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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 8 posts
Open Source Worth Watching Right Now (6) What Star Counts Do Not Tell You
A star count is a popularity metric, not a risk metric. This post lays out the signals you actually have to check before you bring an open source project into production: recent commits and release cadence, issue respons
2026-08-12 · 6 min read #open-source#governance#supply-chain#risk#devopsThe Generational Shift in Container Infrastructure — What Eleven Projects Left Behind
Eleven projects that were once standard parts of a container infrastructure and have since been replaced, documented using only official notices and repository archive status as evidence. rkt, dockershim, Classic Swarm,
2026-08-12 · 10 min read #open-source#kubernetes#container#docker#infrastructureWhat Replaces Technology — And How to Check Whether Your Stack Sits on That Trajectory
The final part of this series on open source projects that gave up their place. Cutting across the thirty-odd projects covered in the previous three parts, it distils five forces that replace technology: platform absorpt
2026-08-12 · 7 min read #open-source#architecture#license#migration#governanceThe Generational Shift in Data Stores and Queues — Licenses, Forks and the Apache Attic
Ten projects in the data layer that gave up their place or had their distribution terms changed, documented using only official announcements and Apache Attic records as evidence. The license changes at Redis, Elasticsea
2026-08-12 · 9 min read #open-source#database#kafka#redis#elasticsearchLicenses and Deployment: Reading the Types and Verifying Quantized Builds
The short identifier in an open model license field is a table of contents; the actual terms live in the full text. This post organizes the license types actually encountered on 2026-08-12, what community licenses and no
2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai#llm#huggingface#open-source-llm#licenseHow to Read a Hugging Face Model Card: What to Trust and What to Doubt
Six fields on a Hugging Face model card actually carry decision weight: license, parameter count, context length, intended use, limitations, and training data. This post explains what each field means and what it hides,
2026-08-12 · 7 min read #ai#llm#huggingface#open-source-llm#model-cardHow to Actually Read a Model Card — Pulling Out What You Need in 5 Minutes
A model card is written in a way that, read top to bottom, keeps you from finding what you need. The benchmark table takes up half the screen while the license and chat template pass by in a single line. This post flips
2026-08-02 · 19 min read #llm#huggingface#model-card#license#tokenizerThe 2026 Open Source License Shift — A Deep Dive on the BSL Wave: Elastic, Redis, HashiCorp, Sentry, Valkey, OpenTofu
Since MongoDB moved to SSPL in 2018, Elastic in 2021, HashiCorp in 2023, and Redis in 2024 have all left Apache/MIT for non-OSI licenses like BSL, SSPL, and RSALv2. The result has been a stream of community forks (OpenSe
2026-05-16 · 31 min read #open-source#license#bsl#sspl#agpl