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Tag: storage efficiency

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…

  • Hacker News: European Cloud Computing Platforms

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    Source URL: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-platforms Source: Hacker News Title: European Cloud Computing Platforms Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Exoscale, a cloud computing platform based in Switzerland, emphasizing its various services such as virtual servers, object storage, and managed databases. Notably, it highlights API key permission capabilities, appealing to professionals interested…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/gemini-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Feedly Summary: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Gemini just released their new text embedding model, with the snappy name gemini-embedding-exp-03-07. It supports 8,000 input tokens – up from 3,000 – and outputs vectors that are a lot larger…

  • Hacker News: voyage-code-3

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    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: voyage-code-3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents voyage-code-3, a new embedding model optimized for code retrieval that significantly outperforms existing models in both performance and cost-efficiency. The introduction of Matryoshka learning and advanced quantization techniques allows for reduced storage requirements without compromising…

  • Cloud Blog: Instant snapshots: protect Compute Engine workloads from errors and corruption

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-compute-engine-instant-snapshots/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Instant snapshots: protect Compute Engine workloads from errors and corruption Feedly Summary: Imagine you’re an application administrator performing an application upgrade within  a one-hour maintenance window, when all of a sudden the upgrade fails. You now want to initiate your rollback procedures. The normal course of action in…