Open-weight models are not catching up to frontier APIs on benchmarks. They are already ahead on the number that decides most production budgets: cost per request at scale.

Saving to the database and publishing an event are two writes to two systems that fail independently. The transactional outbox pattern makes the event part of the same database transaction, so what commits is what gets published - here is a working Go and PostgreSQL implementation, including the retry, ordering, latency and cleanup details most guides skip.

A weekend bicycle ride to Vũng Tàu, the road that made it worth doing, and eight photographs of walls. Notes on riding for the pleasure of it, and on why a town you arrive in slowly gives you different pictures.

Bloom filters answer one narrow question - definitely not present, or maybe present - in a fixed amount of memory, and that narrow answer is enough to save databases from millions of disk reads for keys that were never there. Here is how they work, the math behind the false positive rate, and where RocksDB, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL actually use them.

A practical walkthrough of signing and verifying container images with cosign's keyless mode: how Fulcio and Rekor replace long-lived keys, a working GitHub Actions job, and the cosign v3 migration details that trip people up.

Extended thinking is not a smartness switch. It is extra sampled tokens, billed as output, trained by reinforcement learning on verifiable answers, and it has a measurable point past which accuracy goes down.