by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 16, 2024 | Cloud
Scared of flying but don’t think twice about a lengthy road trip? Consider this: NOVA reports that your odds of a fatal car crash are 1 in 5000, but the chance of perishing in a plane is just 1 in 11 million. Despite air travel being 2,200 times safer than a car, many...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 16, 2024 | Cloud
This past week I spent time with some IT executives at a Fortune 500 company. Despite years of big spending on AWS, the company made a commitment years ago to switch to Microsoft Azure. Today they’re still on AWS… and Azure… and private data centers. Our conversation...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 16, 2024 | Cloud
Amazon Web Services is transferring its OpenSearch open-source project to the Linux Foundation, which has launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation to support the project and its search and analytics software. The announcement was made September 16. An open-source...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 13, 2024 | Cloud
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company, can be...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 13, 2024 | Cloud
This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module makes working with named...
