The 2026 refresh: 1M-token contexts, LoRA fine-tuning, RAG still the bread-and-butter. What each is best at, the cost math at realistic scale, hybrid patterns production uses, and why 'long context replaces RAG' got it wrong.
A practical guide to DevOps tooling for 2-10 person teams covering CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, error tracking, secrets management, feature flags, and incident management with real pricing.
Argo Rollouts replaces Kubernetes Deployments with a CRD that does weighted canary, metric-gated analysis, and automatic rollback. Production recipe, Prometheus AnalysisTemplates, and a side-by-side with Flagger.
Production LLM serving with vLLM 0.7, TGI 3.0, and NVIDIA Triton + TensorRT-LLM. Llama 3.1 70B H100 benchmarks, FP8 KV-cache numbers, $/1M token math, and a decision framework for picking the right server per team shape.
Real 8xH100 training-economics comparison across RunPod ($22.32/hr Secure Cloud), Vast.ai (spot $12.16/hr floor), and Lambda Labs (reserved $14.80/hr). MFU benchmarks, break-even math for spot vs reserved, interruption rates, and which provider wins per job shape.
Three observability philosophies compared at small, medium, and large scale: Grafana Cloud (OSS LGTM stack), Datadog (all-in-one SaaS), Honeycomb (event-based, debug-first). Real 2026 pricing, cardinality traps, and decision matrix for greenfield platform picks.
A practitioner comparison of the five dominant auth providers in 2026 -- Auth0, Clerk, Supertokens, WorkOS, and Supabase Auth -- with real pricing tiers, SSO connection math, SOC 2 / HIPAA / FedRAMP coverage, integration code samples, and a decision matrix that maps each vendor to a specific stack and scale.
Curated top 20 MCP servers across official Anthropic, vendor-official, community, and dev-tooling categories. Install commands, auth setup, use cases, costs, and the security gotchas nobody covers.
Claude Opus 4.7 hits 87.6% SWE-bench Verified at $5/$25 per million tokens. Full benchmarks vs Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, cache-math, and the migration checklist.
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