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38 stories and discussions about scale, aggregated from every source we track.
Postgres SELECT DISTINCT performs surprisingly poorly. We explain why and how we mitigated it.
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
Connecting one MCP server to one agent is a five minute job. Connecting fifteen of them across four...
Glazer Blog: Get latest insights and best practises on cybercrime investigations, due-diligence workflows, intelligence collection and building with Glazer Technologies. Glazer transforms data into mission-critical…
General methods that scale with computation will inevitably displace hand-engineered domain knowledge! Sutton’s Bitter Lesson hangs like a...
Automatic database management system tuning through large-scale machine learning Aken et al. , SIGMOD’17 Achieving good performance in DBMSs is non-trivial as they are complex systems with ma…
Cloudflare Containers now start 6x faster, let your agent choose each sandbox's image and instance type at runtime, and support filesystem snapshots in public beta, all controlled from a Durable Object.
Deciphering what the Jev architecture is and how I would scale it
The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast
Meet the 86” Hololuminescent™ Display by Looking Glass, a human-scale holographic digital signage system that installs everywhere.
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
TL;DR: We study the scaling laws of data weighting across in-house and open-weight LMs, finding non-monotonic behavior across scales. We vary the weight assi...
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MongoDB 9.0, generally available today, delivers up to 2x higher throughput, 35% faster reads, and 30% faster updates. Atlas Infinite, now in Public Preview, is a new deployment option within Atlas built for extreme…
The terrain of the world, from the Dead Sea to Mount Everest. An interactive elevation map with dynamic colors.
James Coombs is a design engineer who writes the code-review skills that AI agents run on pull...
How Canva keeps hundreds of millions of user sessions fast and secure
We've developed a new testable hypothesis called Behavioral SETI to explain the apparent radio silence.
Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective.
slivingdoc is an MCP server that gives agents one shared directory of notes, merged with Git semantics and stored durably in S3.
What Active Storage does at scale: variants built inside the request, the preprocessed trap, AVIF measured 31.6% under WebP, and the CDN check we failed.
We found a clear internal signal in models that accompanies reward hacking, and built probes that detect it — enabling efficient, real-time detection of reward hacking at scale.
Web Real-Time Communication (or WebRTC) is the open standard browsers use to send audio, video, and...