Tim Paul watched a talk about sustainable AI at Services Week 2024 by software developer Ishmael Burdeau, who mentioned the Jevons paradox. The paradox explains how energy efficiency gains can result in more energy consumption rather than less, seen in various scenarios such as improving road networ.. read more  

"Canonical’s 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard in performance engineering, enterprise security and developer experience.".. read more  

High throughput shared file systems are crucial for HPC and AI environments, providing the storage needed for training large models or conducting research. With Amazon FSx for Lustre, organizations can leverage AWS compute, network, and storage resources on-demand, reducing time and cost. By utilizi.. read more  

Cloudflare now offers software development kits (SDKs) for Typescript, Go, and Python. To get started, install the packages using the following commands: npm install cloudflare for Typescript, go get -u github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-go/v2 for Go, and pip install --pre cloudflare for Python. Autom.. read more  

AWS provides horizontal scaling, but vertical scaling is not available. By using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms, Amazon RDS Events, Simple Notification Service, and Lambda Functions, the goal of vertical autoscaling was achieved... read more  

There are several key issues that can affect ML models' functional performance in production, including training-serving skew, data and concept drift, and data processing pipeline issues. Monitoring model performance in production requires setting up a system that can ingest data and prediction logs.. read more  

Last week saw the release of EndeavourOS Gemini, Fedora 40, and Ubuntu 24.04, all featuring the latest Linux kernel 6.8, GNOME 46 desktop, and some with KDE Plasma 6. Fedora has multiple editions including Workstation, Spins, Atomic Desktops, and variants for Server, IoT, Cloud, and CoreOS. Ubuntu 2.. read more  

The Implement DNS in a weekend project by Julia Evans is a guide for building your own DNS resolver from scratch, with explanations on the DNS message format and compression techniques. The Header section in the DNS message has a fixed length of 64 bits and contains essential flags for processing qu.. read more  

In the wake of Devin’s groundbreaking revelation, the world of software engineering finds itself at a pivotal moment. The rise of code agents like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Devin AI has opened up new possibilities in software development. As we navigate this new era, tools like SWE-B.. read more