Pragmatic Category Theory | Part 3: Associativity

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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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Architecture & Functional Requirements

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 10, 2010

In previous posts (here and here) I downplayed the importance of functional requirements (vs. quality attributes) on the architecture. Nevertheless, the functional requirements do have a…

Utility Trees – Hatching quality attributes

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 10, 2010

In the previous post about SAF, I introduced the concept of quality attributes. I wrote that using a “utility tree” approach is a very good way…

Quality Attributes – Introduction

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 10, 2010

“Quality Attributes” is the third and last of the set-up steps of the SPAMMED Architecture Framework (SAF) (the former ones being mapping stakeholders and their…

P is for Principles (and Guidelines and Constraints…) – Iteration II

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 10, 2010

This is part II of P is for Principles (and Guidelines and Constraints…) – Iteration I In the previous entry I’ve said that it is helpful…

P is for Principles (and Guidelines and Constraints…) – Iteration I

Published by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 10, 2010

Whenever you start a new project, even if you think you start for scratch – you don’t really start from scratch. You always bring your…