Code
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic
Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
Control
Future Kubernetes Will Mimic What Facebook Already Does
If you want to see what the future of the Kubernetes container management system will look like, then the closed source, homegrown Tupperware container control system that Facebook has been using and evolving since 2011 – before Docker containers and Kubernetes were around – might be a good place to find inspiration. …
AI
How Facebook Might Find Nervana For Machine Learning Training
There is a rumor going around that a certain hyperscaler is going to be augmenting its GPU-based machine learning training and will be adopting Intel’s Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) for at least some of its workloads. …
Connect
How To Benefit From Facebook’s New Network Fabric
In the modern distributed computing world, which is getting ever more disaggregated and some might say discombobulated, as every day passes, the architecture of the network in the datacenter is arguably the most important factor in determining if applications will perform well or not. …
AI
Inside Facebook’s Future Machine Learning Platforms
The hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world build things that often look and feel like supercomputers if you squint your eyes a little, but if you look closely, you can often see some pretty big differences. …
Cloud
The Microserver, Redux And Reconsidered
If there is one rule of computing, is that it gets increasingly more expensive and more difficult to scale up performance within a single device or a single server node. …
AI
Facebook Sounds Opening Bell for AI Inference Hardware Makers
Gentlemen (and women), start your inference engines.
One of the world’s largest buyers of systems is entering evaluation mode for deep learning accelerators to speed services based on trained models. …
AI
Machine Learning Drives Changing Disaster Recovery At Facebook
Hyperscalers have billions of users who get access to their services for free, but the funny thing is that these users act like they are paying for it and expect for these services to be always available, no excuses. …
AI
Facebook’s Expanding Machine Learning Infrastructure
Here at The Next Platform, we tend to keep a close eye on how the major hyperscalers evolve their infrastructure to support massive scale and evermore complex workloads. …
Connect
Lessons Learned From Facebook’s Split Network Backbone
Distributed applications, whether they are containerized or not, have a lot of benefits when it comes to modularity and scale. …