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Leadership Debt: The Hidden Liability Sinking Your Team

Leadership

Leadership Debt: The Hidden Liability Sinking Your Team

Indecisive leadership creates "Leadership Debt," a hidden liability that stalls projects, demotivates teams, and cripples innovation. Building psychological safety and contextual decision-making systems is key to high-performing engineering teams.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 29 Aug 2025
Beyond the Buzzword: A Better Playbook for Engineering Team Feedback

Leadership

Beyond the Buzzword: A Better Playbook for Engineering Team Feedback

Radical Candor alone can backfire if trust and safety are missing. Build resilient engineering teams by focusing first on psychological safety and the TAPPs pillars: Trust, Autonomy, Purpose, and Psychological Safety. Move beyond buzzwords—become a cultural architect.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 28 Aug 2025
The Fabric Schism is Over: Why Your Next Move Should Be Towards Open Ethernet

Network

The Fabric Schism is Over: Why Your Next Move Should Be Towards Open Ethernet

The painful choice between proprietary performance and open economics is over. The fabric schism has ended. As performance equalizes, the overwhelming TCO and strategic advantages of open Ethernet make it the only logical path forward for AI at scale.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 26 Aug 2025
Blueprint for an AI Supercluster: A Reference Architecture for 100,000+ Accelerators

Network

Blueprint for an AI Supercluster: A Reference Architecture for 100,000+ Accelerators

How do you actually build a 100,000-GPU cluster? This blueprint outlines a practical reference architecture: a hybrid model using proprietary links for scale-up and open UEC Ethernet for the massive scale-out, all tied together by the DPU.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 21 Aug 2025
How To: Use Kubernetes Registry Remapping to Redirect Bitnami Images to Bitnami Legacy as a Temporary Migration Mitigation

Kubernetes

How To: Use Kubernetes Registry Remapping to Redirect Bitnami Images to Bitnami Legacy as a Temporary Migration Mitigation

Bitnami is moving older container images from docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy in August 2025. Use Kubernetes containerd registry remapping via a DaemonSet to transparently redirect image pulls, ensuring smooth migration without immediate manifest changes.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 18 Aug 2025
Performance-Adjusted TCO: The Real Math Behind Choosing Your AI Network

Network

Performance-Adjusted TCO: The Real Math Behind Choosing Your AI Network

The most expensive network isn't always the best. As open Ethernet closes the performance gap, the real math comes down to Performance-Adjusted TCO. When speed is equal, the lower cost of hardware and people becomes the deciding factor.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 18 Aug 2025
From Monolith to Mosaic: How Composable AI is Redefining Enterprise Value

Artificial Intelligence

From Monolith to Mosaic: How Composable AI is Redefining Enterprise Value

Enterprise AI is shifting from giant, costly models to efficient, specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) working in teams. This composable approach boosts accuracy, cuts costs, enhances privacy, and enables on-premise deployment—transforming AI into a competitive advantage for 2026 and beyond.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 15 Aug 2025
The Vendor Wars: NVIDIA's Integrated Fortress vs. The Open Ecosystem Alliance

Network

The Vendor Wars: NVIDIA's Integrated Fortress vs. The Open Ecosystem Alliance

The battle for AI networking is a clash of philosophies. NVIDIA's integrated fortress offers turnkey performance at a proprietary cost. The Open Alliance bets on collaboration and open standards. Your choice is more than tech—it's a strategic vote.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 14 Aug 2025
Meet the DPU: The "Third Pillar" of Compute That Makes AI Clouds Possible

Network

Meet the DPU: The "Third Pillar" of Compute That Makes AI Clouds Possible

Your multi-million dollar GPUs are wasting time on chores. The DPU is the third pillar of compute, a specialized processor that offloads infrastructure tasks, freeing up your CPU/GPU and enabling the entire business model of the secure AI cloud.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 12 Aug 2025
OpenLLMetry vs. OpenInference: The Observability Stack Your LLM App Needs

Observability

OpenLLMetry vs. OpenInference: The Observability Stack Your LLM App Needs

Your app looks fine on the surface, but users say it's failing. Traditional logs can't explain why. Enter OpenLLMetry and OpenInference—tools that bring clarity to AI observability by capturing rich, standardized telemetry from your LLM stack.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 08 Aug 2025
Packet Spraying & Flexible Order: The UEC's Secret Weapons for AI Networking

Network

Packet Spraying & Flexible Order: The UEC's Secret Weapons for AI Networking

Traditional networks create traffic jams. Ultra Ethernet's secret weapons are packet spraying and flexible order—a new design that eliminates hotspots and unlocks the full power of the fabric by breaking all the old rules of packet delivery.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 06 Aug 2025
Not Your Standard Ethernet: The Industry-Wide Revolution to Dethrone InfiniBand

Network

Not Your Standard Ethernet: The Industry-Wide Revolution to Dethrone InfiniBand

Standard Ethernet can't handle AI. Early attempts were brittle patches on a flawed foundation. Now, a massive industry alliance is re-architecting it from the ground up. This is the story of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium's revolution.

By Arun Babu Neelicattu 04 Aug 2025
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