HARDWARE
What Your Fab Wishes You Knew Before You Sent That Gerber
A board that passes DRC can still be expensive, slow, and fragile to build. Six things that cost nothing at design time and a great deal at volume.
FAILURE MODES
Lead story · EMBEDDED
Your Watchdog Timer Is Probably Lying to You
Most embedded teams enable the watchdog, kick it from a timer interrupt, and call the system resilient. That configuration hides exactly the failures a watchdog exists to catch.
INFRASTRUCTURE
We Cut Our Kubernetes Bill 62% Without Touching Autoscaling
Every cost-optimisation guide starts with the scheduler. Ours started with a spreadsheet of what we were actually requesting versus what we were actually using, and the gap was embarrassing.
SILICON
RISC-V Is Finally Boring, and That's the Whole Point
The interesting phase of an instruction set architecture is the phase where you cannot ship with it. RISC-V has stopped being interesting and started being infrastructure.
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SYSTEMS
Two Years of Rust in a Production Kernel: The Ugly Parts
The memory safety argument is correct and it is also not the interesting part. What we did not anticipate was what happens to a team when two languages share an ABI.
Hardware & Embedded
Closer to the metalEMBEDDED
Your Watchdog Timer Is Probably Lying to You
Most embedded teams enable the watchdog, kick it from a timer interrupt, and call the system resilient. That configuration hides exactly the failures a watchdog exists to catch.
SILICON
RISC-V Is Finally Boring, and That's the Whole Point
The interesting phase of an instruction set architecture is the phase where you cannot ship with it. RISC-V has stopped being interesting and started being infrastructure.
HARDWARE
What Your Fab Wishes You Knew Before You Sent That Gerber
A board that passes DRC can still be expensive, slow, and fragile to build. Six things that cost nothing at design time and a great deal at volume.
Software & Systems
Above the register levelINFRASTRUCTURE
We Cut Our Kubernetes Bill 62% Without Touching Autoscaling
Every cost-optimisation guide starts with the scheduler. Ours started with a spreadsheet of what we were actually requesting versus what we were actually using, and the gap was embarrassing.
SYSTEMS
Two Years of Rust in a Production Kernel: The Ugly Parts
The memory safety argument is correct and it is also not the interesting part. What we did not anticipate was what happens to a team when two languages share an ABI.
EDGE AI
We Moved Inference Off the GPU and Onto the Device. Here's the Real Ledger.
The cloud inference bill was the reason we started. It was not the reason it was worth doing, and the costs we did not forecast were the ones that nearly killed the project.