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2026-11-11 | TLX: make warp orchestration explicit in the program

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Producer/consumer pipelines, TLX abstractions and the scope of Meta’s three production examples.

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November 202658 NOTES
Nov 11, 20262026-11-11 | NVIDIA Snapshot: reuse initialized state for replica recovery
Nov 11, 20262026-11-11 | LLDB across CPUs and GPUs: one session, separate address spaces
Nov 11, 20262026-11-11 | Agent Substrate: suspend sessions without dedicating warm workers
Nov 10, 20262026-11-10 | TPU Sync: asynchronous model-state movement across memory tiers
Nov 10, 20262026-11-10 | Grafana Watchers: calibrate once, make one narrow decision per check
Nov 10, 20262026-11-10 | Evaluating AI SRE: separate diagnosis, evidence, and operational responsibility
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | vLLM Stable ABI: decoupling engine upgrades from rebuilds
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | Cache-aware model routing: switching has a state cost
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | FrontierCS 2: restoring the evaluator’s control of measurement
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | Prompt-cache misses: tracing costs to prefixes and API routes
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | FETCh: connecting formal specifications to production events
Nov 8, 20262026-11-08 | Opus 5.5: reading the cost curve and the model actually serving a task
Nov 7, 20262026-11-07 | Reshard: transfer the shards RL inference actually needs
Nov 7, 20262026-11-07 | Agent memory: separate capture, correction and retrieval
Nov 7, 20262026-11-07 | Bits Investigation: simpler loops and tool-side evidence processing
Nov 6, 20262026-11-06 | Kinference: a control plane for caches, queues, and tenant policies
Nov 6, 20262026-11-06 | Radar on SREGym: connecting diagnosis and repair through structured context
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | JITEngine: different optimizations for the same model on different Macs
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | NeMo: turning trace evidence into testable harness repairs
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | NVIDIA cluster agents: cross-layer investigation with read-only access
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | Model routing: establish a genuinely cheaper execution path
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | Azure AFPD: prediction must connect to migration and repair
Nov 5, 20262026-11-05 | Polymorphic Inference: Tuning for Changing Workloads
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | NVIDIA Attribution: Traceable Diagnosis Across Cascading Failures
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | Scaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 1
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | F3 Lightning: How Meta Accelerates Ads ML Features to Production at Scale
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | Pika H3 Flex in FastVideo: 7x Faster, and Near Real Time in 4-bit
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | open-flapping-airplanes: reproducing the flapping airplanes megakernel
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | Progress on provable inference for large language models
Nov 4, 20262026-11-04 | When Quantized KV Cache Quietly Sends Attention Back to the CPU
Nov 3, 20262026-11-03 | How Cloudflare Reduced DNS Build Work While Preserving Correctness
Nov 3, 20262026-11-03 | HiCache Across Multi-Parallelism and Distributed Serving
Nov 2, 20262026-11-02 | agent-desktop: Identity and Retry Evidence for Desktop Actions
Nov 1, 20262026-11-01 | Using Agent Traces to Improve the Agent Itself
Nov 1, 20262026-11-01 | The Cross-Layer State Chain Behind Kubernetes API Timeouts
Nov 1, 20262026-11-01 | GPUDirect Storage Diagnostics: Deterministic Checks and Agent Orchestration
Nov 1, 20262026-11-01 | How the DeepSeek Prototype Manages Ongoing Work, Authority, and Recovery
Nov 1, 20262026-11-01 | Can Automated Red Teams Find Training-Data Monitoring Gaps?
October 202691 NOTES
Oct 31, 20262026-10-31 | Using GPU Weights as the Parent for Delta Sync
Oct 31, 20262026-10-31 | Build a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo
Oct 30, 20262026-10-30 | How vLLM supports sparse attention and cross-layer KV sharing
Oct 30, 20262026-10-30 | Meta uses two test-generation paths to catch risky changes
Oct 29, 20262026-10-29 | PyTorch 2.15 Release Blog
Oct 29, 20262026-10-29 | Meta Andromeda: Powering the Next Generation of Ads Retrieval Through Model-System Co-Design
Oct 29, 20262026-10-29 | Training SWE agents with Miles on MI355X: taming long-tail trajectories and complex sandbox coordination
Oct 29, 20262026-10-29 | GKE networking dataplane for large agentic AI workloads
Oct 29, 20262026-10-29 | Behind the scenes, two months later: How we ship Google Agent Skills like products
Oct 28, 20262026-10-28 | SGLang: when is a terminated request’s KV memory reusable?
Oct 28, 20262026-10-28 | miniTE: align numerics, learning, and complete RL cost
Oct 28, 20262026-10-28 | A Lean tokenizer prototype: make token preservation explicit
Oct 28, 20262026-10-28 | A fleet-wide KV index: where a prefix lives changes its value
Oct 28, 20262026-10-28 | Cloudflare’s KV exposure: why HTTP 200 missed a request-isolation failure
Oct 27, 20262026-10-27 | Restore GPU Jobs While Faulty Nodes Are Repaired
Oct 27, 20262026-10-27 | Bronto: Bound the Scope and Budget of an Alert Investigator
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | vLLM at Rack Scale: CPU Costs After Wide Expert Parallelism
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | LAB: Designing for Behavior After Model Failover
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | Testing Kamaji and HAMi Tenant Scheduling Without GPUs
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | An AI SRE Baseline: Better Context for the Agent You Have
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | Reducing Agent Telemetry While Preserving Operational Answers
Oct 25, 20262026-10-25 | Agent Anomaly Detection: Asynchronous Auditing of Session Behavior
Oct 24, 20262026-10-24 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: Low-Precision Cache Across the Serving Stack
Oct 24, 20262026-10-24 | Why an Agent Kept Going: Resampling an Incident
Oct 24, 20262026-10-24 | Habitat: Balancing Multi-Tenant Isolation and Latency
Oct 24, 20262026-10-24 | GLM-5.3 Long Context: Splitting Query Work and KV Capacity
Oct 24, 20262026-10-24 | Training Containment Beyond the Host
Oct 23, 20262026-10-23 | TorchTitan: Shared Model Code Needs Shared Numerical Evidence
Oct 23, 20262026-10-23 | SGLang Trainium Beta: Separating RL Generation and Training Hardware
Oct 23, 20262026-10-23 | Minerva Connects AI-Cluster Telemetry to Job-Level Diagnosis
Oct 23, 20262026-10-23 | METR Red Teaming: Monitoring Coverage Must Follow the Execution Chain
Oct 23, 20262026-10-23 | Grafana AI: From Continuous Observation to Reviewable Patches
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | London Cloud Outage: Failover Depends on Capacity and Control Paths
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | Autoscaling Recovery: Measuring the Wait with MTSS
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | vLLM TorchTPU: Reusing the Serving Control Plane
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | Thin Orchestrator: Moving Domain Reasoning Out of the Router
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | Prometheus: Making Large-Cluster Failures Recoverable
Oct 21, 20262026-10-21 | LocalPay: Making Payment Failures Repeatable Locally
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | Journey SLOs: measuring probe availability and real experience
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | Grafana Knowledge Graph: starting investigations from entity relationships
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | Adaptive Telemetry: which evidence survives cost reduction
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | Unattended Agents: Seven Failure Scenarios to Validate Before Release
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | Agent Skills: Does Following Instructions Actually Help?
Oct 20, 20262026-10-20 | TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch Integration and Its Compatibility Boundaries
Oct 19, 20262026-10-19 | Jev Diagnosis: Evidence Defines the Limits of Inexpensive Judgments
Oct 19, 20262026-10-19 | Elastic EP: Restricting Scaling Pauses to Topology Handover
Oct 19, 20262026-10-19 | Cloudflare Review Agents: Checking Finding Quality After Cutting Costs
Oct 16, 20262026-10-16 | LMCache MP Coordinator: Finding Caches Across Servers
Oct 16, 20262026-10-16 | Kimi K3 on MI355X: From State Reuse to Kernel Scheduling
Oct 16, 20262026-10-16 | Specialized Kimi K3 Decode: Speed and Validation Boundaries
Oct 15, 20262026-10-15 | Scout: Post-Training for Evidence-Based SRE Investigations
Oct 14, 20262026-10-14 | Claude Agent Observability: Bring Execution Into Existing OTel Systems
Oct 13, 20262026-10-13 | Scion: How coding agents change source-control scaling
Oct 12, 20262026-10-12 | Building an AI SRE: The Engineering Beyond an Answer
Oct 8, 20262026-10-08 | Dynamo: Scheduling Agent Inference and KV Cache by Session
Oct 8, 20262026-10-08 | Google AQuA: Finding Quality Issues in Production Traces
Oct 7, 20262026-10-07 | PAI: What Agent Monitoring Needs from Telemetry
Oct 3, 20262026-10-03 | GPU Cluster Readiness: Validate the Workload, Not Only the Components
Oct 1, 20262026-10-01 | Incident Replay: Can the Agent See Enough Evidence?
August 20264 NOTES