io_uring offloads CPU through asymmetric I/O
Asymmetric io_uring in Seastar: how offloading I/O to dedicated cores affects latency and throughput and where bottlenecks arise
Architecture and Infra
Architecture and Infra on ThecoreGrid covers the foundations of designing and operating scalable, reliable systems at BigTech level. This category brings together system design and infrastructure practices: distributed architectures, highload patterns, cloud-native platforms, and core layers such as compute, networking, and storage. We focus on real engineering decisions — how to balance reliability, performance, cost, and long-term system evolution. Topics include Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, multi-region deployments, traffic management, and platform design. Content is grounded in production experience: incident post-mortems, large-scale migrations, and lessons from operating infrastructure under heavy load. Instead of abstract theory, you get practical trade-offs, proven patterns, and insights drawn from real-world systems. Architecture & Infra is built for architects, backend and platform engineers, DevOps teams, and SREs responsible for complex distributed systems and mission-critical infrastructure.
AI Agents and Cloud Guardrails: The Speed Gap
AI agent security in the cloud: why guardrails are lagging behind API speed and how to move to event-driven monitoring instead of lagging billing
Data provenance without over-deletion in AI pipelines
Accurate data provenance at the record and token level bridges the gap in AI unlearning: how to find the forget set without mass data deletion. The problem arises at the moment of consent withdrawal by the author. Unlearning algorithms (e.g., NPO or RMU) expect a ready forget set, but in real pipelines, it does not … Read more
GDPR Edge Security for IoMT Without Compromises
GDPR edge security in IoMT requires shifting control to the network edge. The SEG approach demonstrates how to combine privacy-by-design and low latency without sacrificing efficiency. Remote monitoring systems for elderly patients (IoMT) face three simultaneous constraints. The data is classified as “sensitive” under GDPR and requires strict protection. Sensor-level devices are limited in energy … Read more
Distributed Model Counting without Bottlenecks
Distributed model counting with work-stealing: how gDMC reduces overhead and solves the load balancing problem in #SAT systems
MEV in DAG BFT Breaks Honest Ordering
MEV in DAG BFT: how Mysticeti creates transaction ordering bias and why DAG linearization becomes a critical architectural bottleneck
DNS routing for gRPC eliminates thundering herd
DNS routing for gRPC: how changing the Route 53 policy eliminated the thundering herd and distributed the load across 121 million connections without errors
ScyllaDB for Chat Memory in LangChain
ScyllaDB as a backend for LangChain addresses a key issue: preserving dialogue context in RAG systems and scaling without losing state. The problem does not manifest immediately — until the moment the RAG chatbot exceeds a single process. LLMs are inherently stateless: each request begins with an empty context unless the history is manually reproduced. … Read more
Kubernetes DRA Enhances Resource Control
Dynamic Resource Allocation Kubernetes: how DRA 1.36 changes resource scheduling, increases utilization, and manageability in clusters –>
Container Patterns as the Foundation of Architecture
Container patterns as the foundation of container orchestration: how coordination and architecture of distributed systems are built without excessive complexity.