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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

The Netflix TechBlog

It facilitates the distribution of these learnings to other models, either through shared model weights for fine tuning or directly through embeddings. In NLP, the trend is moving away from numerous small, specialized models towards a single, large language model that can perform a variety of tasks either directly or with minimal fine-tuning.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019.

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A look behind the scenes of AWS Lambda and our new Lambda monitoring extension

Dynatrace

At AWS re:Invent in 2018, the Lambda team presented an excellent talk. What the Lambda team introduced in 2018, for example, the new Firecracker VM, has since been fully rolled out. Stay tuned?for When using a platform, it always helps to have a rough idea of its inner workings. just a first step—we have lots of?great?functionality?in

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bpftrace (DTrace 2.0) for Linux 2018

Brendan Gregg

Here's key differences as of August 2018: Type DTrace bpftrace. to answer, an answer that directs further tuning: whether you need to separate applications on different disks, or tune one application's disk workload. ## Why did this take so long? function @ = quantize(value) @ = hist(value). variable this->name $name.

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Tune Linux Kernel Parameters For PostgreSQL Optimization

Percona

In this post, we will discuss some important kernel parameters that can affect database server performance and how these should be tuned. You can tune the difference between the two ratios depending on your disk IO load. You can tune other parameters for performance, but the improvement gains are likely to be minimal.

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2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use

Scalegrid

Other category, including migrations, queries, comparing, tuning, and replication. from a Most Time-Consuming PostgreSQL Management Task report we compiled in October of 2018, but significantly increased when we expanded this question to all database management systems. for each cleaning and database setup. of responses!

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Bringing AV1 Streaming to Netflix Members’ TVs

The Netflix TechBlog

The specification of AV1 was published in 2018. The Encoding Technologies team took a first stab at this problem by fine-tuning the encoding recipe. Stay tuned! Netflix is proud to be a founding member of AOMedia and a key contributor to the development of AV1. Another exciting direction we are exploring is AV1 with HDR.

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