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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure

CIO

Many of the world’s IT systems do not run on the latest and greatest hardware. This will continue due to the typical budget, spending, and equipment update cycles of everyone from the hyperscale cloud to small enterprise. From the perspective of IT equipment, we could assume that anything that is not at the bleeding edge is legacy.

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History of Flight Booking: CRSs, GDS Distribution, Travel Agencies, and Online Reservations

Altexsoft

By 1974, ATPCO managed to modernize its hardware, connecting to the CRS distribution. Nevertheless, new conditions were unprofitable: travel agencies had to pay for the hardware maintenance, reducing fees by making more bookings. 2001-2004: Orbitz and KAYAK foundation. 1976: Travel agencies got access to CRSs.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

Netflix Tech

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010. JPEG 444 @ 80,101 bytes versus AVIF 444 @ 85,162 bytes.

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Friction

LeanEssays

The challenge with the full stack approach is you need to get good at many different things: software, hardware, design, consumer marketing, supply chain management, sales, partnerships, regulation, etc. The good news is that if you can pull this off, it is very hard for competitors to replicate so many interlocking pieces."

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“Server Utilization” is a nonsense metric

ProdOps

In 2003 Google invented Borg, the precursor for Kubernetes, and in 2004 Amazon invented Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) a major service providing compute in Amazon Web Services (AWS). And one of the results was this document explaining how to reduce the fine-grained coupling between applications and hardware.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

But the infrastructure VP invented ways for engineering teams to self-provision hardware and self-deploy software, which made it possible for teams to retain responsibility for any problems their services encountered once it went ‘live’, not just during development. (In Berkley is a close neighbor of Stanford, where Google was born.

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The Good and the Bad of Selenium Test Automation Tool

Altexsoft

Jason Huggins’ 2004 creation was a JavaScript framework aimed at freeing its creator from repetitive manual testing. It doesn’t overshadow all of the other test automation tools, especially if you have the budget for them. But for now, let’s examine what it is about Selenium that made it such a big deal.