AWS-Designed Inferentia Chips Boost Alexa Performance

source:-https://www.enterpriseai.news Almost two years after unveiling its Inferentia high-performance machine learning inference chips, Amazon has almost completed a migration of the bulk of its Alexa text-to-speech ML inference workloads to Inf1 instances on its AWS EC2 platform. The dramatic move to infrastructure powered by the newer chips was made to gain significant cost savings and performance gains over the GPU-based instances on EC2 that were formerly being used, according to the company. By migrating the workloads to Inf1 instances, the

IT Job Seekers: Open Source Jobs Need You, Especially in DevOps

Source:-https://www.enterpriseai.news Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world are continuing to seek IT workers with proven skills in open source software to fill job vacancies that consistently remain open due to a lack of qualified candidates. That’s the conclusion of the 2020 Open Source Jobs Report from The Linux Foundation and learning platform vendor edX, which surveyed 175 hiring managers and more than 900 open source professionals to examine the demand and prospects for open source skills in