Latency

Apache Spark Structured Streaming powers large-scale, long-running mission-critical data pipelines from ETL streaming to analytics and machine learning. But as operational use cases evolved, teams started demanding something more: sub-second …

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) simulator using asyncio. We model a realistic distributed network with asynchronous message passing, configurable delays, and Byzantine nodes …

In the world of generative AI, latency is the ultimate killer of immersion. Until recently, building a voice-enabled AI agent seemed like assembling a Rube Goldberg machine: You’d pipe the …

‘Uncanny Valley’ is the final frontier for generative video. We’ve seen AI avatars that can talk, but they often lack the soul of human interaction. They suffer from strenuous activities …

In this tutorial, we build a cost-aware planning agent that deliberately balances output quality against real-world constraints such as token usage, latency, and tool-call budget. We design the agent to …

Alibaba Cloud’s Quen team has the open-source Quen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core functions in a stack, voice clone, voice design, and high-quality speech generation. …

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end streaming voice agent that demonstrates how modern low-latency conversation systems work in real time. We simulate the entire pipeline, from segmented audio input …