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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Netflix consolidated its relational databases onto Amazon Aurora, cutting costs by 28% and boosting performance by up to 75%. The move from self-managed PostgreSQL reduced operational toil, improving latency for critical apps. This mirrors migrations by Samsung and Panasonic, though benchmarks suggest alternatives like Timescale may suit specific workloads better.
By Mark Silvester
The TornadoVM project recently reached version 2.0, a major milestone for the open-source project that aims to provide a heterogeneous hardware runtime for Java. The project automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. This release is likely to be of particular interest to teams developing LLM solutions on the JVM.
By Ben Evans
Hugging Face has released the first candidate for Transformers v5, marking a significant evolution from v4 five years ago. The library has grown from a specialized model toolkit to a critical resource in AI development, achieving over three million installations daily and more than 1.2 billion total installs.
By Robert Krzaczyński
Now stable, Ax is an open-source platform from Meta designed to help researchers and engineers apply machine learning to complex, resource-intensive experimentation. Over the past several years, Meta has used Ax to improve AI models, accelerate machine learning research, tune production infrastructure, and more.
By Sergio De Simone
Lyft has rearchitected its machine learning platform LyftLearn into a hybrid system, moving offline workloads to AWS SageMaker while retaining Kubernetes for online model serving. Its decision to choose managed services where operational complexity was highest, while maintaining custom infrastructure where control mattered most, offers a pragmatic alternative to unified platform strategies.
By Eran Stiller
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Happy birthday, Chris! Hope all is well.
Hi Chris and welcome to Codetown! Hope to see you at tonight's GatorJUG. Don't foret to join the GatorJUG Town group here within Codetown: http://www.codetown.us/group/gatorjugtown
All the best,
Mike