If you are a Global 20,000 company and you want to build a large language model that is specifically tuned to your business, the first thing you need is a
Keep the monolith, but split the workloads | incident.io
Everybody loves a monolith, but you can hit issues as you scale. This post is about a technique – splitting your workloads – that can significantly reduce that pain, costs little, and can be applied early.
Chaos engineering has emerged as an increasingly essential process to maintain reliability for applications — or in not only cloud native but any IT environment.
Feel the Power: IBM intros Direct PCIe-attach drives – Blocks and Files
IBM now provides direct, switchless access to a Power server’s flash drives, the aim being to enable more cores to access more drives with higher data access bandwidth. The Power server products are IBM’s proprietary servers and pretty much the last proprietary server CPU technology holdout against the dominant x86 processors and rising Arm and […]
19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings
Suppose that you assigned everyone an 19 digit number. What is the probability that two human beings would have the same number? It is an instance of the Birthday’s paradox. Assuming that there are 8 billion people, the probability that at least two of them end up with the same number is given by the … Continue reading 19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings
We read a fairly large number of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and it is a rare thing indeed when we can recommend that everyone – or damned
It is thankfully common wisdom nowadays that documentation must be placed as near as possible to the code it documents, and should be fine-grained to a minimal unit of describability (the thing being documented). The practice provides numerous benefits to the codebase and project as a whole: