Next platform for brain-inspired computing

Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is one domain where human brains continue to dominate: energy efficiency.

Enhancing Netflix Reliability with Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding

Applying Quality of Service techniques at the application level Anirudh Mendiratta, Kevin Wang, Joey Lynch, Javier Fernandez-Ivern, Benjamin Fedorka Introduction In November 2020, we introduced the concept of prioritized load shedding at the API gateway level in our blog post, Keeping Netflix Reliable Using Prioritized Load Shedding. Today, we’re excited to dive deeper into how we’ve …

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AI21 Labs Jamba-Instruct model is now available in Amazon Bedrock

We are excited to announce the availability of the Jamba-Instruct large language model (LLM) in Amazon Bedrock. Jamba-Instruct is built by AI21 Labs, and most notably supports a 256,000-token context window, making it especially useful for processing large documents and complex Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. What is Jamba-Instruct Jamba-Instruct is an instruction-tuned version of …

Free to be SRE — how to use generative AI to code, test and troubleshoot your systems

Are you an SRE (or SysAdmin, DevOps Engineer or Systems Architect?) grappling with the ever-growing complexity of modern systems? Generative AI, including Google’s Gemini for developers, offers a toolkit that can help streamline your operational tasks and boost efficiency. To help you get started, here’s a curated list of resources that will help you gain …

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Implement exact match with Amazon Lex QnAIntent

This post is a continuation of Creating Natural Conversations with Amazon Lex QnAIntent and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base. In summary, we explored new capabilities available through Amazon Lex QnAIntent, powered by Amazon Bedrock, that enable you to harness natural language understanding and your own knowledge repositories to provide real-time, conversational experiences. In many cases, Amazon …

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Product Reliability Incident Management at Palantir

Insights from Product Reliability Engineers Intro Palantir’s platforms (AIP, Foundry, Gotham, Apollo) underpin mission-critical workflows throughout the world, whether it’s facilitating the resettling of over 100,000 refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine or reducing waiting times for life-saving cancer care. The Product Reliability Incident Management team’s core mandate is to address the highest-priority issues across …

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Manage Amazon SageMaker JumpStart foundation model access with private hubs

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart is a machine learning (ML) hub offering pre-trained models and pre-built solutions. It provides access to hundreds of foundation models (FMs). A private hub is a feature in SageMaker JumpStart that allows an organization to share their models and notebooks so as to centralize model artifacts, facilitate discoverability, and increase the reuse …

Comparative Analysis of Personalized Voice Activity Detection Systems: Assessing Real-World Effectiveness

Voice activity detection (VAD) is a critical component in various applications such as speech recognition, speaker identification, and hands-free communication systems. With the increasing demand for personalized and context-aware technologies, the need for effective personalized VAD systems has become paramount. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of Personalized Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) systems …

A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale. Netflix is not …

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Imperva optimizes SQL generation from natural language using Amazon Bedrock

This is a guest post co-written with Ori Nakar from Imperva. Imperva Cloud WAF protects hundreds of thousands of websites against cyber threats and blocks billions of security events every day. Counters and insights based on security events are calculated daily and used by users from multiple departments. Millions of counters are added daily, together …