Platforming The Future

As a seasoned technology leader with a passion for technology, I'm excited to share my insights on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies. Join me as I explore the latest developments in platform engineering, cloud computing, devops, agile methodologies, artificial intelligence and more. I do not have a regular posting cadence, but I do try to keep this feed fairly current.

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LM Studio 0.4.0 Released
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LM Studio 0.4.0 is here! Learn about the new background daemon, parallel inference requests, and enhanced CLI tools for local AI development and automation.

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What Is Shifting Down?
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Shifting down in platform engineering reduces developer burden by moving complexity into the platform layer. This strategy enables organizational scale without burnout.

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Moving Beyond LLMs

AI is more than just LLMs. Explore the full ecosystem of AI models, including SLMs, LAMs, LQMs, and World Models, and learn how they power modern intelligent systems.

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Nanoservices To The Rescue
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Are nanoservices right for your project? Weigh the benefits of lightweight, atomic functions against the overhead of increased latency and deployment complexity.

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Rightsizing Kafka
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Avoid Kafka bottlenecks. Discover how to balance brokers and partitions, calculate resource headroom, and prepare your cluster for seamless failover.