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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Oracle released the first fully functional one in 1979, but today there are hundreds of proprietary and open-source options available.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

Let’s look at a broader range of (somewhat randomly selected) open source projects: It looks like Git is somewhat of an outlier here. The aggregate model doesn’t necessarily have super strong predictive power – it’s hard to point to a arbitrary open source project and expect half of it to be gone 3.33 years later.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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C4 PlantUML: Effortless Software Documentation

Apiumhub

An excellent way to approach it is with C4 PlantUML—a powerful tool that allows developers to generate comprehensive system architecture documentation with just a few lines of code, making the documentation process not only efficient but also an integral part of the development workflow. Detail component implementation specifics.

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Frugality meets Accuracy: Cost-efficient training of GPT NeoX and Pythia models with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Variety of tasks such as speech recognition, text generation, and question answering are demonstrated to have stupendous performance by these model architectures. Several recent models such as NeoX , Falcon , Llama use the GPT architecture as a backbone. Both are decoder models following similar architectural design as Chat GPT3.

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Understanding Technical Debt and Why Recruiting the Right Tech Talent is the Solution

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Martin Fowler, the chief scientist at ThoughtWorks built upon David Cunningham’s idea and created the ‘Technical Debt Quadrant’ in 2009. If the codebase isn’t built with a clear architecture and modularity, it naturally becomes harder to introduce new features. Going open source. Why does it occur?

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Apiumhub organizes the Global Software Architecture Summit in Barcelona, October 10, 2019

Apiumhub

2019 has become a remarkable year for Apiumhub ; new office, Apium Academy , Open Source Projects , software architecture meetups, cool innovative projects and… we can’t wait to share with you guys that the Apiumhub team is organizing the Global Software Architecture Summit (GSAS) 10th of October in Barcelona.