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Who's Hiring? * Symbiont is a New York-based financial technology company building new kinds of computer networks to connect independent financial institutions together and allow them to share business logic and data in real time. This involves developing a distributed system which is also decentralized, and which allows for
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Kuhiro 10X Faster than Amazon Lambda This is a guest post by Russell Sullivan, founder and CTO of Kuhirō. Serverless is an emerging Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution poised to become an Internet-wide ubiquitous compute platform. In 2014 Amazon Lambda started the Serverless wave and a few years later Serverless has extended to
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Luscious visualization of a neural network as a large directed graph. It's a full layout of the ResNet-50 training graph, a neural network with ~3 million nodes, and ~10 million edges, using Gephi for the graph layout, to output a 25000x25000 pixel
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: How a mutex works pic.twitter.com/TwFLAVs2ydOctober 21, 2017 Perfect! Now, imagine a little dog snuck under Big Dog's cone of shame and covered the food with its own cone of shame, and it won't leave. That's
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Who's Hiring? * Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * On-demand Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. In this session, guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering at ThreatMetrix, discuss: How
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This is a guest by Michele Palmia of @EyeEm. We’ve now been running computer vision models in production at EyeEm for more than three years - on literally billions of images. As an engineer involved in building the infrastructure behind it from scratch, I both enjoyed and suffered the
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What is the cloud? Why is it called a cloud? How does the cloud work? What does it mean when something is 'in the cloud'? I wrote a new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10, answering those questions for the complete beginner. It makes the
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Cassini's last image of Saturn, stitched together from 11 color composites, each a stack of three images taken in red, green, and blue channels. (Jason Major) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 21 million: max
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This is a guest post by Jake Lumetta, co-founder and CEO of ButterCMS. ButterCMS lets developers add a content management system to any website in minutes. Our business requires us to deliver near-100% uptime for our API, but after multiple outages that nearly crippled our business, we became obsessed with
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Tech is transforming how food is being grown. Lots of opportunity for local nerdy production. Greenhouses even look like dartacenters! (This Tiny Country Feeds the World) If you like this sort of Stuff then please support me on Patreon. * 320 trillion: ops/second in
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Who's Hiring? * Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events * On-demand Webinar. Fast & Frictionless - The Decision Engine for Seamless Digital Business. In this session, guest speakers Michele Goetz, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Matthias Baumhof, VP Worldwide Engineering at ThreatMetrix, discuss: How
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Update: Ólafur Arnalds built a robotic music system to accompany him on the piano. He calls his system of two semi generative, self playing pianos—STRATUS. You can hear his most recent song re:member. There's more explanation in The Player Pianos pt. II and a short Facebook