Category: Ultra Large Scale Systems
Kubernetes (K8S) everywhere, but how?
In the last months, nearly everybody has been talking about Kubernetes. It’s incredible! This semester the Stuttgart Media University even held a training course on this topic. For DevOps or “cloud-computing specialist” mastering Kubernetes and the concepts around it is becoming more and more important.
Large Scale Deployment for Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow Serving
Introduction “How do you turn a trained model into a product, that will bring value to your enterprise?” In recent years, serving has become a hot topic in machine learning. With the ongoing success of deep neural networks, there is a growing demand for solutions that address the increasing complexity of inference at scale. This…
The Renaissance of column stores
While attending the lecture ‘Ultra Large Scale Systems’ I got introduced into the quite intriguing topic of high-performance data storage systems. One subject which caught my special attention were column-oriented database management systems (column stores) about which I decided to give a presentation. Being quite lengthy and intricate, I realized that the presentation left my…
Queueing Theory and Practice – OR: Crash Course in Queueing
What this blog entry is about The entry bases on the paper “The Essential Guide to Queueing Theory” written by Baron Schwartz at the company VividCortex which develops database monitoring tools.The paper provides a somewhat opinion-oriented overview on Queueing Theory in a relatively well understandable design. It tries to make many relations to every day…
End-to-end Monitoring of Modern Cloud Applications
During the last semester and as part of my Master’s thesis, I worked at an automotive company on the development of a vehicle connectivity platform. Within my team I was assigned the task of monitoring, which turned out to be a lot more interesting but at the same time way more complex than I expected.…
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Building a fully scalable architecture with AWS
What I learned in building the StateOfVeganism ? By now, we all know that news and media shape our viewson these discussed topics. Of course, this is different from person to person. Some might be influenced a little more than others, but there always is some opinion communicated. Considering this, it would be really interesting…
More is always better: building a cluster with Pies
So you have written the uber-pro-web-application with a bazillion of active users. But your requests start to get out of hand and the Raspberry Pi under your desk can’t handle all the pressure on its own. Finally, the time for rapid expansion has come! If you have already containerized your application, the step towards clustering your…
Intel NUC and the quest for the holy boot target
Do you already have found time to recover from fighting the demons which made it hard to get a Docker cluster up and running on Raspberry Pis? Hopefully – because the next crusade lies ahead of us! So let’s dive into the next adventure, watching our heroes – three greenhorn students – on their search for their Intel NUC’s missing…
Docker- dive into its foundations
Docker has gained a lot of attention over the past several years. But not only because of its cool logo or it being the top buzzword of managers, but also because of its useful features. We talked about Docker quite a bit without really understanding why it’s so great to use. So we decided to take a closer look on…