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by douglasfshearer 8y ago
It would be fairer to compare with an AWS ElastiCache Redis instance [0]. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/redis/
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by douglasfshearer 8y ago
Amazon also do similar with their ENA [0]. James Hamilton talked about it in 2016 [1]. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/06/introduci... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
> MySQL 8.0 delivers SQL window functions. Great to see these in a MySQL release. Something so worth having I once had a script which would automate MySQL -> Postgres for data analytics purposes.
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Thanks.
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
If it's just Bitcoin named in the bylaw, what's to stop the mining enterprises from switching to mining another cryptocurrency?
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
P3.16x benchmark is ResNet-152, TPU cost of $200 was for ResNet-50. Tensorflow benchmarks show ResNet-152 resulting in 2.4x lower throughput than ResNet-50. [0] [0] https://www.tensorflow.org/performance/benchmarks
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
100% of the original power usage. Not a 100% increase in power usage, that wouldn't be thermally possible in cases of high CPU load.
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Ruby 3 and JIT: Where, When and How Fast?(engineering.appfolio.com)
2 points by douglasfshearer 9y ago|0 comments
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Spam receiving services seem to provide fertile ground for heavy optimisation of storage. See also Mailinator. [0] [0] http://mailinator.blogspot.ae/2007/01/architecture-of-mailin...
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
SEC rules also cover cancellation of orders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_Rule_10b5-1#A_possible_loo...
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The Attack of the Superfakes(techcrunch.com)
1 points by douglasfshearer 9y ago|1 comments
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
To save others time, the output of GZThermal is a PNG image called gzthermal-output.png.
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Neocities [0] does all of this! - It's free (though you can become a supporter and get some extra benefits) [1] - It's fast, since it uses it's own CDN. [2] - It's secure, all pages support SSL, even with custom domains.
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
> Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Replace IBM with Intel for the 2010s version.
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Train Hopping in the Sahara(adventure.com)
4 points by douglasfshearer 9y ago|0 comments
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Great post. It's good to see an enterprise smaller than Segment [0] talk about how complex AWS pricing is. You mention you use SQS to queue incoming metrics. What server/framework/language are you using to do this? IME using
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Apple just announced support at WWDC.
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Maciej publishes a yearly progress statement [0] with revenues and costs included. [0] https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
Intel are moving to a similarly big socket for next-gen Xeons, LGA-3647 [0]. It's already in use for socketed Phi processors. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_3647
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
The Larrabee project, and all the things it spawned [1], is fascinating. [1] http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
The paper doesn't mention "commodity", and I'm not sure that one to four Xeon Phi can be described as commodity. Can the title be edited?
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Tachyon – AWS Lambda-powered image resizing(hmn.md)
2 points by douglasfshearer 9y ago|0 comments
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by douglasfshearer 9y ago
In the case of the Queensferry Crossing I wonder if ease of cable replacement is one of the reasons behind the design choice. The Forth Road Bridge [0], a suspension bridge over the Forth to the East of the Queensferry crossing, has suffere
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by douglasfshearer 10y ago
Someone updated the 10-series Wikipedia page [1] making comparison to the previous card easier. Compared to the Titan X Pascal it has more cores, a higher clock, and more memory bandwidth. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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A Simple Pattern for Jobs and Crons on AWS(blog.skyliner.io)
48 points by douglasfshearer 10y ago|11 comments
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Is your company really only doing $45,000 per month?(blog.baremetrics.com)
2 points by douglasfshearer 10y ago|0 comments
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by douglasfshearer 10y ago
It seems status pages should be on entirely independent infrastructure, give the criticality of the information they provide. Perhaps even a separate domain.
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by douglasfshearer 10y ago
The Evernote engineering team posted a five part blog post [1] that goes deep on the detail of the migration and work to maintain consistency. TLDR: Shard at a time was replicated over the network, then live traffic was cut over to the Goog
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Watch Drew Wilson Develop Live(youtube.com)
1 points by douglasfshearer 10y ago|0 comments
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by douglasfshearer 10y ago
Amazon announced they were doing network processing in hardware at Re:work last week [1]. Custom silicon, rather than the FPGA or ASICS they were using when they started the project in 2012. They tout not only the freed CPU resources, but l

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