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.
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.
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.
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.
Flink 2.2 ML_PREDICT and VECTOR_SEARCH: Running Model Inference Inside a Stream
Flink 2.2 adds VECTOR_SEARCH and Table API ML_PREDICT for in-stream inference. How they work, where they break, and when to keep inference outside.
Matter 1.5 Cameras: WebRTC Streaming, Privacy Zones, and What Thread 1.4 Changes
Matter 1.5 adds cameras: live A/V over WebRTC, two-way audio, PTZ, privacy zones, local or cloud recording. Plus what Thread 1.4 changed in 2026.
Yocto on Jetson vs Ubuntu L4T: Building Production Edge AI Images with OE4T
NVIDIA now officially supports Yocto on Jetson via OE4T. How a Yocto image compares with Ubuntu L4T on footprint, reproducibility and attack surface.
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.