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Convert Bytes to String in Python: A Tutorial for Beginners

KDnuggets

But sometimes, you may need to work with bytes instead. Let’s learn how to convert bytes to string in Python. Strings are common built-in data types in Python.

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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

Rather than failing with an error, this encountered an existing bug in the DEC Unix “copy” (cp) command, where cp simply overwrote the source file with a zero-byte file. After this zero-byte file was deployed to prod, the Apache web server processes slowly picked up the empty configuration file.

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Unknown Magic Byte! How to Address Magic Byte Errors in Apache Kafka

Confluent

If you've used Kafka Streams, Kafka clients, or Schema Registry, you’ve probably felt the frustration of unknown magic bytes. Here are a few ways to fix the issue.

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Byte Down: Making Netflix’s Data Infrastructure Cost-Effective

Netflix Tech

By Torio Risianto, Bhargavi Reddy, Tanvi Sahni, Andrew Park Continue reading on Netflix TechBlog ».

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Announcing ksqlDB 0.21.0

Confluent

This release includes a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s foreign-key joins, the new data type BYTES, and a new ARRAY_CONCAT function. We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.21.0! All of these features […].

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Exploring Careers in Data Science One Byte at a Time

Emeritus

Kira Radinsky of Diagnostic Robotics Chairwoman & CTO, shared, “My true passion is arming humanity with scientific capabilities to automatically anticipate,… The post Exploring Careers in Data Science One Byte at a Time appeared first on Emeritus Online Courses.

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LLM finetuning memory requirements by Alex Birch

Scott Logic

Cost increases when gradient accumulation is enabled, or becomes ~free if used in concert with DDP DDP usually costs ~4 bytes/param, but becomes cheaper if used in concert with AMP DDP can be made 2.5 Transformer Math does not mention a "4 bytes/param master gradients" cost.

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