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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Deus Robotics specializes in full-cycle projects, including hardware engineering, software development, and integration, focusing on automating warehouse and logistics operations. Knopka “The advanced nurse call system for patient care automation on hospital beds.” It includes a smart hardware device and a mobile application.”

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Computing power might be quite large, but it is always finite, and the distributed system must decide which jobs should be scheduled to run where and when, and the relative priority of those jobs. The more widely distributed your system, the more latency between the constituents of your system becomes an issue,” says Newman.

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Solving The Von Neumann Bottleneck With FPGAs

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

In a data-stream based system, execution of a program is not determined by instructions, but rather by the transportation of data from one cell to another—as soon as a unit of data arrives at a cell, it is executed. It can be upgraded easily with a new firmware image in the same fashion as for switches or routers today.

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

They start with a research experiment here, a marketing project there, a group that’s frustrated with the time it takes to requisition hardware, and so on. NoSQL is really more a movement than a technology —one that’s devoted to expanding the number of storage options for system designers. Cloud deployments aren’t top-down.

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

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Trendy, fashionable things are often a flash in the pan, forgotten or regretted a year or two later (like Pet Rocks or Chia Pets ). New frameworks appear every day (literally), and our corporate clients won’t suddenly tell their staff to reimplement the ecommerce site just because last year’s hot framework is no longer fashionable.

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Book Review: Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Henrik Warne

They do not modify the input, they do not have any side effects other than producing the output, and the files are written once, in a sequential fashion. MapReduce jobs read and write files on a distributed file system. There are similarities between how MapReduce works and how the piped-together Unix tools work.