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Architecture

gVisor: sandboxing for multi-tenant containers

gVisor interpone un kernel en espacio de usuario entre el contenedor y el anfitrión. Después de años en producción en Google y adopción creciente en plataformas serverless, merece una lectura honesta sobre cuándo compensa frente a microVMs y runtimes clásicos.

Technology

Microsoft Garnet: a high-performance cache alternative

Garnet es el servidor de caché abierto por Microsoft Research que habla el protocolo de Redis pero está escrito en .NET 8 con un núcleo de almacenamiento orientado a hardware moderno. Tras casi dos años en público, muestra números interesantes y una arquitectura que merece mirarse con calma, aunque el ecosistema Redis siga siendo más maduro.

Technology

OSV-Scanner: vulnerabilities with a source of truth

OSV-Scanner se ha convertido en una referencia silenciosa para escanear dependencias open source. Su valor no está en el escaneo en sí, que muchas herramientas ofrecen, sino en su conexión directa con OSV.dev como fuente de verdad. Un análisis de por qué esto importa más de lo que parece.

Technology

Unikraft and unikernels: the promise that returns

Unikernels were promised as the future of cloud deployment back in 2015, then faded into obscurity soon after. Ten years later, Unikraft has reached a stable release and reads like a more mature, more useful take on that same idea. A review of what has changed.

Methodologies

Carbon-aware computing: now the default behavior

Four years ago it was an academic curiosity. Today, scheduling workloads by grid carbon intensity is a built-in option in Kubernetes, in several cloud provider services, and in CI tooling. We look at what genuinely changed and what is still more promise than practice.

Technology

NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs: what changes for training

Los primeros racks GB200 NVL72 llevan meses en manos de los hiperescalares y ya empiezan a verse mediciones públicas. La generación Blackwell no es una mejora incremental sobre Hopper, sino un cambio en la forma de entrenar modelos grandes. Repasamos qué cambia y qué no.

Architecture

Kubernetes 1.34: a summary for teams with little time

Kubernetes 1.34 ships with Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) graduating to stable, scheduler improvements, and CEL-based mutating admission policies that replace webhooks. A practical rundown of what is safe to upgrade now, what can wait, and what actually changes for teams running production clusters.

Industry 4.0

Private 5G networks: enterprise deployments in 2025

After years of pilots, private 5G is starting to show up in plants, ports, and warehouses with cases that actually work. What changed in 2025, which deployments make sense, and where WiFi 6E or a wired network still win the comparison.

Methodologies

Continuous profiling with eBPF in production

Continuous profiling with eBPF samples every process's execution stack every few milliseconds without touching the code, then stores the history so you can compare last week's performance with today's. The cost measured in production runs between 1% and 3% of CPU, and it pays off most in databases, API gateways and high-concurrency services.

Methodologies

VEX: filtering vulnerability noise with context

Después de años acumulando SBOMs, el cuello de botella es filtrar qué CVEs afectan de verdad. VEX aparece como la pieza que convierte el ruido en señal, y en 2025 empieza a tener adopción real en pipelines de supply chain.

Artificial Intelligence

NPU in the PC: faster, cheaper local AI

Qualcomm, Intel and AMD Copilot+ processors have normalised the presence of an NPU in everyday PCs. A 40 TOPS NPU can run quantised Phi-3 Mini drawing just 5-10 W, versus 40-50 W for a laptop GPU doing the same task. What actually changes for running AI models locally, and when it is worth it.