Nerds Run — ThinkingEssays, benchmarks and playbooks on platform engineering and agentic systems.https://nerds.run/en-usDistributing AI skills as OCI artifactshttps://nerds.run/thinking/oci-skill-distribution/https://nerds.run/thinking/oci-skill-distribution/Containers solved software distribution. What if operational AI skills were distributed the same way — signed, versioned, and admission-controlled?Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTESSAYBenchmarking local models on 128GB Strix Halo with Vulkanhttps://nerds.run/thinking/strix-halo-vulkan/https://nerds.run/thinking/strix-halo-vulkan/Six models, 60 tasks, methodology included. Why Vulkan (and not ROCm) is the path forward on gfx1151 this generation.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTBENCHMARKProctor / Coder / Reviewer: an autonomous coding pipeline that workshttps://nerds.run/thinking/proctor-coder-reviewer/https://nerds.run/thinking/proctor-coder-reviewer/The architecture behind harness-go. NATS JetStream, BadgerDB + Bleve, and hot-reload policy via atomic pointer swap.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTARCHITECTUREThe quiet death of the shared Kubernetes clusterhttps://nerds.run/thinking/shared-cluster-death/https://nerds.run/thinking/shared-cluster-death/Multi-tenancy was a compromise. vCluster, CAPI, and better tooling have made the compromise unnecessary — and kept blast radius small.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTESSAYThree bad Backstage habits and what to do insteadhttps://nerds.run/thinking/backstage-habits/https://nerds.run/thinking/backstage-habits/The IDP has a weight problem. Here is what we see break in every implementation and how to avoid it.Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTPLAYBOOKeBPF, Cilium, and the end of the iptables erahttps://nerds.run/thinking/ebpf-cilium-iptables/https://nerds.run/thinking/ebpf-cilium-iptables/Why every greenfield cluster we ship in 2026 starts with Cilium and Hubble, and what we are seeing at migration.Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTTECHNICAL