Bare-metal Kubernetes just got a cloud-style glow-up. By wiring upMetalLBin layer2 mode with theNGINX ingress controller, the setup exposesLoadBalancer-typeservices—no cloud provider in sight. MetalLB dishes out static, LAN-routable IPs. NGINX funnels external traffic to internalClusterIPservices th..

A 10-node Raspberry Pi 5 cluster built with16GB CM5 Lite modulestopped out at325 Gflops- then got lapped by an $8K x86 Framework PC cluster running4x faster. On the bright side? The Pi setup edged out in energy efficiency when pushed to thermal limits. It came with160 GB total RAM, but that didn’t h..

Generative AI is snapping the attribution chain thatcopyleft licenseslike theGNU GPLrely on. Without clear provenance, license terms get lost. Compliance? Forget it. The give-and-take that powersFOSSstops giving - or taking...

Generative recommender systems need more than just observed user behavior to make accurate recommendations. Introducing A-SFT algorithm improves alignment between pre-trained models and reward models for more effective post-training...

Amazon rolled out fine-tuning and distillation forVision LLMslike Nova Lite viaBedrockandSageMaker. Translation: better doc parsing—think messy tax forms, receipts, invoices. Developers get two tuning paths:PEFTor full fine-tune. Then choose how to ship:on-demand inference (ODI)orProvisioned Through..

Significance testing determines if observed differences are meaningful by calculating the likelihood of results happening by chance. The p-value indicates this likelihood, with values below 0.05 suggesting statistical significance. Different tests, such as t-tests, ANOVA, and chi-square, help analyz..

AWS dropped a new cost-performance playbook pittingAmazon ECSagainstAWS Lambda. It's not just a tech choice - it’s a workload strategy. Go containers when you’ve got steady traffic, high CPU or memory needs, or sticky app state. Go serverless for spiky, event-driven bursts that don’t need a long lea..

Modern AI eats GPUs for breakfast - training, inference, all of it. Matrix ops? Parallel everything. Models like LLaMA don’t blink without a gang of H100s working overtime...

Microsoft just pulled off full-stack quantum teleportation withAzure Quantum, wiring up Qiskit and Quantinuum’s simulator in the process. Entanglement? Check. Hadamard and CNOT gates set the stage. Classical control logic wrangles the flow. Validation lands cleanly on the backend...

Netflix built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG) to connect member interactions across different devices instantly. Using Apache Flink and Kafka, they process up to1 millionmessages per second for node and edge updates. Scaling Flink jobs individually reduced operational headaches and allowed for s..