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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.
Creating the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVFP4 Checkpoint with NVIDIA Model Optimizer
As context windows grow longer, moving large model weights efficiently becomes critical to performance. A common way to address this is quantization, an...
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.
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...
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...
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!
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.
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
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...
Automatically enrich security logs with MITRE ATT&CK context before they reach your SIEM
Learn how Observability Pipelines enriches security logs with MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques before routing them to your SIEM or storage destination.
Maximize AI Factory Energy Efficiency Through Full-Stack Inference and Training Optimizations
Power can account for 40% of the operating expenses (OpEx) to run an AI factory. Each watt can be spent on overhead, data ingestion, training, or generating...
Boost Inference Performance up to 15x on NVIDIA Blackwell Using DFlash Speculative Decoding
As AI systems move from single-turn interactions to coordinated multiagent workflows, low-latency inference becomes increasingly important. Autoregressive LLMs...
Build an AI Scientist for Life Science Discovery with NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit
AI scientists are emerging as a new interface for scientific computing. These agents can read papers, write code, generate hypotheses, call APIs, inspect files,...
How Telcos Build Autonomous Networks with Agentic AI
Telecom operators are adopting AI across network operations, customer care, and back-office workflows, but most are still early in the journey to autonomy. In...
Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: An Early Research Exploration at Netflix
By Zhuoning Yuan , Ta-Ying Cheng , Benjamin Klein , Bahareh Azarnoush Introduction At Netflix, we build technology to help storytellers bring their creative visions to life and to help members discover the stories they love. To connect stories with diverse audiences around the world, we produce prom...
Bridge Queries in Redpanda SQL
Stop choosing between fresh data and robust Parquet files. Redpanda SQL bridge queries let you query live streaming topics and historical Iceberg tables together, without the compaction overhead.
How we migrated a live routing system using AI-assisted refactoring
Using AI-assisted refactoring, we migrated our live routing brain to a relational model, safely validating changes against live production traffic.
How to migrate feature flags without breaking production
Feature flag migrations have a reputation for stalling. Learn how to structure the process in a few steps: audit legacy flags, validate evaluation parity with shadow mode, and cut over with confidence.
How Netflix Simplified Batch Compute with Kueue
By Alvin Bao , Alex Petrov , Jennifer Lai , Aidan Sherr , and Samartha Chandrashekar As a part of the journey to transition Netflix’s compute infrastructure to be more Kubernetes-native, we have leaned into incorporating components from the Kubernetes ecosystem into our container platform Titus . On...
CCCL Runtime: A Modern C++ Runtime for CUDA
The NVIDIA CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL) provides delightful and efficient abstractions for CUDA developers in C++ and Python. It features: Parallel...
Enable Real-Time AI for High-Speed Data Acquisition with DAQIRI
When AlphaFold2 revolutionized drug discovery in 2020, its success relied entirely on the roughly 170,000 protein structures collected by scientists since 1971...
Inside NVIDIA Halos for Robotics: A Full-Stack Functional Safety System for Physical AI
Physical AI—robots working autonomously alongside people in factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes—is arriving faster than most expected. Traditional...
Using Evaluation Frameworks with Agent Observability
Run DeepEval and Pydantic Evals natively in Datadog Agent Observability. Track regressions and connect eval scores to production traces.
The Data Canary: How Netflix Validates Catalog Metadata
By Celina Amados At Netflix, our catalog metadata is crucial to our member experience, and a single corrupted data state can impact millions of viewers immediately. To protect streaming reliability, we built an automated data canary system that validates data transformations using production traffic...