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The Future of AI in SRE: Preventing Failures, Not Fixing Them
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (714+ words) For years, site reliability engineering (SRE) has centered on one mission: keeping systems healthy while everything else " code, configurations and infrastructure " changes around them. But as complexity grows, even the most experienced SREs hit a wall. Logs multiply, dependencies intertwine…...
Nvidia DGX Spark: The New Stack Developer's Guide
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1040+ words) The ability to run large AI models locally defines the next frontier of developer productivity. Without desktop-class AI compute, data scientists and AI developers remain tethered to cloud infrastructure, constrained by latency, cost unpredictability and data sovereignty concerns. Nvidia DGX…...
AI Governance Is the Next IT Battleground
3+ day, 57+ min ago (577+ words) The discipline of governance for unstructured data is gaining momentum in the AI age, given that this is the primary data required to feed AI data pipelines. Approaching governance for unstructured data versus structured data requires new skills and tools…...
Why Neoclouds Are the Answer To AI Storage Lock-in
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (931+ words) One of the more meaningful consequences of AI's growth in the enterprise is its impact on the cloud race. The industry is shifting from the consolidation of services in the three main hyperscalers " AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure " to…...
Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1100+ words) Did Kubernetes break up Amazon Web Services cloud party? "I think that part of that initial attraction to Kubernetes is that people wanted to get some optionality around their cloud and they felt locked into AWS," he said. "There was…...
Four Data Infrastructure Shifts Defining AI Success in 2026
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (378+ words) Over the past year, I've met with customers and partners across every major industry, from healthcare and public sector to manufacturing and finance. No matter the vertical, the pattern is the same: The path to real AI value runs straight…...
Donald Knuth’s 2025 Christmas Lecture: The Knight’s Tours
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1477+ words) It's that time of the year!" read the email from Stanford Online. As he approaches his 88th birthday, Donald Knuth returned in early December for his special once-a-year Christmas" lecture " a tradition he's been honoring for over 30 years. Stanford's beloved professor…...
Apple UX Pioneer on Reviving Computer Desktop Design
3+ week, 5+ day ago (913+ words) Scott Jenson is sad over the stagnation of computer desktop design, a field with still-untapped potential for making humans way more productive. "Desktop UX has not meaningfully changed in 20 years," he lamented, sharing his thoughts at the Canonical Ubuntu Summit…...
Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (622+ words) GPUs have become the must-have compute of the dawning Age of AI. But maybe not every organization, or every job, demands these scarce, expensive-to-run processors. For 10 years, Google produced TPUs, processors designed for machine learning (ML) workloads. But as more organizations…...
A Frontier Model Built Like a Brain with Python and Rust
1+ mon, 16+ hour ago (1455+ words) The team from Pathway believes that the transformer architecture developed eight years ago has reached its limits, which no amount of computing can overcome. Nor is there the power available to sustain itself. Further, there's a lack of temporal reasoning…...