Kafka Queues (KIP-932) vs RabbitMQ vs SQS: Picking a Task Queue After Kafka 4.2
Kafka 4.2 made Queues for Kafka GA. How share groups compare with RabbitMQ and SQS on ordering, redelivery, scaling and cost for task queues.
Kubernetes Pod Certificates vs SPIFFE/SPIRE vs cert-manager: Choosing Workload mTLS in 2026
Pod certificates went stable in Kubernetes v1.37. How built-in pod certs compare with SPIFFE/SPIRE and cert-manager on trust, rotation and cost.
MIG on Jetson Thor: GPU Partitioning for Mixed-Criticality Robotics in JetPack 7.2
JetPack 7.2 brings MIG to Jetson Thor: two isolated partitions of 12 and 8 SMs. How to split perception, control and GenAI without latency jitter.
OPC UA FX Controller-to-Device vs Controller-to-Controller: What C2D Adds in 2026
OPC UA FX finished C2C and is extending to Controller-to-Device. How C2D differs from C2C, what Parts 81 and 84 add, and what it means for IIoT.
Eclipse 4diac 3.3: EtherCAT, Event Sequence View, and Headless Validation for IEC 61499
4diac 3.3 shipped 9 Sept 2026: core EtherCAT in FORTE, an Event Sequence view, and headless OCL validation. What changes for IEC 61499 teams.
LoRA vs QLoRA vs Full Fine-Tuning vs Distillation: Choosing a Method for CPU-Deployed Small Models in 2026
Which fine-tuning method for a small model you will deploy on CPU: VRAM budgets, the merge-target trap worth 14 points, and when distillation is actually worth it.
Which Small Language Models Actually Run on CPU in 2026: 11 Models Compared
Eleven small language models compared for CPU-only inference in 2026: real Q4 file sizes, official GGUF availability, licences and the memory-bandwidth ceiling.
Ambient IoT in 3GPP Release 19 vs Release 20: Battery-Free Device Architecture for 2026 and Beyond
3GPP Ambient IoT explained: Release 19 device types, backscatter and RF energy harvesting, what Release 20 adds, and where battery-free IoT actually fits.
OPC UA Companion Specifications as MCP Tools: Wiring Industrial Semantics into AI Agents (2026)
OPC UA has 400+ companion specifications of industrial semantics. How to expose them to AI agents as MCP tools and RAG corpora - architecture, pitfalls and safety.
LeRobotDataset v3.0: Chunked Parquet, MP4 Shards and Streaming for Robot Learning Data at Scale (2026)
LeRobotDataset v3.0 replaces per-episode files with chunked Parquet and MP4 shards plus streaming. What changes for robot-learning data pipelines at OXE scale.