Anita Zhang is here to tell us how Meta manages millions of bare metal Linux hosts and containers. We also discuss the Twine white paper and how AI is changing their requirements.

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Featuring:

• Anita Zhang – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

Links of the week

• Decoder podcast with Drew Houston
• tang.pdf">Twine: A Unified Cluster Management System for Shared Infrastructure

Faux or fo sho

• Attention is all you need
• Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
• Causally Abstracted Multi-armed Bandits

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