Cloud-Native

We sold out the August edition of the Regional Kubernetes & Cloud Native Berlin meetup: 45 seats, gone. Rick took the initiative to reboot the meetup, and Schwarz Digits opened its office on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße to us. The room was full from doors at 17:00 to the last conversation winding down around 21:00. Two talks, one break, no filler. Here’s what happened. From Von Neumann to Transformers Dr. Stefan Schimanski (NVIDIA) and Sergiusz Urbaniak (Defense Unicorns) opened with “From Von Neumann to Transformers: An Engineer’s Guide to What’s Actually Inside an LLM.” The title mentions the IAS machine, but this was not a talk about hardware. It was a two-hour walkthrough of how LLMs actually work: tokenization, embeddings, attention, feed-forward layers, and how information flows through the model as a new kind of compute architecture. ...

What is Prometheus If you’re an engineer working with Cloud technologies, chances are that you’ve already heard of Prometheus Prometheus is an Open Source monitoring tool. Its development started at SoundCloud and it has now evolved into being a go-to choice for metrics collection. I often relate its rise in popularity to its simple, gitops friendly configuration management, simple setup and modularity. Prometheus does a few things and does it well. While doing this, it does have some nice modularity as you can mix and match it with other tooling such as Grafana and Alertmanager. ...