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xbill

Master of MCP and herding cats

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The unofficial TPU migration guide: Cloud TPU API to Compute Engine
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The unofficial TPU migration guide: Cloud TPU API to Compute Engine

#tpu #gcp #vllm #devops
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Three Clouds, Three Native Agents
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Three Clouds, Three Native Agents

#cloud #ai #architecture #devops
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Five Gemma-4 models, one accelerator: what porting E2B 31B to AWS Inferentia2 taught me
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Five Gemma-4 models, one accelerator: what porting E2B 31B to AWS Inferentia2 taught me

#machinelearning #aws #ai #python
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Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹
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Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

#bugsmash #debugging #ai #python
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Mix and Match: Running Kiro on Azure Cloud Shell
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Mix and Match: Running Kiro on Azure Cloud Shell

#cli #cloudshell #azure #aws
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Gemma 4 on a Tesla T4: QAT Weights Decode 1.79x Faster Than bf16
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Gemma 4 on a Tesla T4: QAT Weights Decode 1.79x Faster Than bf16

#gemma #vllm #cuda #machinelearning
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It's Got What Content Craves: Sanity, Built for the People of Idiocracy

Sanity Challenge Path Two Submission
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It's Got What Content Craves: Sanity, Built for the People of Idiocracy

#devchallenge #sanitychallenge #sanity #ai
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Serving Gemma 4 on an AMD MI300X: What $1.99 an Hour Buys
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Serving Gemma 4 on an AMD MI300X: What $1.99 an Hour Buys

#amd #vllm #rocm #machinelearning
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An MI300X Over MCP: What the Matrix Cores Execute, and What They Don't
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An MI300X Over MCP: What the Matrix Cores Execute, and What They Don't

#amd #mcp #rocm #machinelearning
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A 4 GB Laptop GPU Beats a 12-Core CPU by 4.3x on Gemma 4
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A 4 GB Laptop GPU Beats a 12-Core CPU by 4.3x on Gemma 4

#machinelearning #gpu #benchmarking #python
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Four Iceberg Tools, Three Agent Frameworks: What Ports, and What Doesn't
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Four Iceberg Tools, Three Agent Frameworks: What Ports, and What Doesn't

#iceberg #aiagents #lakehouse #dataengineering
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Four Iceberg Tools, Three Agent Frameworks: What Ports, and What Doesn't
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Four Iceberg Tools, Three Agent Frameworks: What Ports, and What Doesn't

#iceberg #aiagents #lakehouse #dataengineering
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Nano Banana 2 Lite in Kiro CLI 3: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Headless Permissions
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Nano Banana 2 Lite in Kiro CLI 3: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Headless Permissions

#kiro #mcp #gemini #python
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Nano Banana 2 Lite in Kiro CLI 3: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Headless Permissions
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Nano Banana 2 Lite in Kiro CLI 3: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Headless Permissions

#kiro #mcp #gemini #python
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Build in the VM, Think on the Mac GPU: Debian 13 on Apple container With a Local Gemma 4
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Build in the VM, Think on the Mac GPU: Debian 13 on Apple container With a Local Gemma 4

#debian #macos #ollama #linux
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Nano Banana 2 Lite, Revisited: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Three Agent CLIs
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Nano Banana 2 Lite, Revisited: MCP 2.0, the New Interactions API, and Three Agent CLIs

#mcp #python #gemini #claudecode
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Two Rust Clients for Gemma 4: Calling the Endpoint vs. Calling the MCP Server 🦀
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Two Rust Clients for Gemma 4: Calling the Endpoint vs. Calling the MCP Server 🦀

#rust #mcp #gemma #llamacpp
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FastMCP Is Now MCPServer on AWS: Moving a boto3 EC2 MCP Server to the MCP Python SDK 2.x
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FastMCP Is Now MCPServer on AWS: Moving a boto3 EC2 MCP Server to the MCP Python SDK 2.x

#aws #mcp #python #ec2
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FastMCP Is Now MCPServer: Migrating a Python MCP Server to the MCP SDK 2.x

Dependency upgrades break shared environments
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FastMCP Is Now MCPServer: Migrating a Python MCP Server to the MCP SDK 2.x

#mcp #python #googlecloud #vllm
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Gemma 4 on an 2021 4 GB Laptop GPU: QAT Takes It From 9.5 GiB to 1.6
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Gemma 4 on an 2021 4 GB Laptop GPU: QAT Takes It From 9.5 GiB to 1.6

#gemma #llamacpp #mcp #cuda
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2B Gemma 4 Deployment with Cloud Run, NVIDIA L4, MCP SDK 2.x, and Claude Code
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2B Gemma 4 Deployment with Cloud Run, NVIDIA L4, MCP SDK 2.x, and Claude Code

#mcp #gemma #googlecloud #claudecode
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Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud
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Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud

#debian #linux #claudecode #devops
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Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud
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Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud

#debian #linux #claudecode #devops
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The Desktop Looked Right: 2,093 Parse Errors a Boot, and 10.9 Seconds That Weren't Doing Anything
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The Desktop Looked Right: 2,093 Parse Errors a Boot, and 10.9 Seconds That Weren't Doing Anything

#debian #linux #claudecode #devops
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The Cable Buys Headroom: 91% of a USB 2.0 Bus, 3.6% of a Thunderbolt One
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The Cable Buys Headroom: 91% of a USB 2.0 Bus, 3.6% of a Thunderbolt One

#linux #networking #usb #debugging
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Generosity Is a Default Setting

DEV Weekend Challenge: Generosity Edition Submission 💜
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Generosity Is a Default Setting

#weekendchallenge #linux #networking #python
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AWS Has Two Iceberg REST Catalogs: What Each One Actually Serves
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AWS Has Two Iceberg REST Catalogs: What Each One Actually Serves

#aws #iceberg #lakehouse #dataengineering
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Seven Iceberg REST Catalogs: What They Declare, and What They Serve
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Seven Iceberg REST Catalogs: What They Declare, and What They Serve

#iceberg #lakehouse #dataengineering #googlecloud
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ChromeOS Lookalikes, Two Ways: One With Drivers, One Without
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ChromeOS Lookalikes, Two Ways: One With Drivers, One Without

#chromeos #linux #debian #gnome
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Three Gemma 4 Deployments on One T4G for Under $3: What the Runtime Changes, and What It Doesn't
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Three Gemma 4 Deployments on One T4G for Under $3: What the Runtime Changes, and What It Doesn't

#aws #machinelearning #benchmarking #python
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Three Gemma 4 Deployments on One T4G for Under $3: What the Runtime Changes, and What It Doesn't
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Three Gemma 4 Deployments on One T4G for Under $3: What the Runtime Changes, and What It Doesn't

#aws #machinelearning #benchmarking #python
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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill
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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill

#claudecode #writing #devtools #ai
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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill
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Streamline Publishing with a Claude Code Skill

#claudecode #writing #devtools #ai
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g5g vs g6 for LLM Serving: the Same Code, and 3.7x the Throughput
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g5g vs g6 for LLM Serving: the Same Code, and 3.7x the Throughput

#aws #jax #cuda #machinelearning
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Gemma 4 in Pure JAX: What Changes Between Turing and Ada, and What Doesn't
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Gemma 4 in Pure JAX: What Changes Between Turing and Ada, and What Doesn't

#jax #gemma #cuda #machinelearning
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The Cheapest CUDA GPU on AWS Has an Arm CPU — and You Probably Want the Intel One
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The Cheapest CUDA GPU on AWS Has an Arm CPU — and You Probably Want the Intel One

#aws #vllm #cuda #machinelearning
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Gemma 4 in Pure JAX: What Ports from TPU to GPU, and What Doesn't
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Gemma 4 in Pure JAX: What Ports from TPU to GPU, and What Doesn't

#gemma #jax #googleai #machinelearning
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Pure JAX on G5g: Serving Gemma 4 on Graviton and a T4G
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Pure JAX on G5g: Serving Gemma 4 on Graviton and a T4G

#aws #ec2 #gpu #machinelearning
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Cross Cloud A2A Agent Card Field Comparison
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Cross Cloud A2A Agent Card Field Comparison

#a2a #multicloud #ai #python
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What Bedrock AgentCore Actually Puts on Your A2A Agent Card
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What Bedrock AgentCore Actually Puts on Your A2A Agent Card

#aws #bedrock #a2a #aiagents
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Mix and Match: One Agent, Three Clouds, One Protocol
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Mix and Match: One Agent, Three Clouds, One Protocol

#a2a #aiagents #aws #azure
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Mix and Match: Serving an ADK Agent to AWS and Azure
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Mix and Match: Serving an ADK Agent to AWS and Azure

#googlecloud #gemini #a2a #aiagents
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Mix and Match: Serving a Bedrock Agent to Google and Azure
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Mix and Match: Serving a Bedrock Agent to Google and Azure

#aws #bedrock #a2a #aiagents
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Three Clouds, One Brief: What Actually Differs Between ADK, Strands and Agent Framework
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Three Clouds, One Brief: What Actually Differs Between ADK, Strands and Agent Framework

#a2a #aiagents #aws #azure
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Strands on AgentCore, Answering Two Other Clouds: The Contract, the Header, and the microVM
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Strands on AgentCore, Answering Two Other Clouds: The Contract, the Header, and the microVM

#aws #bedrock #a2a #aiagents
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ADK Beyond Its Own Tests: What Happens When Your Agent Answers a Client That Is Not ADK
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ADK Beyond Its Own Tests: What Happens When Your Agent Answers a Client That Is Not ADK

#googlecloud #gemini #a2a #aiagents
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Deploying a QAT Checkpoint Your Serving Stack Can't Load: Gemma 4 E2B in Pure JAX on One TPU
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Deploying a QAT Checkpoint Your Serving Stack Can't Load: Gemma 4 E2B in Pure JAX on One TPU

#tpu #jax #llm #quantization
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Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through 🦀
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Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through 🦀

#rust #mcp #aws #ai
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Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through 🦀
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Build an MCP server in Rust with rmcp: a walk-through 🦀

#rust #mcp #aws #ai
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Shipping a vision-model verdict on Bedrock and Lightsail
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Shipping a vision-model verdict on Bedrock and Lightsail

#showdev #aws #ai #python
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I built a security scanner that checks if you are a dog

DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition Submission 🐕
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I built a security scanner that checks if you are a dog

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #ai #testing
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Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM 🦀
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Serving Gemma4 with Rust on vLLM 🦀

#rust #vllm #aws #cuda
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Installing Rust for vLLM on Graviton: a G5g walk-through 🦀
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Installing Rust for vLLM on Graviton: a G5g walk-through 🦀

#rust #vllm #aws #cuda
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Building and Serving vLLM with Rust
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Building and Serving vLLM with Rust

#gemma4 #vlllm #mcps #rust
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Looker's Native MCP Server with Claude Code
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Looker's Native MCP Server with Claude Code

#mcp #looker #claudecode #cli
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Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
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Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU

#aws #vllm #cuda #machinelearning
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Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU
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Running Gemma 4 on EC2 G5g: Graviton2 AMD with NVIDIA GPU

#aws #vllm #cuda #machinelearning
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Do I Still Need a Monkey Patch for Gemini Live?
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Do I Still Need a Monkey Patch for Gemini Live?

#python #googleadk #gemini #geminilive
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MCP Configuration for Looker with Codex
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MCP Configuration for Looker with Codex

#mcp #codex #lookml #cli
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Serving Gemma 4 E2B on a TPU v6e-1: what Trillium buys, and what it doesn't
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Serving Gemma 4 E2B on a TPU v6e-1: what Trillium buys, and what it doesn't

#tpu #vllm #llm #gcp
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Three Clouds, Three Native Agents
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Three Clouds, Three Native Agents

#agents #ai #architecture #cloud
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Self-hosting a lite agent backend on one TPU: Gemma 4 E2B + vLLM on a v5e-1
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Self-hosting a lite agent backend on one TPU: Gemma 4 E2B + vLLM on a v5e-1

#tpu #vllm #llm #gcp
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Build a Dart ADK Agent and MCP Server

Brings agents to Dart via SSE and Shelf
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Build a Dart ADK Agent and MCP Server

#dart #ai #mcp #googlecloud
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Serving Gemma 4 2B on a Single TPU v5e Chip with MCP and Antigravity CLI
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Serving Gemma 4 2B on a Single TPU v5e Chip with MCP and Antigravity CLI

#antigravitycli #python #mcps #gemma
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MCP Development Updates with Rust and Claude Code
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MCP Development Updates with Rust and Claude Code

#stdio #mcps #rust #claudecode
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