I’ve talked about how to make tiny Docker images a fair bit in the past, but now that Docker has multi-stage builds, it’s time to revisit… (more…)

We are happy to announce that today Docker has released its first Github Action! We’ve been working with GitHub, looking into how developers have been using GitHub Actions with Docker to set up their CI/CD workflows. The standard flows you’ll see if you l... (more…)

Recently I was working to wrap calls to a binary with a web-service. The binary reads input from a file and writes output to another file. It’s a producer-consumer model where the web-service… (more…)

At Weights & Biases, we are building tools that help machine learning teams version, optimize, and understand their models.  Often these models rely on sensitive or proprietary data that is not allowed to leave a customer’s network.  We also have many... (more…)

Since I started administering Linux systems, I was told that the system’s load average is the most important metric to check the status of a server. It was critical to keep the server’s load average below 70-80% of the total number of CPU cores, so that t... (more…)