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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

With common compute resources most (serial) computing challenges can be solved. Resources are available on-demand, no ordering/waiting time for the deployment of resources. It dynamically scales resources up and down, ensuring optimal utilization and cost-efficiency. Reduced ongoing costs.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 3: The Affinity Between Events, Streams and Serverless

Confluent

Given that it is at a relatively early stage, developers are still trying to grok the best approach for each cloud vendor and often face the following question: Should I go cloud native with AWS Lambda, GCP functions, etc., The key to event-first systems design is understanding that a series of events captures behavior.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Microsoft also provides tools and resources to help developers build responsible AI systems. Radiologists outperform AI systems operating by themselves at detecting breast cancer from mammograms. However, a system designed to collaborate with radiologists in making decisions is better than either radiologists or AI alone.

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Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

in 2008 and continuing with Java 8 in 2014, programming languages have added higher-order functions (lambdas) and other “functional” features. AWS Lambda) only change the nature of the beast. An engineer can’t get the resources for some project, so they create an AWS account, billed to the company credit card. FaaS, a.k.a.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Based on the answer to these questions, Amazon introduced a service called Lambda in 2014 that responds to events quickly and inexpensively. Lambda replaced the need for customers to pay for servers sitting around listening for events to occur – reducing the cost (and Amazon’s revenue) for event-driven systems by a factor of 5 to 10 (!).