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Full time Staff SRE and Founder of Strake. Building operational tooling for engineering teams without a dedicated SRE. Writing about the ops mistakes I made so you don't have to.

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Oregon State University

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Five ways your AI coding agent wastes tokens (and how to fix each one)

Five ways your AI coding agent wastes tokens (and how to fix each one)

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Claude Code and Codex are logging your token usage locally. Here is how to read it.

Claude Code and Codex are logging your token usage locally. Here is how to read it.

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Can You Tell When an LLM API Swaps in a Cheaper Model?

Can You Tell When an LLM API Swaps in a Cheaper Model?

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Local AI Needs Data-Plane Health Checks

Local AI Needs Data-Plane Health Checks

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Keep the Credit Ledger Off-Chain. Checkpoint It On-Chain.

Keep the Credit Ledger Off-Chain. Checkpoint It On-Chain.

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Why Decentralized AI Compute Needs Two Assets, Not One

Why Decentralized AI Compute Needs Two Assets, Not One

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Brute-Force Retrieval Holds Through 5,000 Memories. Then It Doesn't.

Brute-Force Retrieval Holds Through 5,000 Memories. Then It Doesn't.

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Cross-Machine Memory Query: About 20 Milliseconds, Most Days

Cross-Machine Memory Query: About 20 Milliseconds, Most Days

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An AMD GPU Beat My Mac on Llama 8B. The Same GPU Lost on Phi-3.

An AMD GPU Beat My Mac on Llama 8B. The Same GPU Lost on Phi-3.

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Your GPU Probably Isn't Helping Your Retrieval System

Your GPU Probably Isn't Helping Your Retrieval System

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Why Strake Is Free Right Now

Why Strake Is Free Right Now

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You're Migrating Off Opsgenie. Here's What You Should Actually Fix.

You're Migrating Off Opsgenie. Here's What You Should Actually Fix.

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Incident Management for Teams Without a Dedicated SRE: A Practical Guide

Incident Management for Teams Without a Dedicated SRE: A Practical Guide

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Your Startup Doesn't Need Better Monitoring. It Needs Less of It.

Your Startup Doesn't Need Better Monitoring. It Needs Less of It.

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What are some of your favorite live coders?

What are some of your favorite live coders?

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How to deal with being laid off?

How to deal with being laid off?

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What is your least favorite part of software development?

What is your least favorite part of software development?

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Staying Focused

Staying Focused

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How do you take notes?

How do you take notes?

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What kind of music do you listen to while working?

What kind of music do you listen to while working?

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5 Key Parts to Problem Solving in the Software Development World.

5 Key Parts to Problem Solving in the Software Development World.

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Hi, I'm Robert Newton

Hi, I'm Robert Newton

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