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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

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Virtually all modern software and applications built today are distributed systems of some sort, says Sam Newman , director at Sam Newman & Associates and author of Building Microservices. Even a monolithic application talking to a database is a distributed system, he says, “just a very simple one.”. Reliability.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. masks and glasses), and environmental aspects like the lighting and even the “lens type” of the virtual camera. And the quality of synthetic data is dependent on the quality of the algorithm that created it.

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