AI hardware too expensive? ‘Just rent it,’ cloud providers say

Whenever a tech titan makes a sweeping statement about the future, industry professionals and even everyday users listen with both curiosity and skepticism. This was the case after Jeff Bezos recently said that in the future, no one will own a personal computer. Instead, we will rent computational power from centralized data centers. He likened…

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The ‘Super Bowl’ standard: Architecting distributed systems for massive concurrency

In the world of streaming, the “Super Bowl” isn’t just a game. It is a distributed systems stress test that happens in real-time before tens of millions of people. When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a “thundering…

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