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Reduce CDN log costs with searchable archives
Route high-volume CDN logs to low-cost object storage with Observability Pipelines and search them with Archive Search—without a second tool.
Privacy-Aware Infrastructure in the AI-Native Era: An Asset Classification Case Study
Privacy controls — systems that enforce retention, access, allowed-purpose, downstream-sharing, or anonymization policies — require a reliable understanding of data to function. Before such a control can operate effectively, it must know exactly what it is looking at. This can be complex, as demonst...
Streamlining Resource Binding with End-to-End Support for Vulkan Descriptor Heaps
Shaders are GPU programs that process visual data—such as rays, pixels, geometry, and textures—to produce specific rendering effects. Shaders find necessary...
Deploy Boundary on Kubernetes with official Helm charts
HashiCorp Boundary now offers official Helm charts for deploying controllers and workers on Kubernetes. Learn which chart fits your deployment model and how to get started.
Introducing the Cluster API plugin for Headlamp
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources directly from a browser. Cluster API (CAPI) is a Kubernetes sub-project that brings declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs to cluster lifecycle management. It lets platform t...
Inspect Volcano workloads faster with Headlamp
Volcano is a cloud native batch scheduler for Kubernetes, built for high-performance computing, AI/ML, and other batch workloads. Headlamp is an extensible Kubernetes web UI. With its plugin system, Headlamp can surface APIs and workflows beyond the built-in Kubernetes resources. The Volcano plugin ...
See your serverless: introducing the Headlamp plugin for Knative
Headlamp is an open-source, extensible Kubernetes SIG UI project designed to let you explore, manage, and debug cluster resources. Knative brings serverless workloads to Kubernetes, handling traffic routing, autoscaling, and revision management so teams can deploy and iterate without fighting infras...
Scaling AI Inference Across Multiple GPUs Using NVIDIA TensorRT with Multi-Device Inference Support
Generative AI workloads are rapidly outgrowing the memory and compute budget of single GPUs. For inference developers building media generation pipelines, the...
Q&A: How KRAFTON Built PUBG Ally, a Co-Playable Character Powered by NVIDIA ACE
AI companions in games have long been constrained by fixed dialogue. PUBG Ally is a different kind of system. Built by KRAFTON for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, this AI...
How we used DSPy to turn AI evaluations into better responses in Dash chat
We used DSPy to improve LLM judges and optimize our chat experience, creating an evaluation-driven feedback loop that produced better outputs.
Stop sharing access secrets—try Border0 + Tailscale for free
Border0 ties every connection to a real person, securing databases, Kubernetes, SSH, and more.
Boundary 1.0 releases RDP session recording and improved management
Boundary 1.0 releases with support for RDP session recording and a preview ahead towards securing AI agent access in a brave new agentic world.
Scaling without friction: Aliases at project scope in Boundary
Boundary now supports aliases at project scope, aligning access with your organization's infrastructure while enabling teams to scale independently without conflicts.
How agents are transforming work
A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.
Discord Update: June 25, 2026 Changelog
Here's the Discord Changelog from June 25, 2026, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
One Postgres cluster, many apps
Yo, I heard you liked databases, so we put logical databases in your database cluster so you can database while you database
Kafka's log compaction corrupts data. Here's how we fixed it
There's a problem with Apache Kafka's log compaction. Here's what we found, how to reproduce it, and how we solved it in Redpanda.
How we saved over $3 million in idle compute costs with Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling
See how how multidimensional autoscaling reduced overprovisioning and mitigated reliability risks at scale.
Spotlight on WG Device Management
The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, sometimes aft...
Riding the Raft to Strong Consistency in ScyllaDB
How ScyllaDB is using per-tablet Raft groups to bring strong consistency to data, without sacrificing the parallelism that makes it fast
Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
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Accelerating BEV Pooling on NVIDIA GPUs for Physical AI Applications
An increasingly common design pattern for autonomous vehicles (AVs), robotics, and spatial AI systems is bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception. BEV models project...
Accelerating Transformers Fine-Tuning with NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.
Introducing the FFASR Leaderboard: Benchmarking ASR in the Real World
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