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A Replacement for BERT

Finally, a Replacement for BERT TL;DR This blog post introduces ModernBERT, a family of state-of-the-art encoder-only models representing improvements over older generation encoders across the board, with a 8192 sequence length, better downstream performance and much faster processing. ModernBERT is available as a slot-in replacement for any BERT-like models, with both a base (139M params) and large (395M params) model size. ModernBERT will...
BlackSheep: Fast ASGI web framework for Python

BlackSheep is an asynchronous web framework to build event based web applications with Python. It is inspired by Flask, ASP.NET Core, and the work by Yury Selivanov. from datetime import datetime from blacksheep import Application, get app = Application() @get("/") async def home(): return f"Hello, World! {datetime.utcnow().isoformat()}" Getting started using the CLI ✨ BlackSheep offers a CLI to bootstrap new projects rapidly. To try it, first install the blacksheep-cli...
Comparing Rust Database Crates

This page aims to compare Diesel with various other crates that allow to connect to relational databases. We will cover the following crates: As part of this comparison we will try to cover the following topics: Stability, which covers what stability guarantees are provided by the corresponding crates Safety guarantees, which covers what is checked by a specific crate at compile time Flexibility, which covers...
Query 1B Rows in PostgreSQL >25x Faster with Squirrels!

The One Billion Row Challenge has been making waves in the data engineering community lately. Originally created to test CSV parsing performance, the challenge involves processing a file containing 1 billion weather measurements to calculate basic temperature statistics for each city. In this post, I'll tackle a variation of this challenge using PostgreSQL and demonstrate how to achieve dramatic performance...
Optimize Amazon RDS performance with io2 Block Express storage for production workloads

In March 2024, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) announced the availability of Provisioned IOPS (input/output operations per second) io2 Block Express volumes for database engines. Choosing the right storage configuration that meets performance requirements is a common challenge when creating and managing database instances. With io2 Block Express volumes, your database workloads benefit from consistent sub-millisecond latency, enhanced durability...

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Software architecture workshop (slides)

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on November 29, 2023

The title says it all – These are slides from a session I was working on to explain the basics of software architecture based on…

pandas on spark apply_batch/transform_batch broken? (tl;dr; No – but it isn’t well documented)

pandas on spark apply_batch/transform_batch broken? (tl;dr; No – but it isn’t well documented)

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on October 16, 2022

Using pypark’s pandas integration via apply_batch and transform_batch is very powerful but lacking documentation can cause hard to trace bugs – hopefully my experience (below)…

Intro to Apache Spark (slides)

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on December 16, 2020

I gave a general overview of Apache Spark to our R&D teams. You can find the slides below

Where is Apache Spark heading?

Where is Apache Spark heading?

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on December 4, 2020

I watched (COVID19-era version of “attended”) the latest spark Summit and in one of the keynotes Reynold Xin from Databricks, presented the following two images…

Big data isn’t – well, almost

Big data isn’t – well, almost

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on March 23, 2019

Back in ancient history (2004) Google’s Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat presented their innovative idea for dealing with huge data sets – a novel idea…