Yandex Blog
medium.com/yandex · Company blog · on HN since 2022
Yandex's engineering team writes about open-sourced infrastructure, LLM training and compression tools, and systems topics such as retries.
What HN saysCommenters link it as the fuller write-up behind Yandex's open-source releases, such as YaFSDP and the YTsaurus big data platform, and for its retry article.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Good Retry, Bad Retry5 people · 252 points · first shared 2024 · 66 comments on HN
- 2Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform3 people · 15 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3YaFSDP – a tool for faster LLM training and optimized GPU consumption2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4Yandex's High-Performance Profiler Is Now Open Source1 people · 34 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 5The Evolution of Extreme LLM Compression: From Quip to AQLM with PV-Tuning1 people · 10 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6Userver 2.0: Major framework release for I/O-bound applications1 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Robot That Solves the Rubik's Cube Faster Than Anyone Else in the World1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 8Yandex YaLM 100B: Largest GPT-Like Neural Network in Open Source1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 9Yandex Releases DivKit, an Open Framework for Server-Driven UI1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 10The Yandex BI tool DataLens is now open source1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 11Unmerged Patches and Useful Failures: My Journey to Postgres Major Contributor1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 12The Two Cultures of Programming: Why Both Are Important1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 13C++23 Is Finalized. Here Comes C++261 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bobnamob · 2025-01-01
The fun thing about control theory in CS is that (in my experience) it's far easier to build accurate simulations or even run scaled down experiments than it would be in a physical setting.
See articles like [1] or any of Marc Brooker's [2] blog for inspiration
[1] https://medium.com/yandex/good-retry-bad-retry-an-incident-story-64807…
[2] https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/04/11/simulation.html
albertzeyer · 2024-06-18
The blog post seems to contain more details and the core ideas: https://medium.com/yandex/yafsdp-a-tool-for-faster-llm-training-and-op…
rektide · 2023-03-20
There's thankfully a link to a medium post, describing a bit of what it is, how they got here. https://medium.com/yandex/ytsaurus-exabyte-scale-storage-and-processin…