From Ops to DevOps – Increasing efficiency and flexibility by switching to Scrum teams. Read up on our experiences and learn tips & tricks.
TL;DR: A dual-socket AMD EPYC 9334 delivers 20–28 tokens/sec on Q4-quantized 7B–20B LLMs and sub-real-time TTS inference (RTF 0.16 for Kokoro). Throughput is roughly half that of an NVIDIA L4 GPU, but at a fraction of the per-hour cost. For batch, async, and lightweight TTS workloads, this AMD EPYC LLM inference benchmark shows CPU is […]
Patching is a tedious but necessary task when it comes to keeping your systems updated and protected from vulnerabilities. Patching effectively and regularly can be the difference between a smooth experience for your customers, and a frustrating one. But more importantly, it keeps your data safe from security breaches and ransomware attacks that could devastate […]
Organizing infrastructure and the various teams involved can create confusion and headaches. Terraform is an excellent tool for managing infrastructure as it gives you easy control over all your infrastructure from one place. As part of our effort to provide customers with more tooling to help them manage their infrastructure in a simple and reliable […]
Monitoring your IT infrastructure is a critical part of ensuring both internal and external performance. Just as your business continues day-in and day-out, your services need to be provided in the same fashion. If something goes wrong, you need to know about it and fix it as quickly as possible. The best practice is to […]
This year at DeveloperWeek Austin, the largest developer event in Texas and the southern US, we took the opportunity to conduct a survey of attendees – including developers/engineers, developer managers and executives. This “Developer IaaS Insights Study” revealed a number of current industry trends and confirmed Leaseweb USA’s own experiences of the rapidly evolving cloud […]
This is a guest blog written by Ara Sadoyan, Founder of OddEye. Here he shares some information about one of OddEye’s partners Mouseflow, and their infrastructure hosted at Leaseweb. Recently, I’ve been reading lots of articles and stories about Docker, container orchestration, microservice deployment, and how it has saved lives and tons of time […]
Over the last couple of years Leaseweb’s product engineering department has gone through some major changes, and by far the biggest was how our product engineering department has evolved. In earlier blogs, my colleagues Arnoud and Sander already talked about Maturity models and scaling our engineering department. However, I want to tell you about how, […]
At Leaseweb we are always looking for ways to automate tasks and processes to make the work of our engineers easier and allow them to spend more time on innovation rather than repetitive tasks. One of those tasks is the installation of (monthly) recurring security updates (Windows, Linux, etc.). Not every company has the latest […]
This is the second part in a 2-part series. Read part 1. In my last post I gave an overview of how we started the process of changing the way we do agile development at Leaseweb by setting goals,
In this blog post I’m going to cover how we are scaling our engineering department at Leaseweb: where we started, the lessons we’ve learned, and how we are hoping to move forward.