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From Zero to GPU: A Guide to Building and Scaling Production-Ready CUDA Kernels

Hugging Face just dropped Kernel Builder—a full-stack toolchain for building, versioning, and shippingcustom CUDA kernels as native PyTorch ops. Kernels arearchitecture-aware,semantically versioned, andpullable straight from the Hub. It tracks changes with lockfiles and bakes inDocker deploysout of..

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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search

GPT-5's“thinking” modeljust leveled up. It's not just answering queries—it’s doing full-on research. Picture deep, multi-step Bing searches mixed with tool use and reasoning chains. It reads PDFs. Analyzes them. Suggests what to do next. Then actually does it. All from your phone. What’s changing:L..

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search
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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison

Architectures since GPT-2 still ride transformers. They crank memory and performance withRoPE, swapGQAforMLA, sprinkle in sparseMoE, and roll sliding-window attention. Teams shiftRMSNorm. They tweak layer norms withQK-Norm, locking in training stability across modern models. Trend to watch:In 2025,..

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
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Best Practices for High Availability of LLM Based on AI Gateway

Alibaba Cloud’s AI Gateway just got sharper. It now handlesreal-time overload protectionandLLM fallback routingusing passive health checks, first packet timeouts, and traffic shaping. It proxies both BYO and cloud LLMs—think PAI-EAS, Tongyi Qianwen—and redirects load spikes or failures on the fly. F..

Best Practices for High Availability of LLM Based on AI Gateway
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Hermes V3: Building Swiggy’s Conversational AI Analyst

Swiggy just gave its GenAI tool, Hermes, a serious glow-up. What started as a simple text-to-SQL bot is now acontext-aware AI analystthat lives inside Slack. The upgrade? Not just tweaks—an overhaul. Think: vector-based prompt retrieval, session-level memory, an Agent orchestration layer, and a SQL..

Hermes V3: Building Swiggy’s Conversational AI Analyst
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Simplifying Large-Scale LLM Processing across Instacart with Maple

Instacart builtMaple, a backend brain for handling millions of LLM prompts—fast, cheap, and shared across teams. It’s not just another service. Maple runs onTemporal,PyArrow, andS3, strip-mines away provider-specific boilerplate, auto-batches prompts, retries failures, and slashes LLM costs by up t..

Simplifying Large-Scale LLM Processing across Instacart with Maple
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RELIANOID Load Balancer Community Edition v7 on AWS using Terraform

🚀 New Guide Available! Learn how to quickly deploy RELIANOID Load Balancer Community Edition v7 on AWS using Terraform. Our step-by-step article shows you how to provision everything automatically — from VPCs and subnets to EC2 and key pairs — in just minutes. 👉 https://www.relianoid.com/resources/k..

Knowledge base Deploy RELIANOID Load Balancer Community Edition v7 with Terraform on AWS
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Deploy a containerized application with Kamal and Terraform

A Docker-first workflow combinesTerraformandKamalinto a lean, Elastic Beanstalk-ish alternative—without the bloat. Terraform spins up a three-tier VPC and wires it toECR. Kamal takes it from there, booting containers on a raw EC2 box: app, proxy, monitor. One script. Done...

Deploy a containerized application with Kamal and Terraform
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AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

Document databases are crucial for AI apps in the gen AI era. Microsoft's open-source DocumentDB project, based on PostgreSQL, is moving to the Linux Foundation, offering a vendor-neutral, open-source alternative to MongoDB. DocumentDB's compatibility with MongoDB drivers and open source governance ..

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You Vibe It You Run It?

Vibe Coding lets developers create software by chatting with AI, skipping traditional coding. But the non-determinism of AI prompts poses significant risks for reliability and maintainability, potentially leading to addiction-like dependence on this new tool. Think twice before fully embracing this ..

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