Scheduled jobs in launchd plists had no visibility, Jenkins fixed that and ate gigabytes of memory, and GitHub Actions ran out of minutes. So I built kipp: one Go binary, jobs as YAML, a DAG of stages, multibranch builds, and about 50 MB resident.

Under Bun, wrangler's createTestHarness() listens fine and then every request hangs with no error. The cause is Bun's fetch() ignoring the undici dispatcher Miniflare routes requests through - and wrangler 4.151.3 now fails fast with a message that says so.

Cloudflare cut 1.1.1.1's DNS cache from 953 to 420 bytes per entry with five Rust layout changes, freeing about 100 TB of RAM. A walkthrough of each change and the arithmetic that made it pay.

EmbeddingGemma 2 and Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B against bge-m3 on one workload, clustering news articles from Vietnamese newspapers into stories. Quality was level, each model has its own cosine scale, and the one real gap covers under one percent of pairs.

I put four model profiles on LiteLLM, sent back two comments and two issues, read how 9Router handles the same cases, and still run 3,000 lines of my own. Here is what worked, what did not, and why.

A two-second capacity dip, four retry policies and one retry budget, simulated in about a hundred lines of Go: how retries multiply load, why jitter helps, and what a budget changes.