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Learn: Inference and GPUs

Vol. I No. 26 Saturday, October 17, 2026 Closing 12:53 PM UTC · next edition 10:00 AM UTC

Serving models fast and cheap.

4 steps to the basics

Start here

  1. Mastering LLM techniques: inference optimizationNVIDIA · Where the time and memory go when a model answers.
  2. Optimizing inferenceHugging Face · Caching, compilation and attention tricks, in practice.
  3. QuantizationHugging Face · Smaller numbers, smaller bills: the methods compared.
  4. vLLM quickstartvLLM · Serving an open model yourself, in minutes.

New for beginners

  1. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 13, 2026
    How to Rewrite Apache Spark UDFs for GPU Acceleration with AI Agents
  2. Real PythonOct 9, 2026
    Hugging Face Transformers: Leverage Open-Source AI in Python
  3. KubernetesOct 6, 2026
    The Shift to cgroup v2 in Kubernetes: What You Need to Know
  4. SambaNovaSep 8, 2026
    What is AI Inference? | SambaNova

Go deeper

  1. AWS Machine LearningOct 16, 2026
    Building trust in AI agents: A production-ready evaluation framework with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  2. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 15, 2026
    Testing Serverless Inference at Scale: Real Performance Results
  3. CoreWeaveOct 13, 2026
    Tutorial: Benchmarking GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1 vs GPT-5.6 Sol using W&B Weave
  4. Arm NewsroomOct 13, 2026
    How Arm is helping developers build local AI systems for the intelligent edge
  5. AWS Machine LearningOct 12, 2026
    Accessing OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan
  6. AWS Machine LearningOct 12, 2026
    Run multi-node inference workloads using Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers
  7. CohereOct 9, 2026
    Shared vs. Dedicated AI Inference: Embed & Rerank
  8. BasetenOct 9, 2026
    What makes a high-quality NVFP4 quantization?
  9. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 9, 2026
    Should You Use Spot or On-Demand GPUs for Model Training?
  10. AWS Machine LearningOct 8, 2026
    Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
  11. AMD GPUOpenOct 6, 2026
    Source-to-ISA correlation for pre-compiled AMD GPU code objects with RGA 2.15
  12. Google CloudOct 6, 2026
    Networking for AI inference model serving - GKE only and for all other backends
  13. AWS Machine LearningOct 2, 2026
    Fine-tune a search agent with multi-turn RL on Amazon SageMaker AI
  14. CoreWeaveOct 2, 2026
    Why Open Models Can Win on Enterprise Cost and Control
  15. DatadogOct 2, 2026
    Key metrics for monitoring Databricks
  16. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 1, 2026
    Build Local AI Apps with C++ and NVIDIA TensorRT RTX Samples
  17. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 1, 2026
    What real time-to-first-token looks like on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference
  18. AWS Machine LearningSep 30, 2026
    Build a multi-agent music production pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Instances
  19. AWS ContainersSep 30, 2026
    How athenahealth modernized healthcare workloads with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
  20. NeonSep 30, 2026
    Lakebase Search: the retrieval primitive for agents on Neon
  21. AMD ROCmSep 30, 2026
    AIM: Unified User Experience from Profile Discovery to Deployment
  22. AMD ROCmSep 30, 2026
    Running MolmoAct2 Robot Policy on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Mini PC
  23. CoreWeaveSep 29, 2026
    Get Started with Kimi K3 on CoreWeave Dedicated Inference
  24. AWS Machine LearningSep 28, 2026
    Build real-time voice applications with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 1
  25. AWS Machine LearningSep 28, 2026
    Generate images and video with vLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI – Part 2
  26. LanceDBSep 26, 2026
    How Jev Compares to Other Rerankers for LanceDB Search
  27. AMD ROCmSep 25, 2026
    Local Quantization and Multi-Backend Deployment with AMD Quark on Strix Halo
  28. AWS Machine LearningSep 24, 2026
    Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI
  29. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 22, 2026
    Enabling Private High-Performance Production AI Inference with NVIDIA Confidential Computing
  30. Together AISep 22, 2026
    Canary rollouts: upgrade models in production without downtime
  31. LaunchDarklySep 21, 2026
    MLOps Solutions for Production Machine Learning
  32. vLLMSep 18, 2026
    Scaling Multi-GPU Video Captioning with PyNvVideoCodec and vLLM
  33. TigerBeetleSep 17, 2026
    High-Throughput OLTP in Three Simple Steps
  34. Pinterest EngineeringSep 10, 2026
    Building Pinterest’s VLM Serving Stack on NVIDIA Dynamo

Advanced

  1. CloudflareOct 13, 2026
    Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
  2. AWS Machine LearningOct 13, 2026
    Mixture-of-Experts kernel engineering on Amazon SageMaker AI
  3. Microsoft FoundryOct 13, 2026
    Azure Content Understanding Prebuilt Analyzers: packaging domain knowledge for document AI
  4. ClickHouseOct 13, 2026
    Chasing that 32 ms tail latency in ClickHouse
  5. Meta EngineeringOct 12, 2026
    Turning Opportunistic AI Inference Capacity Into Better Ads Recommendations
  6. Microsoft AzureOct 12, 2026
    Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
  7. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 9, 2026
    Deployment Isn't the Bottleneck: Inference Economics Is
  8. PyTorchOct 8, 2026
    Session-Aware Agentic Inference with NVIDIA Dynamo
  9. AWS Machine LearningOct 8, 2026
    Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
  10. AMD ROCmOct 8, 2026
    Pre-Training Hybrid LLMs from Scratch in Primus on AMD Instinct™ GPUs
  11. AMD ROCmOct 8, 2026
    DI Series: Serving Kimi-K3 MXFP4 Wide-EP Disaggregated on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X
  12. AMD ROCmOct 8, 2026
    AMD Instinct MI455X vs MI355X: A Technical Look at the Advancing AI 2026 Inference Numbers
  13. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 7, 2026
    Validate AI Factory Changes with Digital Twins and AI Agents
  14. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 7, 2026
    Faster Scientific Image Analysis with NVIDIA cuPhoton
  15. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 7, 2026
    Why does cosine similarity fail for semantic caching? Testing cosine, LLM prompts, and a purpose-built verifier: Jev
  16. PyTorchOct 6, 2026
    Modernizing Table Batched Embeddings with FBTriton
  17. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 6, 2026
    How DOCA GPUNetIO Unifies GPU-Initiated Networking Across the NVIDIA Software Stack
  18. PerconaOct 6, 2026
    DBTrail: Analytical Reports on Your MySQL Data, Without Running Them on MySQL – Part 1
  19. NVIDIA DeveloperOct 6, 2026
    Control How Your GPU Shares Work with Green Contexts
  20. AMD ROCmOct 6, 2026
    Completing the GPU Performance Picture: Understanding TAF Alongside Peak FLOPs and MAF
  21. DatabricksOct 5, 2026
    NEAREST BY Join: Scaling Vector Search in Databricks Runtime
  22. AI21 LabsOct 4, 2026
    From manual negotiation to automated scheduling: How AI21 manages its GPU fleet with Kueue
  23. PyTorchOct 2, 2026
    Building a High-Performance and Portable vLLM Linear Backend with Helion
  24. ArizeOct 2, 2026
    Prompt caching benchmark: high cache reuse doesn’t always mean lower cost
  25. ClickHouseOct 2, 2026
    What is direct I/O, and why does ClickHouse Managed Postgres use it for backups?
  26. PyTorchOct 1, 2026
    Optimizing Jagged Flash Attention with TLX: The Road Toward SOTA FA4 on Blackwell
  27. ClickHouseOct 1, 2026
    How LinkedIn extended ClickHouse from distributed tracing to metric discovery and analytics
  28. LanceDBOct 1, 2026
    How Jev Compares to Other Rerankers
  29. DigitalOcean TutorialsOct 1, 2026
    Multi-Tenant GPU Isolation: What Dedicated GPU Covers, and What It Doesn't
  30. AMD ROCmSep 30, 2026
    Automating Performance Bottleneck Identification with the TraceLens Agent
  31. Google for DevelopersSep 30, 2026
    Accelerating Spatio-Temporal Attention for Video Diffusion on TPUs
  32. DigitalOcean TutorialsSep 30, 2026
    How Naive Failover Between Inference Providers Makes Outages Worse
  33. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 29, 2026
    AI Native by Design: Lessons Learned from Building NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect
  34. AMD ROCmSep 29, 2026
    Unlocking Sim2Real for a Robotic Arm with RL Accelerated by AMD Instinct GPUs
  35. TursoSep 29, 2026
    From v0.7 to v0.8: How group commit changed Turso's tail latency
  36. vLLMSep 29, 2026
    Taking vLLM Apart: A Practical Guide to Disaggregated Serving
  37. turbopufferSep 29, 2026
    Why moving embedding inside turbopuffer drops search latency
  38. UbuntuSep 28, 2026
    How a missing kernel flag broke FIPS-certified containers in managed Kubernetes
  39. NVIDIA DeveloperSep 28, 2026
    How NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
  40. AMD ROCmSep 28, 2026
    Verl 0.9.0 on ROCm™ 10.0: Next-Generation RL Post-Training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs

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