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ACID Transactions are not just for banks — the Vitess approach

The outdated example of transferring money from account A to account B needs to be updated for today's emerging applications. Vitess provides an answer. Remember the early 2000s world of Office Space? Java was still new, usenet passed for social media, and applications were using proprietary Sun hardware with Oracle databases. Then the tech bubble burst, and in that time of frugality, companies shifted to using commodity hardware with open source databases. In many cases, the database of choice

Node.js 12.16.3 (LTS)

Videos: Intro to Vitess—its powerful capabilities and how to get started

In 2020, we launched our first video series about Vitess to help individuals learn more about its features and capabilities. For those new to Vitess, it is an open source horizontal sharding framework for MySQL, developed at YouTube to help them keep up with their massive scale. It was later donated to the CNCF and now sits among Kubernetes, Prometheus, and others as a graduated project. The videos feature Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and CTO of PlanetScale. At a glance, these short v

Node.js 14.0.0 (Current)

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Elastic: Distributed by design

Learn the how and why behind Elastic’s distributed nature and what being distributed means to us as a business practice and mindset.

Improving verifiability in AI development

We’ve contributed to a multi-stakeholder report by 58 co-authors at 30 organizations, including the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Mila, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and Center for Security and Emerging Technologies. This report describes 10 mechanisms to improve the verifiability of claims made about AI systems. Developers can use these tools to provide evidence that AI systems are safe, secure, fair, or pri