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The First Transistor was Successfully Demonstrated in 1947, Argentina Announced Its Biggest Debt Default in History in 2001, The Federal Reserve System was founded via Federal Reserve Act in 1913,
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From
Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead
to
When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste,
let’s dive right in.
Governing and Scaling AI Agents: Operational Excellence and the Road Ahead
By @denisp [ 23 Min read ] Success isnt building the agent; its managing it. From AgentOps to ROI dashboards, here is the operational playbook for scaling Enterprise AI. Read More.
Human Systems Design: Why Epigenetics Rewrites Everything We Know About Change
By @riedriftlens [ 6 Min read ] Mindset shifts fail because the nervous system prioritizes predictability. Why true change requires repetitive neurobiological processes, not just thoughts. Read More.
When “big Tape” Stops Being a Storage Asset and Starts Acting Like Radioactive Data Waste
By @carlwatts [ 8 Min read ] Can massive 100 TB+ tapes turn from preservation assets into liabilities? A veteran storage engineer explores risks, erasure coding, and future tape resilience. Read More.
We Let an AI Run a Business. Here Are 4 of the Strangest Things That Happened
By @hacker-Antho [ 5 Min read ] Researchers at Anthropic gave an AI named Claudius a real-world job: running a small shop in their office. Read More.
How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP
By @malkomich [ 20 Min read ] Build intelligent load balancing on GCP for Python microservices using GKE, NEGs, readiness probes, autoscaling, and observability to cut failures. Read More.
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