Skywing: a platform for decentralized math computing
Skywing separates mathematical logic and execution infrastructure for decentralized mathematical computing in unreliable environments and supports asynchronous workflows.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure on ThecoreGrid covers the design, operation, and evolution of the foundational systems that power modern software at scale.
We explore compute, networking, and storage layers, along with virtualization, containers, and cloud platforms in highload environments. The focus is on production-grade engineering: reliability, fault tolerance, capacity planning, cost efficiency, and secure system design. Topics include Infrastructure as Code, automation, provisioning, multi-region setups, traffic routing, and failure recovery. We analyze real-world trade-offs and operational challenges, supported by BigTech practices, incident post-mortems, and lessons from large-scale infrastructure failures. You’ll find deep dives into observability, performance tuning, and platform reliability under dynamic workloads. Instead of basic setup guides, the Infrastructure tag delivers practical insights for platform engineers, DevOps teams, SREs, and architects responsible for building and maintaining robust, scalable, and efficient infrastructure systems.
EFD and quorums: why the number of votes does not guarantee independence
Structural Epistemic Cut in EFD-based quorum control: why more votes can still share one fault, and how DAQC enforces safer admission.
GPT-Live: how OpenAI separated live path and logic
OpenAI’s GPT-Live architecture: how to distinguish between the live path and application logic, reduce latency, and scale stateful voice interaction.
MCP Protocol Removes Session State
MCP protocol removes session state in the spec. How stateless design changes AWS scaling, observability, and migration.
AWS EKS Anywhere orchestration at scale
At-scale orchestration with AWS EKS Anywhere: how to centralize the management of on-premises clusters and servers using AWS Step Functions, Lambda, and DynamoDB.
Flux moves agent workloads to the cloud
DoorDash Flux moves agent workloads to the cloud: sandboxing, MCP gateway, playbooks, and access control for secure automation of engineering tasks.
Workload Identity Federation in GCP
Workload Identity Federation in GCP removes long-lived keys from CI/CD and external workloads, replacing secrets with short-lived federated access.
Data Mesh for AI Agents: How to Prepare the Data Layer
Data Engineering for AI agents: how data mesh, semantic models, and MCP tools help balance precision, security, and cost in enterprise systems.
GitFarm: how Uber eliminated local Git clones
GitFarm from Uber eliminates local Git clones in large monorepos and reduces client resources, speeding up checkout and Git workflows.
Predictive autoscaling for GPU in Kubernetes
Predictive autoscaling for GPU workloads in Kubernetes reduces the gap between traffic spikes and GPU provisioning. In this case, the system failed because reactive scaling was always late. The system encountered not a bug, but the physics of infrastructure. A critical service crashed under load rather than simply degrading: users experienced 15–20% errors, while Kubernetes … Read more