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Explicit Control Loops Evidence First, Measure Before You Optimize Warnings Over Errors, Graceful Degradation by Default One Config, Many Surfaces Contract-Driven Integration GitOps as the Boring Substrate

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Operating a Kubernetes LLM Platform on Consumer GPUs

Updated Aug 30, 20266 min read

AI InfrastructureIn ProgressFeatured

Operating a Kubernetes LLM Platform on Consumer GPUs

How I evolved a small AMD GPU cluster into a CRD-driven inference platform with an OpenAI-compatible boundary, evidence-based model promotion, and safe rollouts.

FlexInfer
Kubernetes
Flux
vLLM
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Updated Aug 30, 20265 min read

HealthcareIn ProgressFeatured

fi-fhir: Profile-Driven Healthcare Integration

How fi-fhir separates feed-specific variance from parsing, semantic events, durable delivery, and workflow policy—and where the pre-1.0 platform still has work to do.

Go
PostgreSQL
YAML
CEL
+5 more

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Patient Matching When the API Contract Is Ambiguous

Updated Aug 30, 20265 min read

Healthcare

Patient Matching When the API Contract Is Ambiguous

A de-identified field pattern for containing patient-match risk when filter and mode parameters interact in undocumented ways.

REST API
Go
PostgreSQL
Prometheus

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Building an Operator-Focused Kubernetes Dashboard

Updated Aug 30, 20266 min read

DevOpsIn Progress

Building an Operator-Focused Kubernetes Dashboard

How FlexDeck combines Kubernetes, Flux, CI, observability, and model state without hiding freshness, access boundaries, or the limits of a homelab control surface.

Go
SolidJS
Kubernetes
Flux
+3 more

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