Rahul Rawat

A visual, interactive walk through the 2012 AlexNet paper — the idea, the eight layers, the tricks that made it train, the results, and what has held up since.

"It works on my infrastructure" is where the easy part ends and the actual job begins. A long, honest look at what a forward deployed engineer really does once the demo is over and you are standing inside someone else's environment.

It started at 2am with one runaway client. A hands-on walk through rate limiting — from a naive counter to a distributed token bucket that holds up across a fleet — with a live simulator you can go break yourself.