SYSTEMS

Spanner’s Clock System Achieves Consistency with Low Latency

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25 April 2025 7h13

I should also add there was a nice paper published about the clock system that Spanner uses to achieve some of its consistency properties with low latency:

Spanner: The Story Behind Google’s Global Data Storage Name

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25 April 2025 5h53

Fun fact: I helped pick the name Spanner because it would "span" all of our data centers with a single storage system. Later, my British colleagues threw a wrench into my thinking by pointing out that to them, a spanner was, well, a wrench. Leading to this meaning today:

Spanner Wins ACM SIGMOD Systems Award for Global Scale

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25 April 2025 5h48

Great to see Spanner recognized with this year's ACM SIGMOD Systems Award "for reimagining relational data management to enable serializability with external consistency at global scale". I was fortunate to be able to work on the first versions of Spanner with awesome colleagues

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DeepMind’s Virtual Fruit Fly Simulation Advances AI Research

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24 April 2025 22h18

Virtual fruit fly simulation to conquer the world, and beyond.

via @GoogleDeepMind https://t.co/cUQzQkcsBM
— Linus ✦ Ekenstam (@LinusEkenstam) 24 avril 2025

Virtual fruit fly simulation to conquer the world, and beyond. via @GoogleDeepMind

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Business Recovery Strategies During Critical System Disruptions

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24 April 2025 17h12

How Quickly Can Your Business Recover When It Matters Most?

It is critical that businesses can achieve minimum viability during times of crisis whether it’s a ransomware attack, data breach, or system outage.

In moments of disruption, it’s essential to ask the right questions… pic.twitter.com/gY6QVbBXG8
— Helen Yu (@YuHelenYu) 24 avril 2025

How Quickly Can Your Business Recover When It Matters Most? It is critical that businesses can achieve minimum viability during times of crisis whether it’s a ransomware attack, data breach, or system outage. In moments of disruption, it’s essential to ask the right questions

Handling Dynamic Document Updates in AI Retrieval Systems

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24 April 2025 15h38

For (2), documents that change and where you want the updates to be reflected quickly in the retrieval system can be challenging. You usually end up building a "fresh" layer of your system that has very different data structures that can handle updates/insertions, but that is

Knowledge Graphs Infrastructure Impact Web Corpus Scale

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24 April 2025 15h34

For (1), knowledge graphs help with lots of higher level kind of things, search presentation aspects, etc., but from an infrastructure perspective, they don't have a huge effect because they just aren't very large relative to the web corpus.

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NVIDIA Bets Big on Open Source AI Agents for Enterprise Dominance

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24 April 2025 10h45

NVIDIA PARIE GROS SUR LES AGENTS IA OPEN SOURCE POUR DOMINER LA TECH D’ENTREPRISE Nvidia vient de lancer une nouvelle plateforme appelée NeMo Microservices, conçue pour aider les entreprises à créer leurs propres agents IA. La société mise sur des modèles open source,