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Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI/ML/LLM Workloads
Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how can CPUs and GPUs be utilized?
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Server Driven UI - Streamlining Mobile Development and Release
Thomas Chao discusses SDUI for mobile, what they are, why they are starting to become more prevalent, and the spectrum of possible options one can consider when looking into an SDUI framework.
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Building Guardrails for Enterprise AI Applications W/ LLMs
Shreya Rajpal introduces Guardrails AI, an open-source platform designed to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs.
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Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
Lily Mara and Hunter Laine walk through the design of a system, its performance characteristics, and how they scaled it.
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Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries
Kate Sills discusses JavaScript libraries to use for cryptographic hashes, digital signatures and timestamping, the traditional archival process, and how cryptographic hashes can prevent tampering.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal
Sergey Bykov discusses the concept of Durable Execution, with a real world example of how they used it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud.
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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
Neha Narkhede discusses a vision for fraud and risk management that leverages the advancements in generative AI.
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Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter-Scale
Yao Yue recapitulates scaling a project at Twitter while summarizing some key lessons learned about effective performance engineering.
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Architecting for High Availability in the Cloud with Cellular Architecture
Chris Price discusses cellular architecture, its merits, design options with cellularization, and how to effectively isolate at the level of an AWS account.
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How Do We Talk to Each Other? How Surfacing Communication Patterns in Organizations Can Help You Understand and Improve Your Resilience
Nora Jones discusses how communication patterns in organizations can reveal how systems actually work in practice, vs how we think they work in theory.
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Relational Data at the Edge
Justin Kwan and Vignesh Ravichandran discuss Cloudflare’s edge database architecture, unique challenges and practices for data replication, failover and recovery, and custom performance techniques.
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How to Get Tech-Debt on the Roadmap
Ben Hartshorne discusses how to pitch a product, covering why one needs to make a business case, what tech debt is, what data is most compelling, and getting tech debt on other teams’ roadmaps.