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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 19 Aug.
Kyverno is a platform primitive, not a security tool
Where does Kyverno live in your organization? I don’t mean which cluster! On which team’s slide deck does it show up? Whose budget line? For most companies I’ve talked to, the answer is security. Kyverno is...
ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.
Mojo🔥 is now open source
Mojo🔥 is now open source Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed through on that original promise, releasing the compiler and toolchain under an Apache 2 license....
Strengthening democratic oversight in national security
OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.
How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?
Open the source for the full engineering note.
How AI Coding Agents Can Unlock Materials Simulation with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Toolkit
Atomistic simulation requires three things: knowledge of the science, compute-efficient implementation of simulations, and accessible interfaces to the...
Improving infrastructure efficiency for growing demand in the age of AI
As demand for AI continues to grow, so does the infrastructure needed to support it.
Run Massive-Scale UMAP in Minutes Using Multiple GPUs—Without Losing Accuracy
Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used for visualization and feature extraction. Applications...
The New American AI Model Designed to be Customized
In this article, we will work through the various choices Thinking Machines made while building Inkling.
BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234
RFC 9234 lets routers reject route leaks on their own, using BGP Roles and the Only to Customer attribute. We measured who has deployed it, and found two Tier 1 networks unexpectedly stripping OTC.
Fragments: August 18
Part of the reason why I’m at Thoughtworks is because I’d like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard work of building such an organization. So I rel...