Engineering Philosophy: Werner Vogels
Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, built the cloud on one assumption: everything fails all the time. Design for failure, minimize blast radius, and stay available through it.
Engineering & CraftWriting
Thoughts on design, development, AI infrastructure, and building products.
Engineering Philosophy: Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth built Ubuntu on one idea -- Linux for human beings, free software for everyone -- grounded in ubuntu: humanity to others, shipped on a clock.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Fei-Fei Li, Data Is the Foundation
Fei-Fei Li gave AI its eyes by building ImageNet -- betting that data at scale, not a cleverer model, was the missing ingredient, and that AI must stay human-centered.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Yann LeCun, Learning the World, Openly
Yann LeCun built deep vision on convolution, then bet that real intelligence comes from learning the world unsupervised and publishing it openly -- not bigger LLMs.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Radia Perlman
Radia Perlman invented the Spanning Tree Protocol and built networks that heal themselves -- loop-free, self-stabilizing, and correct even when nodes lie. Robustness as a first principle.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Geoffrey Hinton, Conviction Over Fashion
Geoffrey Hinton bet on brain-like neural networks through two AI winters when the field mocked them -- conviction over fashion, intuition over formalism.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Joanna Rutkowska
Joanna Rutkowska built Qubes OS on reasonable paranoia: you cannot make software bug-free, so assume compromise, distrust the infrastructure, and isolate the blast radius.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Jim Keller, Transistors Are Free
Jim Keller architected the chips behind AMD's comeback, the iPhone, Tesla's Autopilot and more -- by spending silicon to remove bottlenecks and rethinking from first principles.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton coined 'software engineering' and wrote the Apollo flight code that survived the 1202 alarm. Defensive design and error recovery.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Demis Hassabis, Solve Intelligence to Solve Everything
Demis Hassabis built general intelligence from first principles -- games as the proving ground, neuroscience as inspiration -- then pointed it at protein folding and won a Nobel.
Engineering & CraftEngineering Philosophy: Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir is the S in RSA and a master cryptanalyst -- he builds secure systems by also learning to break them. Attack to defend, turning clean number theory into mechanism.
Engineering & CraftApple's Translation Framework: Free, On-Device, and Sharper Than It Looks
Apple's Translation framework: free on-device translation via translationPresentation and TranslationSession, plus the offline-download edges demos skip.
AI & TechnologyExternal Publications
Technical writing published at Introl
Local LLM Hardware Pricing Guide 2025
Comprehensive hardware recommendations and cost analysis for running large language models locally.
H100 vs. H200 vs. B200: Choosing the Right NVIDIA GPUs for Your AI Workload
GPU selection guide comparing NVIDIA's latest datacenter accelerators for different AI workloads.
TPU Architecture: Complete Guide to Google's 7 Generations
Deep technical dive into Google's Tensor Processing Unit evolution from TPUv1 to TPUv5.
GPU Memory Pooling in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes
Resource sharing strategies for GPU clusters in containerized environments.
Ray Clusters: Distributed AI Computing Infrastructure
Guide to building and managing distributed AI computing with Ray framework.
DeepSeek V3 Open Source AI Cost Advantage
Analysis of open source LLM economics and DeepSeek's competitive positioning.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 600kW Racks 2027
Future datacenter power requirements and NVIDIA's next-generation GPU roadmap.
SMR Nuclear Power for AI Data Centers
Small modular reactor solutions for powering next-generation AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek MHC Architecture Breakthrough
Technical analysis of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Compression architecture innovations.
