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Hands-on guides to AI infrastructure, MLOps, models, and shipping to production.
WSL Proxy WAF: Explainable Web Application Firewall at the Edge
Workstation WSL Proxy WAF: governed stages and signatures on a live-config OpenResty edge — monitor or block, with explainable support IDs.
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Every Release Earns Production: Making Promotions Boring and Safe
Ring Promoter makes promotion a protocol: health-gated hops through int → test → acc → prod, auto-rollback, and full history — every release earns production.
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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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