There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of this code base inside Facebook, is also powering production jobs at Baidu, Box, and Wikipedia. …
The people in the systems business at Hewlett-Packard have finally caught the DevOps bug. …
Back in the late 1980s, while working in the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs, deep leaning pioneer, Yann LeCun, was just starting down the path of implementing brain-inspired machine learning concepts for image recognition and processing—an effort that would eventually lead to some of the first realizations of these technologies in voice recognition for calling systems and handwriting analysis for banks. …
Facebook’s social network is free, but that does not mean that the company’s 1.2 billion users do not have expectations for uptime and durability of the photos and videos they store on the service. …
Not all of the NoSQL and NewSQL databases that are created by hyperscale companies or by database experts trying to best them at the latency or scalability game are going to make it as commercial products over the long haul. …
An online retail business for handmade and vintage goods might be a place where you would reasonably expect the IT department to have nearly free reign to create homegrown systems. …
Facebook and its peers in the hyperscale sector have been pushing the very closed network switch business to open up and embrace hardware designs that look more like X86 servers and that are based on a Linux operating system. …
Sometimes a microserver is just a little too micro to do the job, something that a lot of skeptics have been saying about so-called “wimpy core” machines since the idea took off about five years ago. …
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
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