Most Teams Move to Dedicated Inference Too Early
Learn why teams often move to dedicated inference too early and how to decide when serverless or dedicated inference makes the most sense for your workload.
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Web Tutorials
Step-by-step guides to build your own site · 44 tutorials
animation-trigger
The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs. animation-trigger originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
CSS-Tricks
Rethinking Data Visualisation: A UX Approach To Dashboards That Actually Drives Decisions
Data visualisation sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely talk to each other: data and design. Meriem Benhabiles explores what changes when you bring structured UX thinking to dashboards and data presentations, from the questions you ask before opening any tool to the decisions that
Smashing Magazine
Cold Start Latency on Serverless Inference: What Actually Happens in Those Few Seconds
Understand serverless inference cold starts, what causes latency, how model size and caching affect performance, and which optimizations actually help.
DigitalOcean Blog
How to Benchmark LLM Inference Yourself: A Design Standard for Numbers You Can Trust
How to benchmark LLM inference: a 15-point checklist backed by 3,000 measured DigitalOcean requests. Why TTFT p50 stays flat while p95 nearly triples.
DigitalOcean Blog
MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter
Syntax highlighting for code blocks without the complicated markup, spans, classes, and bloated JavaScript, courtesy of Uncle Dave. MicroLighter: Syntax Highlighter originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
CSS-Tricks
Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing
Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and
Smashing Magazine
Do You Need a Custom Embedding Model?
When off-the-shelf embeddings stop being good enough for RAG, and what it actually costs to fine-tune your own.
DigitalOcean Blog
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
Seven and half years after blocks arrived in Core, WordPress introduces a way to build blocks without React annd build pipelines. All you need is PHP. WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
CSS-Tricks
Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector
A newly resolved proposal would allow us to select classes that are a prefix for variations with a wildcard, like .prefix-*. Resolved: CSS Class Prefix Selector originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
CSS-Tricks
How to Add RAG to Hermes Agent with DigitalOcean Knowledge Bases
Hermes Agent ships with memory but no retrieval over your own documents. This tutorial connects it to a DigitalOcean Knowledge Base with a ~60-line plugin, then proves the retrieval actually works using a corpus the model can't answer from general knowledge.
DigitalOcean Blog
Choosing an Inference Provider for AI Agents: Latency, Tool Calling, and Cost per Task
Compare AI inference providers for agents based on latency, tool calling, reliability, and cost per completed task to choose the right provider for your workload.
DigitalOcean Blog