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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
NVIDIA Vera CPU: Olympus Cores Built for Maximum Single-Thread Performance in Agentic AI
Agentic AI shifts more of the critical execution path onto the CPU. Agents operate in sandboxes to execute code, invoke tools, retrieve context, interact with...
What Matters Most for NoSQL Migrations
How to prioritize the things that matter most for planning, executing and de-risking your NoSQL database migration
Deploy agents you can trust with centralized AI governance
Discover why organizations are struggling to deploy and scale agentic systems, and how a centralized AI governance platform can help you trust and scale agents.
NVIDIA NVLink: The Scale-Up Network for AI Factories
The demand for AI continues to accelerate. Workloads are getting larger, models are becoming more complex, and there is mounting pressure to deploy AI compute...
Integrate NVIDIA Omniverse RTX Sensor Simulation Into Existing Apps
Developers building 3D, design, simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twin applications need ways to bring physical AI capabilities into the tools and...
Use OpenTelemetry-native observability with Datadog from ingestion to investigation
Learn how you can use vendor-neutral telemetry while preserving Datadog’s infrastructure and APM experiences.
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
By AI Platform’s Model Runtime team and Inference team Introduction Most organizations consume LLMs through hosted APIs. Netflix went further — we run the full stack ourselves, from model deployment through inference, inside our existing production environment rather than a separate ML silo. Some of...
How we brought agentic workflows to Cloud SIEM with the Datadog MCP Server
See how we built MCP tools for Cloud SIEM, using usage data, progressive disclosure, and a custom eval framework to keep a multi-team agentic toolset reliable.
Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat
Use the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat to investigate cost anomalies, perform root cause analysis on cost spikes, and get personalized savings.
Q&A: How Capcom Brought Path Tracing to RE ENGINE Across PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem
Capcom's RE ENGINE team set out to bring path tracing into two shipping titles at once, Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA, each with a different visual...
Integrating Context-Aware Video AI Agents Into Enterprise Workflows
A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and...
Scaling Agentic AI Factories Through Extreme Co-Design with NVIDIA BlueField
Agentic AI changes the infrastructure pattern for AI factories. One request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, policy checks, storage...
Build a Multi-Camera 3D Tracking Application with NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 Skills
Developers building video analytics applications across large spaces must track the same object as it moves between camera views. Single-camera 2D tracking...
Develop Lightweight USD Runtimes Faster with AI Agents
OpenUSD is an open, extensible framework that provides a common scene description language for physical AI. It enables teams to bring CAD data, simulation...
Building Faster Cryptography with Carryless Multiplication in NVIDIA CUDA 13.3
For over fifteen years, x86 CPUs have shipped with a dedicated hardware instruction for carryless multiplication. It’s a small but stubborn primitive that...
Datadog named Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Datadog has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the sixth consecutive year. Learn more.
Monitor Apigee X API traffic and security with Datadog
Learn how to monitor Apigee X with Datadog so you can track API traffic, latency, anomalies, and security posture and catch issues before clients do.
Lessons From the Leaderboard: What 5,000+ Kagglers Taught Us About Improving AI Reasoning
The NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge invited the Kaggle community to explore a focused question: What techniques can improve reasoning accuracy when...
How to Run an Autoresearch Workflow with RL Agent Skills and NVIDIA NeMo
Coding AI agents are becoming practical operators for long-running machine learning (ML) workflows. They can inspect repositories, set up runtimes, resolve...
Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 in One Day Using Agent Skills
What if autonomous coding AI agents could push your vision reasoning models above 90% accuracy with almost no manual effort? When adapting vision reasoning...
Build Durable Chat Memory for RAG Using ScyllaDB and LangChain
How to replace LangChain's in-memory chat history with ScyllaDB — so your RAG chatbot retains context across restarts and scales across replicas
Full CDC semantics land in the Iceberg output for Redpanda Connect
Full CDC semantics in Iceberg mean the lakehouse reflects what the source database looks like right now, not what it looked like during last night’s batch window. Get to know the latest addition to Redpanda Connect.
Building Service Topology at Scale: Architecture, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
By Parth Jain , Rakesh Sukumar , Yingwu Zhao , Renzo Sanchez-Silva & Nathan Fisher A deep dive into the engineering challenges of building a real-time service dependency map at Netflix scale: from streaming architectures and distributed aggregation pipelines to time-travel queries and the methodolog...
NVIDIA Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Logical Error Rates by Over 300x
Useful quantum computers will require fault tolerant logical operations. Researchers are actively exploring many different quantum error correction (QEC) codes...
Extreme Event Likelihoods with Guided Generative Models
Across science, engineering, and finance, many of the most important risks come from low-likelihood, high-impact events. Estimating the probability of these...