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Why AI Giants are Abandoning the Public Cloud?
The companies building frontier AI are quietly abandoning generic public cloud infrastructure. They are pouring hundreds of billions into custom…
Apr 10
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Ashok Vishwakarma
Why Agentic AI requires Graph based Observability?
The industry is currently flooded with vendors claiming to have “solved” AI observability but when you view them through the lens of enterprise…
Apr 8
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Ashok Vishwakarma
The $20/$200 AI Subscription is going to be Dead?
They priced access to massive supercomputers like a Spotify subscription. You paid $20 or $200 a month, and in exchange, you got an all-you-can-eat…
Apr 2
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Ashok Vishwakarma
March 2026
A ₹500 ($5) course won't make you an AI Engineer
They claim that AI is replacing software engineers tomorrow, and if you don’t buy their “AI Mastery Guide” today, your career is over before it begins.
Mar 31
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Thought - Why Token Costs will Bankrupt your LLM Wrapper
If your COGS scales perfectly linearly with every single user click, you do not have a software business. You have a subsidized consulting firm.
Mar 26
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Do you really need a Vector Database for your AI Product?
Before you sign a massive SaaS contract for a dedicated vector engine, you need to understand the physics of the hardware you are renting.
Mar 24
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Thought - Why Postgres is a dangerous default
Nobody gets fired for choosing Postgres. It is the safest, most defensible technical decision you can make. Until it isn't. Especially when you are…
Mar 19
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Research - A Formal Threshold Model for B-Tree Performance Degradation Under Random Primary Keys in OLTP Systems
We prove that this degradation is a physical limitation of B-Tree mechanics under random insertion, compounded by Write Amplification Factor (WAF…
Mar 17
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Thought - Why Banks Can't "Just Rewrite" COBOL in Java/Python/Go?
This is technical debt. We are going to rewrite the Core Ledger in Java microservices. We will be cloud-native
Mar 12
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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Thought - Why Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) makes sense for AI Code Migration
Large Language Models are probabilistic text generators. They are not compilers. They do not possess an underlying, deterministic model of the code they…
Mar 10
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Ashok Vishwakarma
Deep Dive - How Kafka hit 1 Million write per second on a $40 HDD
Not NVMe. Not even SATA SSDs. Actual magnetic platters with mechanical arms. The kind of physical, spinning rust drives you can buy for $40 at Amazon.
Mar 5
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Ashok Vishwakarma
Report - How Andres Freund saves the Internet
The backdoor had been planted over 2.5 years by a nation-state actor who earned the trust of the maintainer, contributed legitimate code, and then…
Mar 3
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Ashok Vishwakarma
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