Workshop

Practical guides and lessons from building.

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AI

Building a Real-Time Talking Head on a Modest GPU

The engineering constraints behind a talking-head interface: choosing open models, fitting VRAM, sustaining frame rate and keeping a conversation responsive.

Sep 13, 20266 min read

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Infrastructure

Running Kubernetes Across Regions

One cluster or several?

Sep 13, 20267 min read

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Infrastructure

Choosing a GPU Cloud Beyond the Hourly Rate

Runpod, SaladCloud and serverless alternatives charge for different things.

Sep 13, 20266 min read

Infrastructure

Why We Moved Our Workloads to Talos

A smaller operating system, reproducible nodes and fewer ways for infrastructure to drift.

Sep 13, 20265 min read

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Strategy

Inference Economics

From provider tokens to product credits: pricing requests, placing the debit, and comparing API and self-hosted costs.

Feb 5, 20264 min read

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Strategy

Build, Buy, or Tolerate

A decision note for choosing which problems deserve custom engineering, which deserve a supplier, and which can wait.

Oct 3, 20254 min read

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Strategy

The Fine-Tuning Decision

A practical evaluation sequence for deciding whether a task needs better context, a better prompt or a trained model adaptation.

Jul 9, 20254 min read