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NUMA
https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/linux-kernel-numa/
Published: September 21, 2026 07:00
In the previous article
we followed a packet all the way in from the wire and all the way back out. At every step something was reading or writing memory — the page the driver handed the card, the skb wrapped around it, the buffer the bytes were finally…
Model Management
https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/kronk-model-management/
Published: September 15, 2026 07:00
The previous article
went through the Kronk SDK: a batching engine, a conversation cache, and a pile of workarounds behind a very small public API. All of it rested on three assumptions: that the model file was already on disk, that somebody had chosen a…
Understanding Testcontainers: The Ryuk Reaper
https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/testcontainers-ryuk-reaper/
Published: September 7, 2026 07:00
If you’ve used Testcontainers in any language (Go, Java, .NET, Python, Node, Rust), you’ve probably noticed an extra container hanging around in your docker ps output while your tests run. Its image is testcontainers/ryuk, and its name follows a pattern…