Architect’s Guide to a Reference Architecture for an AI/ML Datalake

Architect’s Guide to a Reference Architecture for an AI/ML Datalake

An abbreviated version of this post appeared on The New Stack on March 19th, 2024. In enterprise artificial intelligence, there are two main types of models: discriminative and generative. Discriminative models are used to classify or predict data, while generative models are used to create new data. Even though Generative AI has dominated the news of late, organizations are still

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MinIO Enterprise Cache: A Distributed DRAM Cache for Ultra-Performance

MinIO Enterprise Cache: A Distributed DRAM Cache for Ultra-Performance

As the computing world has evolved and the price of DRAM has plummeted, we find that server configurations often come with 500GB or more of DRAM. When you are dealing with larger deployments, even those with ultra-dense NVMe drives, the number of servers multiplied by the DRAM on those servers can quickly add up – often to several TBs. That DRAM

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The Strengths, Weaknesses and Dangers of LLMs

The Strengths, Weaknesses and Dangers of LLMs

Much has been said lately about the wonders of Large Language Models (LLMs). Most of these accolades are deserved. Ask ChatGPT to describe the General Theory of Relativity and you will get a very good (and accurate) answer. However, at the end of the day ChatGPT is still a computer program (as are all other LLMs) that is blindly executing

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