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Cloud Native & Open Source

How and Why We Bought 4x DGX Sparks

In this post I'll share how and why we (OpenFaaS Ltd) bought 4x DGX Sparks for our team, and what we've learned from it. Having operated an RTX 6000...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 on LLM, LOCALAI, AGENTS, ...

Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool

We've all heard people say that local Qwen 27B or 35-A3B is "near-Opus level", but I have receipts from a software business and open source projects,...

JUNE 17, 2026 on LLM, LOCALAI, AGENTS

I wrote a replacement for GitHub's code review bot

I wrote a replacement for GitHub's code review bot. But it's not as crazy as it sounds, in 2016 I created a successful alternative a de facto industr...

NOVEMBER 18, 2025 on GITHUB, LLM, AGENT, ...

Preview: Slice Up Bare-Metal with Slicer

By popular request, we're releasing Slicer, our much used internal tool from OpenFaaS Ltd for efficiently slicing up bare metal into microVMs. > Sin...

AUGUST 30, 2025 on LINUX, SELF-HOSTING, WORK, ...

I Bought An N100 Mini PC, Then Another

I have bought dozens of Raspberry Pis over the years, but I'm now turning to the Mini PC for R&D work. The Intel N100 is a low-power processor with...

AUGUST 18, 2025 on LINUX, SELF-HOSTING, WORK, ...
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