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Mainframe Mediators: AI Agents' Growing Pains
The Current State of Play AI agents have made significant strides in automating tasks, including those performed by credit controllers [1]. These intelligent…
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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LLM-driven NLG quality evaluators: Practical benefits for software devs
Natural language generation is now a core dependency in software products, from help desk automation to dynamic content and code documentation. Shipping an NLG…
LLMs Run Locally
For engineers evaluating where and how to use large language models, the practical landscape is split between remote inference providers and local execution…
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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Gravitee's Gateway API Simplifies Partner Integration
Platform teams are under constant pressure to expose internal capabilities to partners without creating a new operational burden. The conversation around…
Missing Teeth in AI-Powered Agents
Lacking Observability: The Current State of AI-Powered Agent Development AI-powered agents are revolutionizing industries by automating tasks and making…
