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Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels

NVIDIA Hopper packs serious architectural tricks. At the core: **Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA)**, **tensor cores**, and **swizzling**—the trio behind async, cache-friendly matmul kernels that flirt with peak throughput. But folks aren't stopping at cuBLAS. They're stacking new tactics: **warp-gro..

Inside NVIDIA GPUs: Anatomy of high performance matmul kernels
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The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

A July 2025 METR trial dropped a twist: seasoned devs using Cursor with Claude 3.5/3.7 moved **19% slower** - while thinking they were **20% faster**. Chalk it up to AI-induced confidence inflation. Faros AI tracked over **10,000 developers**. More AI didn’t mean more done. It meant more juggling, ..

The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants
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Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab - 18 Months of Strategic Career Development

To land a big career role like Mistral, mix efficient **tactical** moves (like LeetCode practice) with **strategic** ups, like building a powerful portfolio and a solid network. Balance is key; aim to impress and prepare well without overlooking the power of strategy in shaping a successful career...

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Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents

MiQ plugged **Google’s Agent Development Kit** into their stack to spin up **LLM agents** that turn plain English into clean, validated SQL. These agents speak directly to **Apache Pinot**, firing off real-time queries without the usual parsing pain. Behind the scenes, it’s a slick handoff: NL2SQL ..

Building a Natural Language Interface for Apache Pinot with LLM Agents
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Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack

Malicious npm packages just leveled up: this one dropped a self-spreading worm that hijacks repos and leaks secrets the moment it lands. It abuses `postinstall` scripts to run TruffleHog and swipe tokens straight from your codebase. Then it uses GitHub Actions to exfiltrate the loot and auto-publis..

Shai-Hulud npm Supply Chain Attack
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Demystifying Log Retention in Azure

Azure logs come in three flavors: **Activity Logs**, **Diagnostic Logs**, and **Log Analytics**. Each with its own rules for retention and billing. The catch? Those differences aren’t quirks—they’re baked in...

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Top 30 Argo CD Anti-Patterns to Avoid When Adopting Gitops

A teardown of Argo CD anti-patterns calls out 28 common misfires—stuff like skipping Git for Application CRDs or stuffing Helm/Kustomize config right into Argo CD manifests. Yikes. It pushes for a cleaner setup: use **ApplicationSets** instead of rolling your own YAML, turn on **auto-sync/self-heal..

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Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer

DigitalOcean just dropped **Organizations**—a real upgrade for anyone juggling multiple Teams. Think one top-level account to rule them all: centralized user control, one invoice to track, and org-wide settings for taxes, credits, and permissions...

Introducing DigitalOcean Organizations, a new and comprehensive account layer
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Observability for the Invisible: Tracing Message Drops in Kafka Pipelines

When an event drops silently in a distributed system, it is not a bug, it is an architectural blind spot. Detect, debug, and prevent message loss in Kafka-based streaming pipelines using tools like OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, Jaeger, and dead-letter queues. Make sure observability gaps in event strea..

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How FinOps Drives Value for Every Engineering Dollar

Duolingo’s FinOps crew didn’t just track cloud costs—they wired up sharp, automated observability across 100+ microservices. Real-time alerts now catch AI and infra spend spikes before they torch the budget. They sliced TTS costs by 40% with in-memory caching. Dumped pricey CloudWatch metrics for P..

How FinOps Drives Value for Every Engineering Dollar