps switch? will the 1Gbps be better on internal switching than the multiple switches?
Dataversity
MARCH 11, 2024
Research has shown that information and communication technology’s true proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions, including cloud computing, could be around 2.1-3.9%, which equates to higher emissions than the aviation industry. And as businesses increasingly rely on the cloud, minimizing this impact becomes critical. While most major cloud providers are talking about going green– AWS and […] The post Going Green: 3 Actionable Steps to Implement Sustainable Cloud Computing appeared fi
Packet Pushers
MARCH 13, 2024
What if you could eliminate the burdens of networking without losing your control and visibility of the network? Thats the idea behind Nile. With Nile co-managing the network, you dont have to spend all your time chasing down tickets, running patches, and dealing with CLI syntax. Instead you get to focus on higher level tasks. Read more » What if you could eliminate the burdens of networking without losing your control and visibility of the network?
Obkio
MARCH 13, 2024
Discover how to identify and troubleshoot network brownouts effectively. Learn the impacts, causes, and preventive measures to ensure network resilience.
databricks
MARCH 13, 2024
Game development is a multifaceted journey that stretches from the initial concept to post-launch support and live operations. At the heart of this.
Dataversity
MARCH 11, 2024
Millions of people are using ChatGPT on a regular basis to assist them in both personal and professional capacities. This month’s question centers on the data used to prompt ChatGPT. Our reader, who shared that they are an ESL speaker, would like to know if it’s ethical to have ChatGPT create summaries of information (specifically, […] The post Ask a Data Ethicist: What Data Is OK to Use to Prompt ChatGPT?
Packet Pushers
MARCH 12, 2024
According to Bryson Bort, you can build higher metaphorical fences, electrify them, and have sharks with laser beams prowling the moat, but attackers are still going to get through the security perimeter. Thats why the priority of any IT team should be to identify anomalies and anticipate attack logic. To do this, organizations need to. Read more » According to Bryson Bort, you can build higher metaphorical fences, electrify them, and have sharks with laser beams prowling the moat, but atta
Obkio
MARCH 13, 2024
Unleash the power of synthetic traffic with the top 14 synthetic network monitoring tools. Discover the ultimate arsenal to monitor your network performance.
VIAVI Solutions
MARCH 12, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is a significant driver in the future of the networking industry. Traditional networking infrastructure struggles to keep pace with the performance, speed and capacity requirements of AI/ML applications. To address this challenge, there has been a push towards higher-speed 800G optical transceivers and the emergence of 1.6Tb/s, alongside […] The post Faster, Simpler and Smarter Fiber Inspection with the INX 760 Probe Microscope appeare
Wahl Network
MARCH 12, 2024
I saw an interesting question asking how to improve documentation practices in a Slack forum and thought I’d answer it here in longer form. The OP wanted to know: How are you handling documentation? Where in the development pipeline should documentation take place? Do you work on documentation during the project or at the end of the project? Who is responsible for seeing documentation produced?
Packet Pushers
MARCH 11, 2024
This week we discuss a new network observability offering from Arista that integrates network telemetry with application data, why startups such as Groq and Taalas think they can break Nvidia’s grip on the AI chip market, and how Microsoft is hedging its LLM bets. Amazon goes nuclear with the purchase of a reactor-powered data center. Read more » This week we discuss a new network observability offering from Arista that integrates network telemetry with application data, why startups
Obkio
MARCH 12, 2024
Embrace a monitoring revolution with our thrilling list of the top 29 PRTG alternatives for 2024. From open-source to enterprise & performance monitoring.
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