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Gray’s ‘5 minute rule’ in the cloud era
If an item is accessed frequently enough, it should be main memory resident. For 1987 technology, “frequently enough” means about every five minutes.
Aussie engineers, get to The States!
The E3 is for you and me.
More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
You should have private evals
Everybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.
The First LLM
Jeremy Howard and Sebastian Ruder created the first LLM.
Zen of Slack, Part 2: Against DMs
If it's not private, it goes in a channel.
Me and Brendan Gregg vs. the 1 billion row challenge: a worklog (Part 1)
Is one book and a can-do attitude all you need to write fast code?
Why does an NVIDIA H100 80GB card offer 85.52 GB?
Digging into the memory capacity of NVIDIA GPUs.
Memory Snapshots: Checkpoint/Restore for Sub-second Startup
Andrew Morton tried to warn us, but we’ve sided with the Russians and gone a bit mad.
Beyond ‘latency numbers every programmer should know’
Took 10 years, but there's finally a better list.
An ‘All Souls Examination’ of the machine
Inspiration towards a better software essay.
A brief history of our serverless future
Just over ten years ago, Tim Wagner walked down a chain-link fenced office corridor towards The Chop…
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