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SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services

Value-Added Services (VAS) centralize business logic to replace duplicate BFF code, unifying aggregate synthesis and authorization across tracks and playlists through centralized orchestration and API-driven integration.

8/20/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 2: Value-Added Services

Examining the evolution of service architecture at SoundCloud with a focus on value-added services.

8/20/2021
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Downstream Evaluations of Rotary Position Embeddings

Comparing Rotary Position Embeddings with GPT-style learned position embeddings in downstream evaluations.

8/16/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

OpenAI Codex

Exploring the capabilities of OpenAI Codex in automation and natural language processing

8/10/2021
Jane StreetJane Street

What the interns have wrought, 2021 edition

Internship season at Jane Street in 2021, including in-person interactions and insights into the company's operations.

8/9/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Building architectures that can handle the world’s data

Building a general-purpose architecture, Perceiver IO, that can handle diverse inputs and produce a wide variety of outputs, enabling the processing of various types of data.

8/3/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Building architectures that can handle the world’s data

Exploring a general and versatile architecture that can handle different types of data to solve complex problems in AI systems.

8/3/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends

Explains SoundCloud's evolution from monolithic APIs to microservices using Backends for Frontends (BFF) with dedicated API gateways per client to boost autonomy, resilience, and development speed while outlining key tradeoffs.

7/29/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends

Explores SoundCloud's Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern and how dedicated API gateways over an evolving microservices architecture deliver autonomy, scalability, and resilience while navigating security and maintainability tradeoffs.

7/29/2021
SoundCloudSoundCloud

Service Architecture at SoundCloud — Part 1: Backends for Frontends

Exploring the evolution of service architecture at SoundCloud with a focus on backends for frontends.

7/29/2021
OpenAIOpenAI

Introducing Triton: Open-source GPU programming for neural networks

Explore the latest in open-source GPU programming for neural networks with Triton.

7/28/2021
Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind

Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play

Generally capable agents are trained to play a variety of games and tasks without human interaction data, marking an important step toward more adaptive AI agents.

7/27/2021