Exchange Matching Engine Architecture: Low-Latency Order Matching (2026)
How an exchange matching engine works: the limit order book, price-time priority, deterministic single-threaded matching, sequencing, and sub-microsecond design.
Kafka KRaft in Production: Migrating Off ZooKeeper — A Hands-On Guide (2026)
A hands-on Kafka KRaft tutorial: the metadata quorum, migrating a ZooKeeper cluster to KRaft, controller sizing, rollback, and operating KRaft in production in 2026.
The WebAssembly Component Model on the Server: Wasm vs Containers (2026)
An architecture decision record on the WebAssembly Component Model server-side: WASI Preview 2, cold-start, isolation, and when Wasm beats containers in 2026.
Agent Benchmarks in 2026: SWE-bench Verified, GAIA, and tau-bench
A deep dive into 2026 AI agent benchmarks: SWE-bench Verified, GAIA, and tau-bench — what they measure, how they leak, and how to read agent leaderboards honestly.
Constrained Decoding: Architecture for Guaranteed-Valid LLM Output (2026)
How constrained decoding guarantees valid LLM output: grammars, FSAs, token masking, JSON-schema enforcement, and where structured generation breaks in production.
Software-Defined Manufacturing: The Virtual PLC and Container-Based Control in 2026
Why software-defined manufacturing and the virtual PLC are reshaping the plant floor in 2026: containerized control, real-time Linux, IEC 61499, and vendor moves.
NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA): A Hands-On Second-Channel Monitoring Setup (2026)
A hands-on NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) tutorial: the second monitoring channel, verification of request, a read-only OPC UA diode, and edge analytics without touching the DCS.
IEC 61499 vs IEC 61131-3: Distributed Control for Industry 4.0 (2026)
IEC 61499 vs IEC 61131-3 compared: event-driven function blocks vs scan-cycle PLC logic, portability, distribution, tooling, and a decision matrix for modern control.
Ethernet-APL Reference Architecture: Two-Wire Ethernet for Process Automation (2026)
An Ethernet-APL reference architecture for process plants: 10BASE-T1L physical layer, power over two wires, intrinsic safety zones, switches, and OPC UA field integration.
DeepSeek V4 Explained: Architecture, Sparse Attention, Benchmarks, and Deployment (2026)
DeepSeek V4 explained: the 1.6T-parameter MoE architecture, Compressed Sparse Attention, 1M-token context, SWE-bench and reasoning benchmarks, pricing, and how to deploy it.