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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 5 posts
NATS Server 2.14 — Fast Batch Publish, Built-In Server Scheduling, and the Homework Due Before 2.15
NATS Server 2.14, released on April 30, 2026, adds fast batch publish — high-throughput batch publishing to JetStream with built-in flow control — cron-style recurring schedules with subject sampling, automatic conversio
2026-07-17 · 14 min read #messaging#nats#distributed-systems#release-notesEU Chat Control 1.0: what actually passed, and the client-side scanning question
On 9 July 2026 the European Parliament let a message-scanning regulation pass even though more MEPs in the room voted against it than for it. The label Chat Control hides two very different things: a voluntary derogation
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #privacy#encryption#eu-regulation#client-side-scanning#messagingThe Truth About Exactly-Once Semantics
What the three delivery guarantees (at-most-once, at-least-once, exactly-once) actually mean, why exactly-once delivery is fundamentally impossible while exactly-once processing is achievable through idempotency, dedupli
2026-06-28 · 13 min read #distributed-systems#messaging#reliabilitySecure Messaging in 2026 — Signal / Matrix Element X / SimpleX / Session / Briar / MLS RFC 9420 Deep Dive
In the spring of 2026, secure messaging no longer fits in one sentence. Signal remains the gold standard, now reinforced by Meredith Whittaker after the September 2024 board reshuffle and by PQXDH for post-quantum forwar
2026-05-16 · 29 min read #privacy#messaging#signal#matrix#element-xDistributed Messaging 2026 — Kafka 3.9 / NATS / Redpanda / Pulsar / RabbitMQ 4 / WarpStream Deep-Dive
The 2026 landscape of distributed messaging. Kafka 3.9 made KRaft the default and ZooKeeper is gone. WarpStream put the Kafka API on top of S3 and was acquired by Confluent. Redpanda pushes Kafka compatibility in C++, NA
2026-05-15 · 18 min read #messaging#distributed-systems#kafka#nats#redpanda