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Article: Building a Global Caching System at Netflix: A Deep Dive to Global Replication

Netflix's EVCache system handles 400M ops/second across 22,000 servers, managing 14.3 PB of data. This infrastructure ensures global availability and resilience through intelligent data routing and flexible replication strategies. By implementing batch compression and switching to DNS-based discovery, Netflix optimizes efficiency, reduces bandwidth usage and significantly lowers operational costs.

By Sriram Rangarajan, Prudhviraj Karumanchi

Podcast: The Ongoing Challenges of DevSecOps Transformation and Improving Developer Experience

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Kentosh about the ongoing challenges organisations face in their DevOps, DevSecOps and digital transformation journeys.

By Adam Kentosh

Maybe WebAssembly Is the Next Evolutionary Step From Containers: Fermyon at InfoQ DevSummit Munich

During her presentation at the inaugural edition of the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich, Danielle Lancashire, principal software engineer at Fermyon and co-chair of the CNCF wasm-wg, hinted at WebAssembly containers as a greener alternative and a potential evolution from the current containerised approach to serverless computing.

By Olimpiu Pop

NVIDIA Unveils NVLM 1.0: Open-Source Multimodal LLM with Improved Text and Vision Capabilities

NVIDIA unveiled NVLM 1.0, an open-source multimodal large language model (LLM) that performs strongly on both vision-language and text-only tasks. NVLM 1.0 shows improvements in text-based tasks after multimodal training, standing out among current models. The model weights are now available on Hugging Face, with the training code set to be released shortly.

By Robert Krzaczyński

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: How to Optimize Java for the 1BRC

Java applications passed the 1 Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) in 1.5 seconds. 1BRC creator Gunnar Morling detailed their optimizations at the InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. General optimizations applicable to all Java applications cut the runtime from 290 seconds to 20 seconds. Getting to 1.5 seconds required niche optimizations that most Java applications should forego, except for possibly GraalVM.

By Karsten Silz

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