DNS cache memory: 5 optimizations in Big Pineapple
DNS cache memory in Big Pineapple: how five storage changes cut footprint, improved locality, and reduced lookup latency at Cloudflare scale.
Cloud-Native
Cloud-Native on ThecoreGrid explores how to design, run, and scale resilient systems built for dynamic cloud environments.
We cover practical architecture patterns around containers, Kubernetes, service discovery, configuration management, autoscaling, and immutable infrastructure. The focus is on production realities: multi-cluster operations, reliability under failure, cost control, observability, and secure workload isolation. You’ll find deep technical analysis of platform engineering, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, traffic management, rollout strategies, and day-2 operations in highload systems. Instead of basic tutorials, we break down trade-offs between portability and provider-native services, speed and governance, flexibility and operational complexity. Content is curated from BigTech practices, real incident post-mortems, and hard lessons from cloud migrations at scale. The Cloud-Native tag is built for architects, platform and backend engineers, DevOps teams, and SREs who need robust, maintainable, and scalable cloud infrastructure for mission-critical products.
AI Architecture: 4 Layers to Production
AI architecture for enterprise: 4 layers of the production stack, trade-offs between managed API and self-hosting, integration, serving, and operations.
Agent Optimization in Foundry: Request Economics
Agent optimization in Microsoft Foundry begins not with reducing token cost, but with the price of a successful outcome. For an agentic system, this is more important because one result often requires multiple model requests. The main issue here is not the model itself, but that a prototype can easily become the production default. In … Read more
MetaRoCE and Ethernet for AI Infrastructure
MetaRoCE for AI Infrastructure: How Offloading Intelligence to the NIC Helps Ethernet Maintain Throughput, Low Tail Latency, and Graceful Recovery.
Retained bridge share for AWS Organizations
Retained bridge share in AWS Organizations: how to preserve AWS Lake Formation permissions when migrating accounts and not lose the control plane.
POWERSLIDER: dynamic power cap for LLM serving
Dynamic power caps for LLM serving: how POWERSLIDER distributes power across stages, maintains goodput, and withstands grid demand response.
MetaRoCE for AI Infrastructure on Ethernet
MetaRoCE for Ethernet-based AI infrastructure: how Meta moves intelligence into the NIC, eliminates PFC, and creates a loss-resilient transport for million-GPU scale.
AI Security in Production: Roblox Prompt to Prod
AI Security in Production at Roblox: how sandboxing, guardrails, and exemplars help safely lead AI agents from prompt to production.
Alloy central gateway: how to avoid dropping the telemetry stream
A central gateway for full telemetry: sizing, load testing, HPA, WAL, and GOMEMLIMIT in a production scenario—with no blind spots.
Automated RCA in microservices at Atlassian
Automated RCA in microservices turns metrics, logs, and traces into ranked root cause hypotheses for faster incident validation and cleaner diagnosis