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Introducing chdb Postgres extension: High-performance imports from cloud storage
ClickHouse announces the chdb Postgres extension: fast imports and exports across cloud storage and formats, powered by the embedded ClickHouse engine and usable via COPY-style workflows.
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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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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and NVIDIA will be growing and maturing CUDA Rust into 2027 and beyond The systems layer of AI spans inference engines, serving infrastructure, drivers, and agent runtimes, and it churns constantly as models and techniques change. More and more of it is written in Rust, which catches whole classes of bugs at compile time…
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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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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.
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Speeding up gearhash on ARM64 (2× faster)
The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.
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React Now Rusted All The Way Out
Master.dev describes switching a 1,036-file React Router codebase from the Babel-based React Compiler to the new Rust-native version available via oxc, achieving a 17.6x speedup in the compiler phase and a 2.4x overall build improvement. The post also covers how to migrate using both the official Vite plugin and an alternative for React Router framework mode.
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Polars is releasing its first 2.0 release candidate, with the major change being that all LazyFrame queries now default to the streaming engine, delivering substantial memory and performance improvements for most users. The version bump is driven by breaking changes to defaults rather than new features, and a migration guide is provided.
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Goroutine Leak ProfilesGo 1.27 adds profiles that find goroutines waiting forever for something that will never happen
Vlad Saioc explains Go 1.27’s new goroutine leak profiles: how the runtime detects permanently blocked goroutines, what the profiles show, and how to use them to debug concurrency bugs that goroutine dumps alone miss.
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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.
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Getting 50 GB/s Back Out of the ANE
Eileen Yoon identifies an RTL performance bug in the Apple M3 Neural Engine where DRAM throughput collapses from 45–60 GB/s to 17–19 GB/s whenever total weight size is an exact multiple of 1 MiB. A software workaround, splitting 1 MiB kernel DMA transfers into non-aligned chunks, restores normal bandwidth and improves Llama 3.2 1B token throughput from 10 to 24 tokens per second.
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You're Leaving Compute on the Table
Nishant Joshi tallies roughly 15 TFLOPS of idle GPU and neural compute sitting on his desk across a MacBook, Mac mini, iPhone, and AirPods, and argues product teams should push more work onto users' own devices while keeping identity, billing, and source of truth on the server.
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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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The making of a very fast SPI flasher
localcc builds an Xbox 360 dual-NAND modchip and pushes an RP2040-based SPI flasher as fast as possible, replacing the SPI peripheral with PIO programs written in Rust, profiling with Tracy, and optimizing the USB path to approach the ~29 second theoretical read limit through the SMC.
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Thomas Neumann explains why classic lock coupling scales poorly on many-core CPUs because of physical contention on the root lock, how Optimistic Lock Coupling lets readers validate version numbers instead of writing, and how a C++ lock guard can encode validation in the type system so the compiler catches missed checks.
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Semantics for 2D Rasterization
Kulkarni, Whiting, and Panchekha introduce μSkia—a Lean-mechanized formal semantics for Skia 2D graphics—and an optimizer that speeds rasterization ~18.7% on Chrome-derived Skia programs while proving replacements correct.
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How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
Adrian Garcia Badaracco explains how Pydantic Logfire uses dynamic shredding of semi-structured OpenTelemetry attributes into separate Parquet columns, so queries on JSON attributes that once timed out now finish in under a second, plus plans for indexes and usage-based shredding.
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Comparison of Arena Architecture in malloc()
When multiple threads simultaneously allocate or deallocate memory from the allocator, the allocator will serialize them. Programs making intensive use of the allocator actually slow down as the number of processors increases.
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Software occlusion culling in Block Game
Eniko walks through software-rendered occlusion culling for a voxel/block game on a weak integrated GPU—why CPU-side culling mattered, how the technique works, and the performance wins on modest hardware.
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Jędrzej Maczan explains PyTorch's activation-checkpointing memory planner as a 0/1 knapsack problem and introduces dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg, a sliding-window DP with Hirschberg-style reconstruction that cuts peak RAM during memory planning by about 20x.
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