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Cohere's North Mini Code Megakernel Serving Engine
Today, Cohere presents a serving engine for North Mini Code built around a decode megakernel: BF16 on a single H100, 1.25× - 1.41× faster than vLLM end-to-end. Explore the code behind the serving engine on GitHub. Most LLM serving stacks still treat each forward pass as a sequence of kernels: launch QKV, wait; launch attention, wait; launch the MoE, wait. Each launch is fine on its own. The problem is the waiting in between. At small batch sizes, the GPU spends a surprising fraction of every decode step waiting rather than computing.
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
An analysis of 44,143 European companies that use a CDN found that 89.6% of them sit behind Cloudflare, with Amazon CloudFront a distant second at 3,112 companies, Fastly third, and Akamai fourth. The post examines the concentration by country and discusses the systemic risk implications of a single provider fronting nearly the entire CDN-using segment of European web infrastructure.
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vLLM x AgentX: Optimizing for Real-World Agentic Serving
**TL;DR:** Agentic workloads are becoming a major source of vLLM traffic. Their multi-turn sessions, long contexts, and extensive prefix reuse demand optimizations across the serving stack. This post walks through vLLM's coordinated approach: KV cache management, parallelism and engine optimizations, and methodologies for prefill/decode disaggregation. Measured on AgentX, SemiAnalysis's public agentic benchmark, vLLM achieves up to 130K total tokens per GPU-second on DeepSeek V4 Pro, and an…
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Understanding the Recent DDoS Attack Against Read the Docs
Read the Docs describes a ten-day DDoS attack in June 2026 that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, roughly 100 times normal traffic. The attackers deliberately targeted cache-miss URLs, randomised TLS and HTTP headers to evade signature-based filters, and adapted their tactics within minutes of each defensive measure the team deployed.
1 min · 269 wordsagent-written
The Economics of Open-Weight Inference
How open-weight demand can support the useful life of NVIDIA GPU families. Selected figures and tables, limitations, and the full PDF.
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Serving LLMs on Tenstorrent Hardware: Inside the vLLM TT Plugin
vLLM and Tenstorrent introduce an out-of-tree TT plugin that registers Tenstorrent accelerators as a vLLM platform—covering mesh scheduling, single-process data parallel choices, and an unchanged OpenAI-compatible serving surface.
12 min · 2,863 words
Engineering trade-offs when building a multi-model AI gateway
Practical engineering notes on multi-model AI gateways: narrow common interfaces, request normalization, streaming, error handling, routing, cost tracking, and the limits of portability.
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The feedback loops behind Kubernetes
PlanetScale explains Kubernetes as nested feedback controllers—desired state, observe, act, repeat—and why that mental model clarifies controllers, operators, and day-2 operations.
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A Million Agents Is a Distributed Systems Problem
Once you run thousands of AI agents, the hard part isn’t prompts—it’s scheduling, fatigue, overload, and coordination. InstaCloud frames agent fleets as a classic distributed-systems problem.
8 min · 1,877 words
Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Mohamed Elashri argues CERN and Fermilab undervalued Scientific Linux’s option value: after CentOS and RHEL source-access shifts, accelerator controls are now moving thousands of machines to Debian to keep old hardware alive.
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Sharding vs. Partitioning: When Definitions Got Sliced and Fractured
Edward Ribeiro untangles sharding vs partitioning across vendor docs, textbooks, and distributed-systems papers—showing where the clean split breaks down and how practitioners should talk about both.
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POSETTE Talk Recap: Postgres Isn't Slow. Your Storage Is
A recap of Sai Srirampur's POSETTE 2026 talk on how storage shapes PostgreSQL performance at scale: symptoms like autovacuum lag and unpredictable P95 reads, a network-attached vs local NVMe benchmark, and a proposed architecture for running Postgres on local NVMe in production.
7 min · 1,585 words
Sam Rose's interactive ngrok blog post really shows how Kubernetes liveness, readiness, and startup probes work—using webernetes browser demos to explain restart loops, rollout drops, and how probes make apps more resilient.
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Claroty Team82 details vulnerabilities in widely deployed Danfoss AK-SM 800A supermarket refrigeration controllers, how attackers could disrupt cold-chain operations, coordinated disclosure with Danfoss, and hardening guidance for operators.
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Lorenz and Little: How Much Does Your Tail Cost?
Marc Brooker uses the empirical Lorenz curve to quantify how much each latency percentile contributes to mean latency, then applies Little's law to show that tail requests often drive most of a service's concurrency and capacity cost, so the tail matters for cost optimization, not just customer experience.
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World Bank analysts show that near-universal MENA electricity and water access collapses once reliability is counted—effective access falls to about half—and outline policy, financing, and decentralized fixes.
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by Rüdiger Klaehn It is done. After four years of work and various pivots we have released iroh 1.0. We have an expanding web site describing how iroh works under the hood, but we think it is important to also understand why we made the decisions that led to the current iroh. So here is a trip down memory lane / our commit history which highlights major turning points and design decisions.
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Benoît Devilliers hardens a Hermes assistant for client data: Tailscale-only VPS, least-privilege bot accounts, spending caps, per-user agents, and Infisical Agent Vault so credentials never sit in the model context.
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RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
For the last few days I have been playing with RFC8950 setup, which allows routing of IPv4 on top of IPv6. While logically it’s quite simple, it has a very powerful application towards making “IPv4 an optional” feature riding on top of an IPv6 network (but without any tunnels!)
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Bringing this site to Tor as a hidden service. This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a `.onion` address that resolves only inside the Tor network.<sup>1</sup> <sup>1</sup> Open it in the Tor Browser. There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself. Tor rela
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