# optimize (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover optimize. Page: Feed: --- ## [Steering DDoS Traffic by Protocol: The RSS Trick That Saves a 100 GbE Filter](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/steering-ddos-traffic-by-protocol-the-rss-trick-that-saves-a-100-gbe-filter/) _2026-08-12 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Mixed-protocol floods collapse a ConnectX's receive rate. Steering each protocol to its own queues fixes it — but no single config fits every attack. Continue reading ## [A decade of mathematical certainty: Reflections on the Automated Reasoning Group](https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-decade-of-mathematical-certainty-reflections-on-the-automated-reasoning-group) _2026-08-11 · Amazon Science homepage_ Ten years after we founded the Automated Reasoning Group, mathematical logic has moved from academic research into production services that secure millions of customer workloads demonstrating that systems can be provably correct, not just probably correct. ## [AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips](https://www.amazon.science/news/aws-trainium-frontier-competition-co-design-models-and-kernels-on-purpose-built-ai-chips) _2026-08-10 · Amazon Science homepage_ A competition with a finalist ceremony during NeurIPS 2026, challenging researchers to train language models from scratch on Trainium, exploring what optimal architectures look like when the hardware changes. ## [Mellanox CQE Compression: Why Mixed Traffic Collapses 100 GbE Receive](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/mellanox-cqe-compression-why-mixed-traffic-collapses-100-gbe-receive/) _2026-08-10 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ A single extra L4 protocol collapses a 100 GbE ConnectX from line rate to ~20% receive — same frame size, same rate. The root cause is CQE compression breaking on mixed traffic (ConnectX-5 Ex and ConnectX-7). Continue reading ## [Simulating DDoS Attacks at 100GbE Line Rate with TRex](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/simulate-ddos-attacks-trex-100gbe-line-rate/) _2026-08-06 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Simulate volumetric DDoS attacks with TRex at 100GbE line rate (142 Mpps): UDP, SYN, ACK, ICMP, and IP-fragment floods with spoofed source IPs. Continue reading ## [34 Amazon Research Awards Build on Trainium recipients announced](https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/latest-news/34-amazon-research-awards-build-on-trainium-recipients-announced) _2026-08-05 · Amazon Science homepage_ Amazon announces 34 recipients of the Build on Trainium program, a $110 million credit initiative supporting AI research at 30 universities including Stanford, UC Berkeley, UIUC, UCLA, CMU, and MIT, with a focus on Responsible AI. ## [How controllers from industrial machinery can coordinate multitask machine learning](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-controllers-from-industrial-machinery-can-coordinate-multitask-machine-learning) _2026-07-30 · Amazon Science homepage_ Instead of compromising among parameter updates dictated by different training objectives, ControlG allocates computational capacity to objectives sequentially and dynamically. ## [A new benchmark for evaluating patient-facing health AI agents](https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-new-benchmark-for-evaluating-patient-facing-health-ai-agents) _2026-07-29 · Amazon Science homepage_ PatientAgentBench generates a synthetic patient health record, a realistic clinical vignette, and a patient agent that converses with the AI system under evaluation, to capture what a patient-facing agent actually has to do. ## [Writing a Line-Rate VPP Plugin: The Data-Plane Techniques That Actually Matter](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/writing-a-line-rate-vpp-plugin-the-data-plane-techniques-that-actually-matter/) _2026-07-28 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ TL;DR. At 100 GbE a small-packet plugin gets tens of cycles per packet. The surprise: on a modern VPP node most of the classic data-plane tricks batching, prefetch, inlining already measure ~0, because VPP applies them one layer down. Continue reading ## [Amazon is investing in the Lean Focused Research Organization](https://www.amazon.science/news/amazon-is-investing-in-the-lean-focused-research-organization) _2026-07-26 · Amazon Science homepage_ As AI agents take on higher-stakes decisions, Lean programming language makes it possible to mathematically prove they will behave safely. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/B2DaIulwJD77) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Learning VPP: Inside TupleMerge, the ACL Plugin’s Classifier](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/learning-vpp-inside-tuplemerge-the-acl-plugins-classifier/) _2026-07-13 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ TL;DR. TupleMerge, the classifier inside VPP’s ACL plugin, is tuple-space search plus one liberty: a rule may live in a table coarser than its own mask. Insert = join or relax; buckets past 39 candidates split; lookup = one probe Continue reading ## [Amazon and University of Michigan give robots a sense of touch](https://www.amazon.science/blog/amazon-and-university-of-michigan-give-robots-a-sense-of-touch) _2026-07-10 · Amazon Science homepage_ HydroShear, a new physics-based simulator, teaches robots how to use their sense of touch to perform complex manipulation tasks, in a way that transfers seamlessly to the real world. ## [Capturing token IDs during agentic interactions for better reinforcement learning](https://www.amazon.science/blog/capturing-token-ids-during-agentic-interactions-for-better-reinforcement-learning) _2026-07-09 · Amazon Science homepage_ A new Rust proxy called Turnstile sits between the model backend and the agent harness to capture information lost in mere text transcripts. ## [Optimize Images X now supports WEBP and drag and drop](https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2026/optimize-images-x_drag-and-drop) _2026-07-07 · Victor Domingos · The No Title® Tech Blog_ Optimize Images X, the multi-platform desktop application that helps you reduce the file size of your images on macOS, Windows and Linux, has just been updated to version 2.1.0. This new version adds drag-and-drop, conversion to more output formats, including WebP and AVIF , a new image info window with a readable EXIF report, and a PyInstaller spec file for building standalone executables. ## [How Amazon tracks carbon intensity across its operations](https://www.amazon.science/news/how-amazon-tracks-carbon-intensity-across-its-operations) _2026-07-01 · Amazon Science homepage_ Amazon is developing precise, sector-specific approaches to measuring decarbonization progress starting with emissions per unit shipped. ## [Docker Compose or Containerlab? Choosing the Right Tool for a VPP Network Lab](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/vpp-in-containerlab/) _2026-06-30 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Building a three-node VPP lab the declarative way with Containerlab: two Alpine endpoints and a VPP router that binds the veths via af\_packet, forwards between two subnets, and drops a destination with a blackhole route. Run without installing Containerlab and without sudo; real ping/traceroute/iperf3 traffic, about 16 Gbit/s through the software dataplane. Continue reading ## [Hardware-in-the-Loop CI: Line-Rate VPP Testing over Tailscale](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/hardware-in-the-loop-ci-line-rate-vpp-testing-over-tailscale/) _2026-06-29 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ TL;DR. Testing a data plane at 100GbE line rate needs real NICs running VPP — which no cloud CI runner has. So an ephemeral GitHub Actions runner joins a private two-machine lab over Tailscale, deploys its code to a scratch Continue reading ## [Just updated - Optimize Images v2.1.0](https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2026/updated_optimize-images-v2-1-0) _2026-06-26 · Victor Domingos · The No Title® Tech Blog_ Optimize Images 2.1.0 brings native WebP support, a generalized format-conversion system, on-demand image inspection with EXIF reporting, and a new in-memory API for working with image bytes directly. It is a focused, fully backwards-compatible step forward for the command-line tool and its public API . ## [Learning TRex: Generating 100GbE Line-Rate Traffic on a Mellanox ConnectX-5](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/generate-100gbe-line-rate-traffic-trex-connectx-5/) _2026-06-26 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Generate 100GbE line-rate traffic (142 Mpps) with TRex 3.06 on a Mellanox ConnectX-5: hardware, the frame-size math, config, streams, and tuning. Continue reading ## [The fuel of the future is already here: Why TRISO matters](https://www.amazon.science/blog/the-fuel-of-the-future-is-already-here-why-triso-matters) _2026-06-24 · Amazon Science homepage_ Millimeter-scale particles of nuclear-reactor fuel are encased in four layers of different materials that act as a miniature containment system . ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PwmDIB0lCGtY) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Tuning a VPP Data Plane to 100GbE Line Rate: Cycle Budget, NIC Rings, and RSS](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/tuning-a-vpp-data-plane-to-100gbe-line-rate-cycle-budget-nic-rings-and-rss/) _2026-06-23 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ TL;DR. A VPP software data plane drops packets at full 100GbE line rate (~140 Mpps) on one server — but staying there is a systems problem, not an algorithm one. Two things decide it, neither about the classifier: the per-packet Continue reading ## [Build a Network Lab on Your Laptop: GNS3 with VyOS and VPP, Step by Step](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/build-a-network-lab-on-your-laptop-gns3-with-vyos-and-vpp-step-by-step/) _2026-06-18 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ GNS3 turns your laptop into a full network lab: real router software, real links, real packets — no hardware. Pair it with VyOS, a free, Debian-based network OS with a Cisco/Juniper-style CLI, and you have an environment to practice routing, Continue reading ## [Learning VPP: Filtering Packets at 100GbE Line Rate](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/vpp-packet-filtering-100gbe-line-rate/) _2026-06-17 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ How a VPP software data plane drops packets at 140 Mpps: a flow cache + tuple-space search, the per-packet cycle budget, and why the NIC ring — not the CPU — is the ceiling. Continue reading ## [Learning VPP: Inside bihash, the Lock-Free Hash Table](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/vpp-bihash-lock-free-hash-table/) _2026-06-16 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ How VPP's bihash works: buckets, pages and KVPs, lock-free lookups with no reader locks, collision-driven page growth, and how to size it (bihash\_48\_8). Continue reading ## [Learning DPDK: Eliminating NIC Receive Drops at 100GbE](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/eliminate-dpdk-nic-receive-drops-100gbe/) _2026-06-12 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Why a DPDK poll-mode app drops packets at 100GbE and how to stop it: pinning NIC IRQs off the worker cores, plus isolcpus, nohz\_full and rcu\_nocbs. Continue reading ## [EC2’s formally verified “isolation engine” provides mathematical assurance of virtual-machine isolation](https://www.amazon.science/blog/ec2s-formally-verified-isolation-engine-provides-mathematical-assurance-of-virtual-machine-isolation) _2026-06-10 · Amazon Science homepage_ Splitting the separation kernel off from the rest of the Nitro security system and using only a subset of the Rust programming language to code it enabled its formal verification. ## [Graviton5’s improved design increases speed and energy efficiency — beyond Moore’s law](https://www.amazon.science/blog/graviton5s-improved-design-increases-speed-and-energy-efficiency-beyond-moores-law) _2026-06-10 · Amazon Science homepage_ A new chiplet architecture, custom die-to-die connectivity, and support for DDR5-8800 memory and the latest PCIe gen6 interconnects improve performance by 25% for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads. ## [Learning Mellanox ConnectX-5: CQE Compression Tuning](https://haryachyy.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/mellanox-connectx-5-cqe-compression-rx-performance/) _2026-06-10 · Denys Haryachyy · Denys Haryachyy_ Enable and tune CQE compression on the Mellanox ConnectX-5 (DPDK 25.07): the completion-queue mechanics that let a 64-core EPYC 7742 absorb 142 Mpps at 100GbE. Continue reading ## [Real-world grounding in agentic AI](https://www.amazon.science/blog/real-world-grounding-in-agentic-ai) _2026-06-08 · Amazon Science homepage_ Four approaches can dramatically improve the performance and trustworthiness of AI agents in operational environments. ## [Bridging intent and execution in agentic systems](https://www.amazon.science/blog/bridging-intent-and-execution-in-agentic-systems) _2026-06-08 · Amazon Science homepage_ The harnesses that mediate between models and tools in agentic systems are becoming their own performance bottleneck, but a few simple design principles can fix what ails them. ## [Hire AI-Powered Freelancers Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LPVCWQfC35hF) _2026-06-08 · **Sponsored**_ Browse and hire skilled professionals using AI tools — free to post, free to apply. ## [Ground truth is a process, not a dataset](https://www.amazon.science/blog/ground-truth-is-a-process-not-a-dataset) _2026-06-03 · Amazon Science homepage_ Automatically fact-checking long, AI-generated research reports poses new challenges including benchmarking. ## [Just updated - both Optimize Images and Optimize Images X](https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2026/updated_optimize-images-and-optimize-images-x-v2) _2026-06-01 · Victor Domingos · The No Title® Tech Blog_ This release represents a significant milestone for both Optimize Images and Optimize Images X, marking a coordinated step forward in modernization, dependency cleanup, and internal architecture improvements across the ecosystem. ## [How flat is replacing fat in AWS data center networks](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-flat-is-replacing-fat-in-aws-data-center-networks) _2026-05-28 · Amazon Science homepage_ Quasi-random network topologies and new passive optical components called ShuffleBoxes make more-efficient flat networks as practical as traditional fat-tree networks. ## [Amazon Research Awards recipients announced](https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/latest-news/fall-2025-amazon-research-awards-recipients-announced) _2026-05-27 · Amazon Science homepage_ Awardees represent more than 49 universities in 11 countries. Recipients have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. ## [Diverse reasoning traces teach LLMs to make better decisions](https://www.amazon.science/blog/diverse-reasoning-traces-teach-llms-to-make-better-decisions) _2026-05-26 · Amazon Science homepage_ How to train language models to generate diverse, accurate reasoning paths using tokens that control distinct reasoning strategies. ## [Making LLMs faster without sacrificing accuracy](https://www.amazon.science/blog/making-llms-faster-without-sacrificing-accuracy) _2026-05-15 · Amazon Science homepage_ A new scaling law that relates particular architectural choices to loss helps identify models that improve throughput by up to 47% with no loss of accuracy. ## [Promptimus: Improving already good LLM prompts with zero manual engineering](https://www.amazon.science/blog/promptimus-improving-already-good-llm-prompts-with-zero-manual-engineering) _2026-05-14 · Amazon Science homepage_ By focusing on specific failure points and suggesting targeted solutions, a new automated prompt-engineering framework improves prompt performance without compromising existing functionality. ## [Navigating uncertainty in Amazon's middle-mile network](https://www.amazon.science/blog/navigating-uncertainty-in-amazons-middle-mile-network) _2026-05-06 · Amazon Science homepage_ Amazon engineers and scientists have created new tools to optimize delivery networks under uncertainty and keep them adapting without missing a beat. ## [How mechanism design theory helps optimize Amazon-vendor collaboration](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-mechanism-design-theory-helps-optimize-amazon-vendor-collaboration) _2026-05-05 · Amazon Science homepage_ Agentic mechanism enables Amazon and vendors to optimize supply chain management without disclosing private information. ## [Building trust into AI](https://www.amazon.science/blog/building-trust-into-ai) _2026-05-04 · Amazon Science homepage_ Amazon scientists and policy experts discuss how the company s responsible-AI pipeline embeds safety and values throughout the AI development lifecycle. ## [Preserving the privacy of AI training data](https://www.amazon.science/blog/preserving-the-privacy-of-ai-training-data) _2026-04-29 · Amazon Science homepage_ How we reproduced three attacks that extract private training data from AI models and the cryptographic defenses that stop them. ## [Foreign LLC vs Subsidiary: Which Is Better?](https://www.quicksprout.com/foreign-llc-vs-subsidiary/) _2026-04-28 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ Expanding your business into another state forces a decision most founders don’t think about until it’s too late: Should you register your existing LLC as a foreign entity—or create a brand-new subsidiary? On the surface, both options let you operate in another state. But structurally, legally, and financially—they’re very different. \[ \] The post Foreign LLC vs Subsidiary: Which Is Better?… ## [What Ongoing Documents Does an LLC Need Every Year?](https://www.quicksprout.com/what-ongoing-documents-does-an-llc-need/) _2026-04-28 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ Starting an LLC is the easy part. Staying compliant year after year? That’s where most business owners mess up. Miss a filing, forget a document, or ignore a deadline—and your LLC can fall out of good standing, rack up penalties, or even get suspended. The tricky part is that there’s \[ \] The post What Ongoing Documents Does an LLC Need Every Year? appeared first on . ## [How catastrophic is your LLM?](https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-catastrophic-is-your-llm) _2026-04-27 · Amazon Science homepage_ A new framework provides a statistical method for estimating the likelihood of catastrophic failures in large language models in adversarial conversations. ## [How to Reinstate a Suspended LLC (Step-by-Step)](https://www.quicksprout.com/how-to-reinstate-a-suspended-llc/) _2026-04-27 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ Your LLC was active… until it wasn’t. No warning, no dramatic moment—just a notice from the state saying your business is “suspended,” “revoked,” or “not in good standing.” This happens more often than most people realize. And the worst part? Many business owners don’t even know it’s happened until something \[ \] The post How to Reinstate a Suspended LLC (Step-by-Step) appeared first on . ## [Do You Need a Registered Agent? (And What They Actually Do)](https://www.quicksprout.com/do-you-need-a-registered-agent/) _2026-04-27 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ Most people rush through the business formation process and click whatever gets them to the finish line fastest. That’s exactly how they end up choosing the wrong registered agent—or worse, naming themselves without understanding what they’re signing up for. And that one decision can come back to bite you. Miss \[ \] The post Do You Need a Registered Agent? (And What They Actually Do) appeared first… ## [How to Register a Foreign LLC (Step-by-Step Guide)](https://www.quicksprout.com/how-to-register-a-foreign-llc/) _2026-04-24 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ Expanding your business into another state sounds simple—until you realize your LLC isn’t legally allowed to operate there. This is where most business owners get caught off guard. You already have an LLC. You’re generating revenue. Maybe you’re hiring employees or opening a second location. But legally, your business only \[ \] The post How to Register a Foreign LLC (Step-by-Step Guide) appeared… ## [How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Business in 2026](https://www.quicksprout.com/how-to-get-more-google-reviews/) _2026-03-26 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ If you want more local leads in 2026, you need more Google reviews. Not fake ones. Not purchased ones. Not a bunch of weird five-star posts that show up in one weekend and get your profile flagged. Real reviews from real customers. That matters because reviews are still one of \[ \] The post How to Get More Google Reviews for Your Business in 2026 appeared first on . ## [How to Optimize Your Google Business Profile in 2026](https://www.quicksprout.com/google-business-profile-optimization/) _2026-03-25 · Quick Sprout Editorial · (untitled)_ If you want more local leads, your Google Business Profile needs to be one of the first things you fix. For most service businesses, it is the difference between showing up when people search “near me” and getting buried under better-optimized competitors. That is because your Google Business Profile does \[ \] The post How to Optimize Your Google Business Profile in 2026 appeared first on . ## [The Good, the Bad, and the Leaky: jemalloc, bumpalo, and mimalloc in meilisearch](https://blog.kerollmops.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-leaky-jemalloc-bumpalo-and-mimalloc-in-meilisearch) _2026-03-20 · renault.cle@gmail.com (Clément Renault) · Clément Renault's blog_ How I dove into a spooky memory leak, found it, but discovered that the actual leak was more on mimalloc's side than on meilisearch's. I used jemalloc's powerful tooling and a bit of help from an LLM to dive into this hard-to-tackle issue.