I love speculative fiction! I've been more interested in it ever since I started reading Ted Chiang - he also has great speculative short story collections like Stories of your life (which arrival was based on)
I'll be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. I love thinking about computer science problems at scale. At my previous internship at Adobe, I designed, documented, and deployed an end-to-end pipeline to easily train and and run inference on thousands of generative fine-tune models.
I'll be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. I love thinking about computer science problems at scale. At my previous internship at Adobe, I designed, documented, and deployed an end-to-end pipeline to easily train and and run inference on thousands of generative fine-tune models.
The reason services like AWS or Azure are distributed is so that your resources are not concentrated which helps with fault tolerance. If your datacenter goes down, your whole service goes down. Also as was mentioned in other comments, asynchrony also applies in the same datacenter.
That’s what insurance is for. Far less expensive than maintaining fault tolerance at the current scale. If there were a fire or something (like Google’s recent explosion in France from an overflowing toilet), we’d lose at least several minutes of data, and be able to boot up in a cloud with degraded capabilities within ten minutes or so. Not too worried about it.
I doubt it's adobe flexing its muscle, afaik, the DOJ is still looking into the Adobe/Figma merger. Currently Figma and Adobe are operating independently.
One under-appreciated effect of the announcement last year has been the attention and resources that have been directed toward Figma's upstart, open-source competitor Penpot. I tried Penpot back in the fall, and while it was impressive for an open-source tool, I definitely didn't see it challenging Figma anytime soon.
Fast-forward nine months, and Penpot has a boatload of new features as well as its own conference coming up in a few days. I tried it again recently, and it had come much further than I expected: not only have they implemented auto-layout (Figma's original killer feature, in my view), but with the added benefit of wrapping auto-layouts. They even announced a new roadmap item of grid auto-layout.
I loaded up a tutorial file and my enthusiasm was dampened a bit seeing how a complex document impacted performance – Penpot still has a long ways to go to match Figma there – but as a viable Figma competitor, I think Penpot might actually have a chance now. It's telling that even as Figma races ahead with this new release, there is one feature (auto-layout wrap) that Penpot got to first.
The funny thing would be if Penpot's rise, spurred by the threat of Adobe dominance, actually results in regulators giving Adobe the green light to complete its acquisition of Figma. Still, if this market becomes a healthy competition like Blender / Maya, everyone will win.
