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Architectural Deep-Dive: vLLM Inference Engine: v0.32.1rc0

Eliminating Disk Thrashing in Online RL: vLLM's HTTP Weight-Transfer Protocol In high-throughput Reinforcement Learning (RL) pipelines for Large Lan…

EKS CI: Keep Test Mailbox Failures Actionable

EKS CI: Keep Test Mailbox Failures Actionable Email verification is a small step in many end-to-end tests, but in an EKS pipeline it can become the…

Namecheap account locked after an ID check: why every domain went down

A long-time Namecheap customer says his account was locked after he missed a single ID-verification email, and every domain in it stopped working, i…

My Policy-as-Code Check Passed. It Never Read the Policy.

In my last post , I showed how OPA and Conftest block over-privileged IAM roles before anything gets deployed. I ended with a warning: there's a cas…

Theo's 60% stat is an outage chart: 43 hours of Codex incidents

Originally published at tensorust.com . TL;DR: @theo posted that over 60% of T3 Code users who used Codex also used Claude Code, and sold it as proo…

49 cloud and AI deadlines before the end of 2026 (with what to do for each)

My day job is partly finops and vendor management. The thing I hate most: a vendor retires a model, a runtime or a plan, the notice goes to some bil…

One AWS account, several environments, and tags as the only map

How VPC Atlas draws and inventories one environment of a shared AWS account with its new tag filter, and what it leaves out. When the account is the…

Free JSON Locale Checker CLI for i18n Projects

What the CLI does @json-translate/check compares translated JSON locale files against a source locale. It is designed for the last step after transl…

Your Escalation Ladder Belongs in a Table, Not in Prose

Your escalation ladder should be a decision table that a test suite can replay, not four paragraphs a tired engineer has to interpret at 03:00. That…

A Bazel Bard

Actively exploited this week: 9 new CISA KEV entries (12 October to 18 October 2026)

Every week CISA adds vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue. The bar for getting on that list is not "severe on pape…

xtty: opening a second SSH shell without repeating the setup

I'm the developer of xtty, a terminal for macOS. Its focus is the setup work between commands: opening saved hosts, starting another remote shell, a…

I Committed 518,000 Lines in 30 Days. Production Kept 235,000.

Originally published on my blog — read it there with the full context, code and updates . Last week I did something I almost never bother to do: I c…

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AI-Assisted VoIP Call Center Ops: Claude Hooks & Incident KB

AI-Assisted VoIP Call Center Ops: Claude Hooks & Incident KB Route inbound calls to the right agent queue in real time, auto-resolve carrier cod…

Architectural Deep-Dive: Language Models Learn to Improve Language Models

Breaking Recursive Self-Improvement: How Research World Models Eliminate GPU Bottlenecks Autonomous engineering systems that optimize their own code…

One Password Shut Down a US Fuel Pipeline

In May 2021, Americans were filling plastic bags with gasoline. Panic buying. Lines wrapped around the block. A regional state of emergency declared…

A guard that never fires is the same as a guard that does not work

Every guard has two states: working and green by accident. Both print “OK”. The difference only shows when you force the condition it was supposed t…

n8n-sync — Git-based version control for n8n Community Edition workflows

If you are self-hosting n8n Community Edition, you already know the pain: no built-in version control. Enterprise has Source Control at €667/mo, but…

The Test Wasn't Wrong. It Was Answering an Older Question.

The Test Wasn't Wrong. It Was Answering an Older Question. I shipped a change I had reviewed, simulated, and deployed. An hour later my acceptance s…

🔎 Building IncidentCopilot: Designing a Deterministic Log Correlation Engine

Milestone 4 of IncidentCopilot — an open-source, local-first AI DevOps Incident Copilot 📌 Introduction Logs are plentiful during outages — the chall…

Sent is not confirmed

A send tells you about your side. A read-back tells you about the other side. Most agent failures I have debugged this year live in the gap between…

I built a free, open-source platform with 180+ developer tools and 18 technical guides (Built with Astro)

Hey Dev community! I want to share a project I've been building: Th-Tech. It's a comprehensive, free, and open-source platform for developers. Why I…

Drift Checks in TDK CLI: Fail Fast, Generator Changes, and Catching Hand Edits Before Commit

A drift check answers one question: has someone changed a generated file by hand? TDK runs that check before Tilt starts, so a hand edit stops the s…

Continuous Security Testing for Small Teams: What to Test, How Often, and Who Owns It

Small teams rarely have a security department. They have a few developers, maybe a team lead, and sometimes an MSP that looks after the infrastructu…

Zero Trust, explained without the buzzwords

"Zero Trust" might be the most abused phrase in security. Every vendor slaps it on a box and charges you extra for it. Let me strip the marketing of…

Why Vector RAG Fails AI Agents: Building an Autonomous SRE Swarm with FalkorDB

Large Language Models depend on the context they are given. In the year the usual way to give context has been Vector RAG (embeddings plus cosine si…

LLM access controls and monitoring: where the control belongs in the request path

Access control for LLM applications is usually discussed as a model problem. It is not. It is a request path problem. The model proposes an action,…

Getting Hands‑On with DeepSeek‑v4.1‑Flash‑1017: A DevOps‑Friendly LLM for Real‑World Apps

1. What was released / announced DeepSeek‑v4.1‑Flash‑1017 is the latest open‑source large language model (LLM) from DeepSeek AI, now hosted on Huggi…

Exit Criteria for a Free Model Tier

A free model tier is a lease with an unpublished end date. Signing it is not the mistake. Learning the terms during a production incident is. The us…