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Guardians of the Agents 

A new static verification framework wants to make runtime safeguards look lazy. It slaps **mathematical safety proofs** onto LLM-generated workflows *before* they run—no more crossing fingers at execution time. The setup decouples **code from data**, then runs checks with tools like **CodeQL** and .. read more  

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Scaling Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly

Flipkart ditched its creakyStatsD + InfluxDBstack for afederated Prometheussetup—built to handle 80M+ time-series metrics without choking. The move leaned intopull-based collection,PromQL's firepower, andhierarchical federationfor smarter aggregation and long-haul queries. Why it matters:Prometheus.. read more  

Scaling Prometheus: Managing 80M Metrics Smoothly
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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch

A barebonestime-sharing OS kernel, written inZig, running onRISC-V. It leans onOpenSBIfor console I/O and timer interrupts. Threads? Statically allocated, each running inuser mode (U-mode). The kernel stays insupervisor mode (S-mode), where it catchessystem callsandcontext switchesvia timer ticks. .. read more  

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Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now hooks straight into **LocalStack**. Run full end-to-end tests for **serverless workflows**—Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, the whole crew—without bouncing between tools or writing boilerplate. Just deploy to LocalStack from the IDE using the **AWS SAM CLI**. It feels like .. read more  

Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE
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PostgreSQL maintenance without superuser

PostgreSQL’s moving in on superusers. As of recent releases—starting way back in v9.6 and maturing through PostgreSQL 18 (coming 2025)—there are now **15+ built-in admin roles**. No need to hand out superuser just to get things done. These roles cover the ops spectrum: monitoring, backups, fil.. read more  

PostgreSQL maintenance without superuser
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Magical systems thinking

AI now writes over **25% of Google’s** and as much as **90% of Anthropic’s** code. That’s not a trend—it’s a regime change. Still, the mess in large public systems reminds us: clever analysis isn’t enough. Complex systems don’t behave; they misbehave. When the machines are churning out code, the .. read more  

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Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs

**Budget Controls for AWS** just got better. The open-source tool now reins in more than just EC2. It wrangles **RDS Aurora**, **SageMaker**, and **OpenSearch** too. Under the hood, it taps **AWS Budgets**, **AWS Config**, and **custom tags** to watch spend like a hawk. Hit a budget threshold? It c.. read more  

Introducing Budget Controls for AWS: Automatically Manage Your Cloud Costs
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SLI Evolution Stages

A new SLI evolution model lays out a maturity roadmap—from rebranded latency/error metrics to ones that actually track business impact. It replaces shallow signals and pulls in the stuff that matters: how service failures hit user goals, tasks, and bottom lines... read more  

SLI Evolution Stages
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Best 20 Linux Commands for Daily Use in Production Servers

A fresh roundup drops20 go-to Linux commandsfor production sysadmins, dialing in on modern defaults likehtop > top,ss > netstat, andip > ifconfig. The shift? Faster tools that actually get updates. Built with systemd in mind, too. Expect the usual suspects—journalctl,rsync,crontab—all still pulling.. read more  

Best 20 Linux Commands for Daily Use in Production Servers
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%CPU Utilization Is A Lie

Stress tests on the Ryzen 9 5900X uncovered a big gap between **reported CPU utilization** and what the chip actually pushes. Around 50% on paper? Could mean close to full throttle in reality—thanks to sneaky behaviors from **SMT resource sharing** and **Turbo frequency scaling**. **Takeaway:** Raw.. read more  

%CPU Utilization Is A Lie
INTELLECT-3 is a frontier-class 100B+ Mixture-of-Experts language model developed by Prime Intellect and trained end-to-end using their large-scale asynchronous RL framework, PRIME-RL. Built on the GLM-4.5-Air base model, INTELLECT-3 combines supervised fine-tuning with long-horizon reinforcement learning across hundreds of verifier-backed environments spanning math, code, science, logic, and agentic tasks.

The model was trained on a high-performance cluster of 512 NVIDIA H200 GPUs across 64 nodes, supported by Prime Intellect’s Sandboxes execution engine, deterministic compute orchestration, and Lustre-backed distributed storage. The result is a model that surpasses many larger systems in reasoning benchmarks while remaining fully open-source.

Prime Intellect released not only the model weights but also the full training recipe: PRIME-RL, Verifiers, the Environments Hub, datasets, and evaluation suites. INTELLECT-3 is positioned as a foundation for organizations seeking to post-train or customize their own frontier-grade models without relying on proprietary AI labs.