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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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AI, Rust, and Resilience: Key Software Trends Seen by the QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee

QCon conferences cover emerging trends in software, and this episode features members of the QCon San Francisco 2024 programming committee discussing those trends selected to be the focus of this year’s QCon San Francisco. This discussion is similar to InfoQ trends reports, with expert practitioners highlighting the technologies and practices that they feel deserve attention.

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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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Culture & Methods

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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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DevOps

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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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Microservices: Smaller Is Better?

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Eberhard Wolff discusses the benefits of microservices and some of the advantages of creating smaller services instead of larger ones.

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Eberhard Wolff is a freelance architect, trainer and consultant.

About the conference

Micro Services are a new paradigm for software architecture: small services in separated processes take the place of large applications. This way monolithic architecture can be avoided, and systems are easily scalable and changeable. The microXchg conference looks at a variety of aspects of Micro Services.