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Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs

Joe Rowell explores the use of unified memory on modern GPU, the low-level details of how unified memory is realized on an x86-64 system, and some of the tools to understand what's happening on a GPU.

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Architecture & Design

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0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months

Zahan Malkani shares how they built a microblogging service to compete with Twitter with a small team that shipped a new social network in a few months.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

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Generally AI - Season 2 - Episode 2: Fantastic Algorithms and Where to Find Them

Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford discuss their favorite algorithms, starting with the etymology of the word "algorithm". Roland introduces the concept of probabilistic counting, focusing on the HyperLogLog algorithm, which can be used to estimate the count of unique items. Meertens shares his own personal algorithm for estimating how many people he talks to at conferences.

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Great Products Need Closer Collaboration Between Product, Engineering and Design

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Maria Fernandez Guajardo about how product management has evolved, with the need for closer collaboration between product, engineering, and design, especially in the age of AI.

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Proactive Approaches to Securing Linux Systems and Engineering Applications

Maintaining a strong security posture is challenging, especially with Linux. An effective approach is proactive and includes patch management, optimized resource allocation, and effective alerting.

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Not Just ORM: Powerful Hibernate ORM Features and Capabilities

Brett Meyer demos using multiple-tenancy, geographic data, auditing/versioning, sharding, OSGi, and integration with Hibernate.

Brett Meyer
on Sep 20, 2014

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One to Many: The Story of Sharding at Box

Tamar Bercovici presents Box’s transition from a single MySQL database to a fully sharded MySQL architecture, all the while serving 2 billion queries per day.

Tamar Bercovici
on Nov 17, 2013

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MySQL Usage of Web Applications with 1 User and 100 Million

Peter Boros discusses a MySQL architecture useful for the majority of projects, backup, online schema changes, reliability and scalability issues, and basics of sharding.

Peter Boros
on Oct 06, 2013

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Scaling Pinterest

Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner share lessons learned growing Pinterest: sharding MySQL, caching, server management, all on Amazon EC2.

Marty Weiner Yashwanth Nelapati
on Mar 26, 2013

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Executing Queries on a Sharded Database

Neha Narula provides advice on choosing a data store for a web applications and executing distributed queries.

Neha Narula
on Feb 28, 2013

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Scaling with MongoDB

Roger Bodamer provides advice on scaling out MongoDB using replica sets and auto-sharding, plus tips for database deployment and scaling use cases.

Roger Bodamer
on Mar 02, 2011

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