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A multi-cloud, S3-compatible object storage service for low latency data access anywhere.

AI’s Impending Left-pad ScenarioAI’s Impending Left-pad Scenario

Your AI workflows rely on models that other people post on the Internet. How can you be sure that they'll stay up? Today Xe covers the history of the infamous left-pad incident of 2016 and how it could happen again with AI.
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DeepSeek R1 is good enoughDeepSeek R1 is good enough

DeepSeek R1 is a frontier-grade reasoning model that you can run on your own hardware. In this article, Xe digs through the papers and slices past the hype to explain what DeepSeek R1 really gives users and how the model is revolutionary for what it is.
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How do large language models get so large?How do large language models get so large?

AI models, comprised mainly of floating-point numbers, function by processing inputs through various components like tokenizers and embedding models. They range in size from gigabytes to terabytes, with larger parameter counts enhancing performance and nuance representation. How do they get so large though?
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What’s the Big Deal with Conditional Writes Support in S3?What’s the Big Deal with Conditional Writes Support in S3?

There has been a lot of enthusiasm about the recent announcement by AWS about support for Conditional Writes in S3. We will dive into why this is a big deal and what it means for developers. We will also explore CAS operations and how they relate to S3 Conditional Writes feature. Finally, we will discuss whether developers can now avoid client-side consensus mechanisms completely when using S3.
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Tigris vs. S3 & Cloudfront

Tigris is a globally distributed S3-compatible object storage solution available that can easily be hosted on Fly.io. In this article, we'll explore how Tigris fits into the existing slate of object storage options and why you might choose one over the other.
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Tigris, the globally distributed S3-compatible object storageTigris, the globally distributed S3-compatible object storage

Tigris is a globally distributed object storage service that provides low latency anywhere in the world, enabling developers like you to store and access any amount of data using the S3 libraries you're already using in production. Today, we're launching our public beta on top of Fly.io.
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How we built our metadata layer on FoundationDBHow we built our metadata layer on FoundationDB

Tigris is a globally available, S3 compatible object storage service. Tigris uses FoundationDB's transactional key-value interface for its underlying metadata storage. In the first post of the series we will share the details of how we have built the metadata layer on top of FoundationDB. We will cover the topics data layout, and schema management.
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