Introducing Impressions at Netflix

Part 1: Creating the Source of Truth for Impressions By: Tulika Bhatt Imagine scrolling through Netflix, where each movie poster or promotional banner competes for your attention. Every image you hover over isn’t just a visual placeholder; it’s a critical data point that fuels our sophisticated personalization engine. At Netflix, we call these images ‘impressions,’ and …

With MultiKueue, grab GPUs for your GKE cluster, wherever they may be

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are experiencing explosive growth, powering applications from machine translation to artistic creation. These technologies rely on intensive computations that require specialized hardware resources, like GPUs. But access to GPUs can be challenging, both in terms of availability and cost. For Google Cloud users, the introduction of Dynamic …

Monthly Promotion Megathread – February 2025

Howdy, I was a two weeks late to creating this one and take responsibility for this. I apologize to those who utilize this thread monthly. Anyhow, we understand that some websites/resources can be incredibly useful for those who may have less technical experience, time, or resources but still want to participate in the broader community. …

ARMOR: Egocentric Perception for Humanoid Robot Collision Avoidance and Motion Planning

Humanoid robots have significant gaps in their sensing and perception, making it hard to perform motion planning in dense environments. To address this, we introduce ARMOR, a novel egocentric perception system that integrates both hardware and software, specifically incorporating wearable-like depth sensors for humanoid robots. Our distributed perception approach enhances the robot’s spatial awareness, and …

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Build a dynamic, role-based AI agent using Amazon Bedrock inline agents

AI agents continue to gain momentum, as businesses use the power of generative AI to reinvent customer experiences and automate complex workflows. We are seeing Amazon Bedrock Agents applied in investment research, insurance claims processing, root cause analysis, advertising campaigns, and much more. Agents use the reasoning capability of foundation models (FMs) to break down …

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Operationalizing generative AI apps with Apigee

Generative AI is now well  beyond the hype and into the realm of practical application. But while organizations are eager to build enterprise-ready gen AI solutions on top of large language models (LLMs), they face challenges in managing, securing, and scaling these deployments, especially when it comes to APIs. As part of the platform team, …