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Acceptable for Inference

Acceptable for Inference

Google tested its TPUs for orbit and the memory came back with uncorrectable bit flips at a rate it called likely acceptable for inference. Read that phrase again. We are about to make correctness a per-workload dial set partly by radiation, and the model will not tell you which setting it used.

Unlocking Reliability: Why Data Pipelines Need Declarative Deployment & GitOps

Unlocking Reliability: Why Data Pipelines Need Declarative Deployment & GitOps You know the feeling: your data pipeline worked perfectly last week, and now it's throwing cryptic errors. The logs don't help. The documentation is outdated. Nobody's sure who last touched the transformation logic or

Orchestration Allows Microservices to Be Unreliable (That's a Good Thing)

Orchestration Allows Microservices to Be Unreliable (And That's a Good Thing) One of the first features I wanted to build for Kubernetes was service workflows: Service A starts, then B, then C. If B fails, A should know, and C shouldn't panic. Services need to know