Engineering Insights

Node.js 14.2.0 (Current)

AI and efficiency

We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet (by contrast, Moore’s Law would yield an 11x cost improvement over this period). Our results suggest that for AI tasks with high levels of recent investment, algorithmic progress has yielde

May 2020

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Protecting Deployments

Pushing a change to your project results in a Preview Deployment. Then, once you're ready, merging it into results in a Production Deployment with the domain of your choice.master Even though Preview Deployments receive a unique URL, they might still be accessed by anyone that finds out about the URL. Today, we're introducing two features for easily protecting them right from the Dashboard. Read more

Node.js 13.14.0 (Current)

Jukebox

We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.

Node.js 14.1.0 (Current)

Announcing Vitess 6

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule. While only 12 weeks have elapsed since the previous release, it feels like a few key investments have started to pay dividends all at once. To provide some personal highlights: Improved SQL Support Vitess now understands much more of MySQL’s syntax. We have taken the approach of studying the queries issued by common applications and frameworks, and baking them right i