All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

Amazon SageMaker training supports powerful container management mechanisms that include spinning up large numbers of containers on different hardware with fast networking and access to the underlying hardware, such as GPUs. Post-training model tuning and rich states. This can all be done without touching a single line of code.

Scalability 129

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 129

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. The Top Queries That Weren't.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115

O'Reilly

MARCH 11, 2025

These smaller distilled models can run on off-the-shelf hardware without expensive GPUs. And they can do useful work, particularly if fine-tuned for a specific application domain. Spending a little money on high-end hardware will bring response times down to the point where building and hosting custom models becomes a realistic option.

Artificial Intelligence 63

Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Government Open Source 63

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant.

Ecommerce 121

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 121

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices. It’s worry-free and doesn’t require human intervention.

Cloud 112

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 112

The Morning Paper

JUNE 27, 2019

Systems researchers are doing an excellent job improving the performance of 5-year old benchmarks, but gradually making it harder to explore innovative machine learning research ideas. That said, after around 17 minutes Tensor Comprehensions does find a solution that outperforms a hand-tuned CUDA solution. Breaking out of the rut.

Systems 87

Systems Programming Tuning Innovation 87

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. Now that we have added support for document object model while delivering consistent fast performance, I think DynamoDB is the logical first choice for any application. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 124

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 124

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Effectively applying AI involves extensive manual effort to develop and tune many different types of machine learning and deep learning algorithms (e.g. automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, image classification), collect and clean the training data, and train and tune the machine learning models.

AWS 153

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 153

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Free of vendor lock-in Vendor lock-in refers to the loss of freedom to scale, innovate, or switch to alternatives due to dependencies on a specific database vendor. Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Rather than reimplement TCP/IP or refactor an existing transport, we started Pony Express from scratch to innovate on more efficient interfaces, architecture, and protocol. The ability to rapidly deploy new versions of Pony Express significantly aided development and tuning of congestion control. Emphasis mine).

Network 92

Network Transportation Latency Entertainment 92

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

Social Media 95

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 95

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. That pricing won’t be sustainable, particularly as hardware shortages drive up the cost of building infrastructure.

Open Source 137

Open Source Google Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 137

The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2015

A company financed to produce long-term stable cash flows from operations isn't a company that is prepared to respond to threat of competitive innovation via software or anything else, let alone one that will be a source of competitive disruption. Is every company destined to be a software company? It might consume a lot of software.

Software 40

Software Software Innovation Hardware 40

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components. It enables unbounded scalability as more commodity or specialized hardware can be seamlessly added to existing clusters. What message process warranty level do we require? At least once? At most once? Exactly once?

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Once established, chaos engineering becomes an effective way to fine tune service-level indicators and objectives, improve alerting, and build more efficient dashboards, so you know you are collecting all the data you need to accurately observe and analyze your environment. Accelerates innovation. Increases resiliency and reliability.

Engineering 264

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 264

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. ​​ Extended Data: ​​ “incorrect checksum (expected:​​ ## ; actual:​​ ## )” Contact your hardware manufacture for assistance.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Eventually, we resorted to caching the events in memory for a short duration and also tuning the GC settings on those nodes as we are doing a lot of young generation collections. How are software and hardware upgrades rolled out? AWS : Their pace of innovation is admiring. Miscellaneous. Who do you admire?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Paul Reed, Clean Energy & Sustainability, AWS Solutions, Amazon Web Services SUS101 | Advancing sustainable AWS infrastructure to power AI solutions In this session, learn how AWS is committed to innovating with data center efficiency and lowering its carbon footprint to build a more sustainable business.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Lambda Government 98