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Hands-on guides to AI infrastructure, MLOps, models, and shipping to production.
Ring Promoter — QA Gates Before Production
Ring Promoter QA gates: auto-promote early rings, keep a human gate before prod, and treat health plus version checks as first-class quality gates.
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Uncovering LLM Bottlenecks: Observability, OTEL & Cost Control
Workstation on uncovering LLM agent bottlenecks with observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos, Langfuse — with clear pros/cons, cost levers, and usage metrics that protect margins.
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Turbocharging LLMs
Workstation on turbocharging LLMs: PagedAttention paging for KV cache, vLLM serving, Self-Debugging for agents, PowerInfer token rates, and EG-MLA memory cuts — with production trade-offs.
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Rust Async Blocking, Rayon & Modern Applications
Workstation on async Rust blocking, Rayon for CPU-bound work, and why Rust fits modern APIs, edge, agents, and CI/CD — inspired by Alice Ryhl’s Rayon guidance.
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Ring Promoter: Modern CI/CD You Cannot Miss for AI-Powered Deployments
Ring Promoter is the modern CI/CD control plane for AI-powered deployments: shared rings, health gates, version verification, auto-rollback, and multi-app promote.
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Workstation WSL Proxy: API Gateway, CDN & Agent Edge
Workstation WSL Proxy (WSLProxy) is a complete API gateway and CDN edge: live routing, WAF, cache, multi-POP DNS, MCP — with Agents Gateway and MCP Gateway in progress.
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KubePilot: CoPilot, Pilot & AutoPilot for Faster Kubernetes Incidents
KubePilot helps SRE, DevOps, and platform teams move from noisy cluster signals to a safe fix — CoPilot, Pilot, and AutoPilot. Open source at kubepilot.org.
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Muse Glimmer on Ollama: Always-On Local Agents on One GPU
Meta Muse Glimmer brings always-on local agents to a single GPU via Ollama: 30B, Apache 2.0, 128K context, vision and tools — Workstation business guide.
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