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Moncef Abboud

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Moncef Abboud blog and posts.

Distributed systems / cloudDatabasesAI / MLDevOps / SRE / infrastructure

Posts
31 from 7 Dec 2024 to 29 Jul 2026
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monthly (15 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 11

  1. How Profitable is LLM Inference? Doing the Math on Kimi K3
  2. Distributed LLM Inference with llm-d
  3. Exploring Speculative Decoding: From Concept to Implementation
  4. Exploring Mixture of Experts: From Concept to Inference Engine
  5. Deep Dive into Efficient LLM Inference with nano-vLLM
  6. Coding Agent with Self-hosted LLM: End-to-End Control with Opencode and vLLM
  7. MonClaw: A Minimal OpenClaw Built with the OpenCode SDK
  8. Taking a Look at OpenClaw (Clawdbot)
  9. Exploring UCP: Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol
  10. Building A Coding Agent (Provider-agnostic)
  11. Notes on Distributed Consensus and Raft

2025 18

  1. Exploring Kafka Cruise Control
  2. Exploring Prometheus Internals: TSDB and XOR Encoding
  3. It’s Not Always DNS: Exploring How Name Resolution Works
  4. The Internet is Cool. Thank you, TCP
  5. Inside Multi-Platform Docker Builds with QEMU
  6. A Practical Tour From Source to CPU
  7. Exploring the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP)
  8. Reducing Context Bloat with Dynamic Context Loading (DCL) for LLMs & MCP
  9. Exploring Terminals, TTYs, and PTYs
  10. How Coding Agents Actually Work: Inside OpenCode
  11. Is MCP a Security Nightmare?: A look into MCP Authorization with OAuth2
  12. Exploring Kafka Streams Internals
  13. Taking a Look at Database Disk, Memory, and Concurrency Management
  14. Meta MCP: Chaining Tools via Prompt-Driven Arguments
  15. Behind Sending Millions of Messages Per Second: A Look Under the Hood of Kafka Producer
  16. Gossip and Consensus: Using Serf and Raft to Build a Kafka-esque System
  17. How Are Images REALLY Stored?
  18. Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms

2024 2

  1. MonKafka: Building a Kafka Broker from Scratch
  2. Exploring Apache Kafka Internals and Codebase