Tracing your functions
Note: this is mostly just for proof of concept – not necessarily something you want to do in a production system, but might be useful in a staging/test environment. Functions in a Serverless...
View ArticleDancing links, algorithm X and the n-queens puzzle
Donald Knuth’s 24th annual Christmas lecture inspired me to implement algorithm X using dancing links myself. To demonstrate how this algorithms works, I choose the n-queens puzzle. This problem has...
View ArticleAI reasoning & planning
With the rise of faster compute hardware and acceleration technologies that drove Deep Learning, it is arguable that the AI winters are over. However Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not all about...
View ArticleAI planning algorithms in Rust
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic, although it seams that the focus is on Neural Networks & Deep Learning on the software/algorithmic side, while GPUs/TPUs are the #1 topic for hardware....
View ArticleWrite your functions in Rust – with Azure & Rocket
Rust is certainly one of the hot programming languages right now. Besides the cool feature set the language offers, companies – like Microsoft, Intel, Google, AWS, Facebook, etc. – embrace it:...
View ArticleIntent Driven Orchestration
So let’s start with a bolt statement: the introduction of Microservices/functions and Serverless deployment styles for cloud-native applications has triggered a need to shift the orchestration...
View ArticleYour personal AI LLM based agent
Trevor Noah made an interesting comment in one of hit recent podcast: You know, the new workforce becomes one where your GPT is almost your resume. Your GPT is almost more valuable than you are in a...
View ArticleSystem Effectiveness
In the world of distributed systems, performance has traditionally been the primary measure of success. Engineers have focused on optimizing for latency, throughput, reliability and scalability,...
View ArticlePower efficiency: throttling for Sustainability
The rise of AI applications has brought us soaring power demands and strains on the environment. Google reported a 13% emission increase thanks to AI, their footprint is huge, some power grids are...
View ArticlePreference-driven systems: a practical bridge to intent-driven systems
Intent-driven orchestration has emerged as a effective model for managing increasingly complex, distributed systems. Rather than prescribing how infrastructure should behave, intent allows users to...
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