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Some GTC24 Highlights

Kasia Hilborne — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:21:44 +0000

Reporting from the GTC24 virtual event, this summary highlights announcements and insights shared by industry leaders.

NVIDIA Announcements:

A snapshot of the Day 1 Keynote announcement by NVIDIA CEO Jansen Huang. Or you can watch the Keynote here.

Introduction of Blackwell Chip: Nvidia introduced the Blackwell chip, a successor to the Hopper chip, which is twice as fast and offers a scalable platform up to 576 GPUs.
Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer: DGX SuperPOD: Nvidia unveiled the DGX SuperPOD, a more powerful artificial intelligence supercomputer, equipped with Grace Blackwell super chips. It boasts 11.5 exaflops of AI supercomputing power with FP4 precision and 240 terabytes of memory capacity.
Introduction of Nvidia Inference Microservice (NIM): Nvidia introduced NIM, a new cloud-based software service revolutionizing software building and coding processes. NIMs assemble AI without requiring any coding, and they can be accessed online from anywhere in the world.
Nvidia Quantum Cloud: Based on Nvidia’s CUDA-Q platform, Quantum Cloud offers microservices for building and testing quantum algorithms and applications in the cloud.
Robotics Revolution with 'Project GROOT': Nvidia announced 'Project GROOT,' a sensory robotics processing chip enabling robots to learn and mimic human movements and speech. It promises advancements in various applications such as autonomous driving vehicles, robot factory workers, and interactive food stalls.
Nvidia's Vision for Creating a Digital World: Earth-2 and Digital Twins: Nvidia is leveraging big data processing capabilities to create digital twins of real-life objects, exemplified by "Earth-2," a digital model of the planet. Earth-2 aims to enhance weather predictions and mitigate the effects of natural disasters through more accurate modelling.
cuQPC: Nvidia's new library accelerates post-quantum cryptography algorithms, achieving significant speed improvements compared to CPUs.

Vendors/Partners News:

DDN (Data Direct Networks) announced significant advancements at NVIDIA GTC, offering attendees opportunities to explore HPC and AI initiatives for 2024. The summit will cover 10X GPU acceleration, scalable solutions for large data environments, and accelerated computing solutions integrated with NVIDIA technologies. DDN emphasizes simplicity, scalability, and unparalleled ROI in their storage solutions, boasting a 40% reduction in file access time, 100% GPU utilization, and over 20 years of experience in data storage and management.(SOURCE: DDN PR)
Domino Data Labs, a leader in AI operationalization, emphasises its commitment to showcasing the latest advancements in operationalizing AI across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. Domino's unified data science platform supports technologies such as deep learning, generative AI, computer vision, and IoT, enabling enterprises to leverage these cutting-edge tools effectively.
Run:ai announced its certification for the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, a milestone in enabling scalable AI computing and widening its accessibility within enterprises. This collaboration with NVIDIA integrates advanced workload management into the DGX SuperPOD, simplifying AI project execution and accommodating emerging technologies like generative AI. Run:ai's dedication to democratizing AI technology marks a significant advancement in addressing industry challenges.(source: Run:ai PR)
Vultr announces the launch of Vultr Cloud Inference, a serverless platform designed to streamline AI model deployment. This innovative solution simplifies integration and migration processes, reducing infrastructure complexity and enabling businesses to prioritize innovation. With automated scaling, resource utilization is optimized, resulting in cost savings and reduced environmental impact. Users can benefit from private, dedicated computing resources for enhanced security and performance. Early access opportunities are available for NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper™ Superchips, facilitating the initiation of your worldwide inference journey. (source: Forbes)

Some GTC24 highlights from day-1, including NVIDIA's unveiling of the Blackwell Chip and the DGX SuperPOD, alongside announcements from industry leaders like DDN, Domino Data Labs, Run:ai and Vultr.

Mini Resources List for Ruby on Rails

Kasia Hilborne — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:44:51 +0000

Ruby on Rails (RoR) Overview:

Rails is one of the most popular open-source web application frameworks written in Ruby under the MIT License. It was released in 2005 and has since been used across all types of industries. It focuses on empowering developers and startups. With the support of a strong developer community, Ruby on Rails is used by companies such as Airbnb, Shopify, GitHub, Joyn, Cloud 66, Gap Intelligence, Hulu, Crunchbase, PeopleForce, The StoryGraph, Basecamp, and more.

Ruby was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto in the mid-1990s.
Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson “DHH” in 2003.
Rails Official Website

Resources:

Ruby On Rails Tutorials:

RailsGuide - Ruby On Rails is an official guide.
API Ruby on Rails - Rails API documentation.
Real Scale - A guide for scaling cloud-native web applications.
Rails Girls Guides - these guides are built to provide tools and a community for women to understand the technology and how to build their ideas.

Training:

GoRails - learn about Rails.
DriftingRuby - online training with video examples.
Skillcombo - a platform to search and compare educational courses.

Cheat sheets:

GitHub - Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet.
GitHub - Awesome Rails.
GitHub - awesome-ruby.
GitHub - awesome-ruby.
GitHub - ruby-bookmarks.
Pinterest - Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet.
OpenSource Agenda - Hotwire in Action.

Community:

Ruby On Rails - meet the community and the core team.
Ruby for Good - a nonprofit dedicated to building open-source technology solutions in service of critical missions, to make the world better. + on GitHub.
Reddit - Ruby Community, Rails Community, and Ruby on Rails Community.
Mastodon: ruby.social - open-source software for running self-hosted social networking.
StackOverflow - Ruby Community and Ruby on Rails Community.
Discord - Ruby on Rails.

Newsletters:

Related newsletters:

Hotwire dev newsletter

Podcasts:

Conferences:

RailsConf - is organized by Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization since 2006, RailsConf has been the largest gathering of Rails developers in the world.
RubyConf - since 2001, RubyConf has been the main annual gathering of Rubyists from around the world.
RubyConfTH - a community-driven conference in Thailand.
Euruko - is a Ruby conference organized annually in Europe.
RailsWorld - a community conference about the Rails features and best practices.

Surveys:

Planet Argon - Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results.
Stackoverflow - Survey 2023.

Deployment Tools/ Platforms:

AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A fully managed service to deploy and manage Ruby on Rails apps on AWS.
Capistrano: An open-source deployment tool for Ruby on Rails applications.
Cloud 66: Builds, deploys, and manages all types of applications on your own cloud or server.
Dokku: A self-managed, open-source PaaS implementation.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP): provides various deployment options for Ruby on Rails, such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google App Engine.
Heroku: A cloud platform that offers deployment and scaling for Ruby on Rails applications.
Kamal open-source deployment tool on your own servers.
Render: A cloud platform that builds and runs all types of applications and websites.

Blogs:

Ruby on Rails - the official blog.
Dev.to - collections of blogs on Ruby on Rails.
Medium - Content on Ruby.
Ruby Flow - an active community of developers that focuses on how you can optimize RoR
Boring Rails - tips and articles.
Adding Super Fast Frontend Search in Rails with Lunr
Integrating Social Login in a Ruby on Rails Application
ViewComponent in the Wild I: building modern Rails frontends
Making Hotwire and Devise play nicely
Taking Rails to the next level with Hotwire
Hotwire, ViewComponents and TailwindCSS: The Ultimate Rails Stack
How to Write Fast Code in Ruby on Rails
Pros and Cons of Deploying Rails Applications Natively vs Containerized in 2024
Finding Relationships Between Ruby’s Top 100 Packages and Their Dependencies
A Deep Dive into Active Record Validations
Hanami - blog, guides, and documentation.
Authenticating Users with Google IAP in Rails
How to Support a Million Users on Your Website: A Success Story
3 ActiveRecord Mistakes That Slow Down Rails Apps: Count, Where, and Present

These Rails resources will help you to get started and engage with the Rails community. There is always something new to learn about Rails, and with time this list will be expanded.

Mini Resource List for Golang

Kasia Hilborne — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:16:06 +0000

This post includes a mini list with links to handy Golang resources.

Golang Overview:

Golang is an open source, compiled and statically typed programming language created by Google engineers in 2007. It easily cross-compiles to a variety of architectures and operating systems. Golang is incredibly lightweight and is designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software.

Examples of popular projects built with Golang: Kubernetes, Hugo, CockroachDB, Monzo Bank, and more.

Resources:

Golang Tutorials:

W3 School - Go Getting Started
Go.dev - Tutorial: Get started with Go and How to write Go Code
GitHub - Go Code Review Comments
Dave Cheney - High Performance Go and Practical Go
Calhoun.io - The Complete Guide to Learning Go
Go by Example

Training:

Gophercises - free coding exercises.
Ardan Labs - customized on site training.
Gopher Guides - in person, remote and online training.

Cheat Sheets:

GitHub - Go Cheat Sheet
Devhints.io - Go cheatsheet

Blogs:

Surveys:

Community:

Conferences:

Newsletters:

CooperPress - Golang Weekly
Libhunt - Awesome Go
Job Alerts - Golang Cafe Newsletter

Podcasts:

These Golang resources will help you to get started and to engage with the Go community. There is always something new to learn about Go, and with the time this list will be expanded.

📢 Cloud 66 Prepress v2 Release

Kasia Hilborne — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:08:09 +0000

Cloud 66 Prepress is a No Ops tool for deploying static sites. These are the changes that went out with a latest release:

More cloud providers

Prepress now supports Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Linode as well as AWS. With this wide range of cloud providers, you have more options for deploying your site as well as benefitting from lower prices for your storage and traffic.

Import from Netlify

Prepress now detects if your site uses Netlify redirect files and automatically imports all your redirect and rewrite rules into your new site, with every deployment.

LiveLogs

Requests to your Prepress sites can be monitored in real-time. LiveLogs include not just host and path, but also the visitor's IP address, ISP, country, city, browser, OS, and other user agent information with high accuracy.

Secure by default

All sites deployed with Prepress are now protected by SSL certificates from day one, including full and simple support for custom domains.

More frameworks

Prepress now supports more frameworks: Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js, Vue.js, Nuxt.js, Svelte, Middleman, and Docusaurus v1 and v2 and we will be adding even more soon.

Prepress Webflow

Webflow is a completely new way to control traffic before it reaches your site.

Using Webflow rules, you can not only redirect and rewrite traffic based on paths or domains but also based on the country of origin, type of OS or browser, or even the internet service provider that your visitors use! With Webflow, you can send traffic from Italy to an Italian version of your site, traffic from mobile devices to a mobile-friendly site, and traffic from Apple computers to a version of the site that's tailored for Apple OS X.

Here are some examples:

 Block {
   when: origin.country_code == "GB" ||
   inRange(origin.ip, "86.10.40.0/24") ||
   request.user_agent.client.family == "Chrome",
   message: "Use a different browser when connecting from the UK",
 }

 Redirect {
   from: "^/",
   to: "/mobile/apple/",
   with: permanent,
   when: request.user_agent.os.family == "iOS",
 }

Webflow uses Common Expression Language (CEL) to provide maximum flexibility to control the flow of traffic to your websites. By building Webflow on top of CEL, we have built the foundation of many more great features to come this year.

Note: Help doc: Using Webflow rules to route traffic

Pricing 🎉🎉🎉

Static sites are important, but shouldn't break the bank. You shouldn't be paying more, just because you want your marketing team to update your site. That's why Prepress pricing is simple and affordable. Each Prepress site costs $1.99 per month + $0.095 per GB of outbound traffic, that's it!

Deploy Happy!

🥁Cloud 66 Prepress - Build and deploy Jamstack sites on your own cloud!

Kasia Hilborne — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:07:06 +0000

We are happy to announce a release of a new product at Cloud 66, called Cloud 66 Prepress.

Prepress allows you to benefit from the power of the Jamstack without being locked into a proprietary infrastructure solution. Your application is hosted on your own object storage via your own cloud account. We took the advantage of Cloud 66's existing DevOps tools and features, extending them to static site builders.

Prepress generates static web sites (Jamstack) based on the automatically detected framework with full logs and deploys them to your own cloud. If you have a website, blog, or shop built with Jekyll, Gatsby, or Hugo, you can use Prepress to deploy it to your own AWS account.

How it works?

Without Prepress

Without Prepress, to host a static site built with Jekyll, Hugo or Gatsby you need to do the following:

Build the static assets by running the tool.
Create an AWS S3 (or similar) object store and upload the assets to it.
Configure the storage and the files for public (or private) access.
Setup conventions like redirecting / to /index.html on the storage.
Configure a CDN like Cloudfront to point to your site if you need SSL (HTTPS) support.

With every iteration of your site, you then need to upload the new files, set the access rights and invalidate the CDN caches.

With Prepress

Prepress takes care of all of this for you, and much more, in 3 steps:

Connect your git repo
Connect your AWS account
Press Go!

Today's release is our first step towards making hosting static sites developer-friendly, but we are far from done. We have a packed calendar of Prepress feature releases including supporting more cloud providers, more frameworks, and adding many of the other DevOps features that static sites benefit from most.

DEV Community: Kasia Hilborne

Some GTC24 Highlights

NVIDIA Announcements:

Vendors/Partners News:

Mini Resources List for Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails (RoR) Overview:

Resources:

Ruby On Rails Tutorials:

Training:

Cheat sheets:

Community:

Newsletters:

Podcasts:

Conferences:

Surveys:

Deployment Tools/ Platforms:

Blogs:

Mini Resource List for Golang

Golang Overview:

Resources:

📢 Cloud 66 Prepress v2 Release

🥁Cloud 66 Prepress - Build and deploy Jamstack sites on your own cloud!

How it works?

Without Prepress

With Prepress

Watch 2 mins demo on Cloud 66 Prepress