A monthly reading roundup - no chasing every model, no top-50 lists, no marketing. One thread running through it all: the best model on the planet can be switched off on a Friday afternoon, so the real asset is what you build around it. You lease the model, but the process is yours.
Diffusion models became de facto standard in image generation. While remarkably powerful, they rely on a multi-step process of iterative denoising, which takes time. Text generation is also processed in a sequential manner, however the text can be streamed and visualized token by token, giving a natural, real-time feeling, similar to how humans read or write a text. With images, we must wait for the final denoising step to complete before a usable result appears. This makes optimizing diffusion models for speed and efficiency a critical challenge.
Canton Network is becoming increasingly popular in the fintech space. Here is what you need to know as an engineer willing to integrate and build on this distibuted ledger.
Interview with Krzysztof Romanowski, Head of Development Productivity at VirtusLab Software engineering loves process, structure, best practices, and architectural purity. Tooling engineering often lives somewhere else entirely - in edge cases, uncomfortable tradeoffs, and systems that only work because somebody deeply understands how they break. We sat down with Krzysztof Romanowski to talk about why tooling engineers often think very differently from the rest of the industry.
A slightly unsettling realization hit us at VirtusLab not long ago - our collective list of starred GitHub repositories had quietly ballooned into something that could generously be called "a problem." Instead of pretending it wasn't happening, we decided to lean into it: every two weeks, we pick a trending open-source project, pull the hood off, and tell you what we find underneath. We focus on fresh, relatively unknown repos - not the usual suspects that everybody and their tech newsletter already covered (because let's be honest, you don't need us for that).
For years, the industry moved away from monorepos toward microservices and smaller repositories. Recently, however, the conversation has started to shift again - and AI may be one of the reasons. As AI tools become part of everyday development workflows, the way engineers interact with large codebases is changing. Piotr Kukiełka shares his perspective on how large codebases work in practice and why AI might influence how companies think about monorepos.
Learn how insurers can secure AI agent platforms through threat modeling frameworks like OWASP, MAESTRO, and MITRE ATLAS. This guide covers prompt injection risks, trust boundaries, and compliance with DORA and EU AI Act.
Explore how MCP transforms JVM tools like WildFly and Ghidra into LLM-driven operations, diagnostics, and reverse engineering servers. Discover how agents can now run diagnostics, decompile malware, and even query applications—all via chat.
Platform engineering builds Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to simplify infrastructure management, improve developer experience (DX), and boost productivity through self-service capabilities.
This article will guide you through a notable subset of Bazelʼs querying features backed by examples. These are useful for debugging, exploration, and tooling. We’ll start with basic Bazel queries with target patterns, then we will move on to demonstrating Bazel aquery and cquery.
The micro frontend architecture gives engineering teams flexibility in developing and maintaining different parts of the application. However, this comes with drawbacks, such as an increased total size of the code and an additional layer of complexity. In this article, we will go through the pros and cons of this architecture and share our recommendations for implementing it in your project.
There is more than one way to build a micro frontend architecture. The most sensible, and popular, is via the appropriate framework. If you're short on time, here's our quick take: single-spa is likely the framework you'll want for your project right now. It is light, fast and reliable.
