AI infrastructure is crystallizing into a distinct discipline — one with its own hardware, scheduling, and observability stack. This post breaks down the layers, the patterns in production, and the skills engineers need to build it.
How eBPF and Cilium move packet filtering from user-space daemons into the Linux kernel itself — and why that rewrites the rules for Kubernetes networking performance, observability, and security.
Dynamo disaggregates prefill and decode, distributes KV cache across nodes, and routes traffic intelligently. Here’s what it is, how it works, and when to reach for it in production.
How to design an active-passive multi-cluster failover pattern on EKS that combines Linkerd’s transparent service mirroring with Crossplane’s composable infrastructure claims.
gVisor moves the Linux kernel into userspace to sandbox containers at the syscall boundary, trading raw throughput for a dramatically smaller attack surface.