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Aug 01, 2025

The Edge-First Awakening: Redefining the Foundations of Modern Computing

How two decades of cloud-first evangelism inverted the fundamentals of distributed computing.

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Aug 10, 2026 • Addo Smajic

Edge AI Is Ready. Your Data Layer Is Not.

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Aug 03, 2026 • Addo Smajic

Sync Without Servers

Why AI Agents Need to Talk Directly

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Jul 27, 2026 • Addo Smajic

Memory at the Edge

Why On-Device AI Has to Own Its Own State

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