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Happy Friday! 🥳 A couple of weeks back, Wenchao (creator of the Realtek Network Driver for ESX Fling) reached out to me to share an exciting development he had been working on. Unlike traditional e…
For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter. With new RTL8159-based 10G USB 3.2 adapters coming onto the market, the bulky adapters might be a thing of the past. Just look at the size of the thing in comparison to my Thunderbolt adapters:
2.5G and even 5G USB adapters have been out for a while, but sometimes you need more bandwidth.
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
How to move fast when building for the physical world
I have been running the full VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 stack using the Minisforum MS-A2 in a three-node configuration for almost a year now. While the MS-A2 is not hardware that you would f…
I've had my Framework 13 for a year now, but am I still enjoying it?
Cloudflare’s Gen 13 servers double our compute throughput by rethinking the balance between cache and cores. Moving to high-core-count AMD EPYC ™ Turin CPUs, we traded large L3 cache for raw compute density. By running our new Rust-based FL2 stack, we completely mitigated the latency penalty to unlock twice the performance.
Disaggregating Prefill and Decode: Faster First Tokens, Faster Streams
Découvrez comment remplacer votre box Internet SFR, Free, Bouygues ou Orange par du matériel UniFi. Guide complet opérateur par opérateur.
The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March, and after reading through the reviews of Intel CPUs on my electronics store of choice, many of which (!) mention CPU replacements, I am getting the impression that Intel’s current CPUs just are not stable 😞. Therefore, I am giving up on Intel for the coming years and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU instead.
Sourcing data directly from diskISfaster than caching in memory. I brought receipts.
Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is
Hardware got wider, not faster. More cores, more bandwidth, huge vector units — but clocks, IPC, and latency flatlined. Old rules like “memory is faster than disk” are breaking. To go fast today, you
Datacenter-Scale Heat Management
After Claude Pro changed to weekly limits, I explored self-hosting Qwen3-Coder-480B with 400k context windows. Here's what I learned about costs, alternatives, and why Claude Code still dominates the landscape.
Miniature rack builds, for portable or compact Homelabs.
The cloud you own. Hardware, with the software baked in, for running infrastructure at scale.
We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated. F...
Since launching the MS-01 in 2024, Minisforum has steadily gained popularity for its unique design that sets it apart from established players in the small form factor (SFF) market. Following the s…
When you read my blog articles and stuff – you may get the idea that everything I do – just happens to be right and that I succeed at every attempt. This article is here to remind you t…
I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where 10Gbps fiber (FTTH) is not only available but also cheap. Here's how I'm taking advantage of this.
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
