Benchmarks
Apple M4 Max first NPU benchmarks: tflops per watt analysis
First inference benchmarks on the M4 Max 38 TOPS NPU: ViT-L/16 throughput, INT8 quant impact, and tflops per watt vs 4090.
By Lukas Berg ·
Established 2023 · Updated continuously
Production machine learning, deep-dived.
ML Systems Review is an independent engineering publication covering production machine learning systems — architecture case studies, benchmarks, and long-form investigations into how AI products actually work. No sponsorship, no affiliate links, no marketing copy.
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The llama.cpp 2026 rewrite: what changed in the inference engine
Kernel generator, KV cache rearrangement, Metal/CUDA backend unification — a 2.1x throughput delta on 70B quantized models.
By Priya Ramachandran ·
Model Architecture
DeepSeek-V3.5 paper notes: what's actually novel
Reading notes on the DeepSeek-V3.5 release: MoE routing updates, efficiency gains, and which contributions hold up versus rebadged 3.1.
By Dr. Marcus Brennan ·
ML Ecosystem
The Hugging Face ecosystem: what changed in 2026
Transformers 5.0, Spaces v2, revised Inference Endpoints pricing, Diffusers consolidation.
By Priya Ramachandran ·
Featured
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Anatomy of a production ML failure: Zillow's iBuy collapse
By Dr. Nadia Volkov ·
Distributed Systems
CRDTs in production: lessons from Figma's multiplayer engine
How Figma's multiplayer engine keeps hundreds of concurrent editors in sync with CRDTs, plus the operational-transform alternative they rejected.
By Priya Ramachandran ·
Distributed Systems
Discord's architecture: why they're migrating from Elixir to Rust
BEAM scaling walls, NIF interop, and the selective Rust migration pattern Discord used for their hot-path services.
By Priya Ramachandran ·
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