Topic: tpu
From Monoliths to Microservices to AI-Native: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems
The architectural patterns that powered the microservices revolution are showing their age. When my peers and I began designing distributed systems for companies like Cisco, Amazon, and Palo Alto Networks, we optimized for stateless, horizontally scalable services with predictable resource consumption. AI workloads follow a different set of rules. Transformer architectures demand frequent synchronization of … continue reading
Google’s TPUs and GPUs now available in beta
Google announced that Cloud TPUs and GPU support for Google Kubernetes Engine are now in beta as part of a series of updates for the Google Cloud Platform. The Google-designed Cloud TPUs, built on four custom ASICs and with “up to 180 teraflops of floating-point performance and 64 GB of high-bandwidth memory onto a single … continue reading
