architecture

NVIDIA’s newest GPU platform is the Blackwell (Figure A), which companies including AWS, Microsoft and Google plan to adopt for generative AI and other modern computing tasks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced during the keynote at the NVIDIA GTC conference on March 18 in San Jose, California. Figure A The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Image: NVIDIA Blackwell-based products will enter the market from NVIDIA partners worldwide in late 2024. Huang announced a long lineup of additional technologies and services…

Nvidia We finally have our first taste of Nvidia’s next generation of GPUs, named Blackwell. Sure, they’re built for enterprises, and no, they won’t run Cyberpunk 2077 (at least not officially). But this is the first look we’ve have at what Nvidia is cooking up for its RTX 50-series GPUs, which are rumored to launched sometime in the next year. The GPU we have today is the B200 — Blackwell 200, if you can spot it — that comes packed with 208 billion transistors. The architecture is built on TSMC’s 4NP node, which is…

Incorporating AI into API and microservice architecture design for the Cloud can bring numerous benefits. Here are some key aspects where AI can drive improvements in architecture design: Intelligent planning: AI can assist in designing the architecture by analyzing requirements, performance metrics, and best practices to recommend optimal structures for APIs and microservices. Automated scaling: AI can monitor usage patterns and automatically scale microservices to meet varying demands, ensuring efficient resource…

Software architecture has come a long way since its inception. In the early days, systems were simple and programmers often hardcoded solutions to specific problems. As systems grew in complexity and size, this approach became unmanageable. We saw the emergence of structured programming, object-oriented programming, and most recently service-oriented and microservice architectures. Parallel to this, artificial intelligence (AI) has been growing and advancing at a rapid pace. AI and Machine Learning (ML) techniques are now…

We need to make the exterior parts of buildings that people focus on more interesting, so that people want to protect rather than replace them. But most people aren’t architects or city planners—they can’t change the designs of what’s being made.Indeed, we have a public who feel utterly powerless, and a construction industry that talks to itself but not the public. That needs to change. We have public conversations about whether we should fly on holiday and use the carbon to go to Malaga or wherever, but there’s no…

Two firms developing a RiNo apartment building with a greenery-filled “canyon” now own an adjacent property. The 3911 and 3963 Walnut St. parcels, which combined are 0.93 acres, sold last week to Washington D.C.-based Uplands Real Estate Partners and Denver-based Wynne Yasmer Real Estate, operating as 40th & Walnut Project LLC. The properties have a handful of industrial buildings on them. The sale price was $9 million, or $221 a square foot. Uplands and Wynne Yasmer submitted development plans for the site in early…

Estimating workloads is crucial in mastering software development. This can be achieved either as an ongoing development part of agile teams or in response to tenders as a cost estimate before migration, among other ways. The team responsible for producing the estimate regularly encounters a considerable workload, which can lead to significant time consumption if the costing is not conducted using the correct methodology. The measurement figures generated may significantly differ based on the efficiency of the technique…

In the realm of modern software development and IT infrastructure, the amalgamation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Microservice Architecture has sparked a revolution, promising a new era of scalability, flexibility, and efficiency. This blog delves into the synergistic relationship between AI and microservices, exploring whether they indeed constitute a perfect match for businesses and developers looking to harness the full potential of both worlds. The Rise of Microservices Microservice architecture, characterized…

Surprise! This is a bonus blog post for the AI for Web Devs series I recently wrapped up. If you haven’t read that series yet, I’d encourage you to check it out. This post will look at the existing project architecture and ways we can improve it for both application developers and the end user. I’ll be discussing some general concepts, and using specific Akamai products in my examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvXJmiQY2XkBasic Application Architecture The existing application is pretty basic. A user submits two…

In the mid-1990s, soon after I was hired by the town of Davidson, N.C., as its first full-time town planner, I attended a joint public meeting in the neighboring town of Cornelius. Davidson was at odds with the county’s proposed thoroughfare plan. The plan reflected the type of misguided investment that communities have been making for decades, furthering sprawl under the guise of development. Davidson city officials hired me because its people foresaw that a proliferation of subdivisions and shopping centers would…