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The memory market is experiencing unprecedented price volatility in late 2025, with RAM prices surging dramatically across all segments.

Local deployment of LLMs has become increasingly popular as developers and organizations seek enhanced privacy, reduced latency, and greater control over their AI infrastructure.

Let’s compare prices for top-level consumer GPUs, that are suitable for LLMs in particular and AI in general. Specifically I’m looking at RTX-5080 and RTX-5090 prices.

The democratization of AI is here. With open-source LLMs like Llama 3, Mixtral, and Qwen now rivaling proprietary models, teams can build powerful AI infrastructure using consumer hardware - slashing costs while maintaining complete control over data privacy and deployment.

Prometheus has become the de facto standard for monitoring cloud-native applications and infrastructure, offering metrics collection, querying, and integration with visualization tools.

Grafana is the leading open-source platform for monitoring and observability, transforming metrics, logs, and traces into actionable insights through stunning visualizations.

Kubernetes StatefulSets are the go-to solution for managing stateful applications that require stable identities, persistent storage, and ordered deployment patterns—essential for databases, distributed systems, and caching layers.

FLUX.1-dev is a powerful text-to-image model that produces stunning results, but its 24GB+ memory requirement makes it challenging to run on many systems. GGUF quantization of FLUX.1-dev offers a solution, reducing memory usage by approximately 50% while maintaining excellent image quality.

Configuring context sizes in Docker Model Runner is more complex than it should be.

Black Forest Labs has released FLUX.1-Kontext-dev, an advanced image-to-image AI model that augments existing images using text instructions.

Docker Model Runner is Docker’s official tool for running AI models locally, but enabling NVidia GPU acceleration in Docker Model Runner requires specific configuration.

Choosing the right headless CMS can make or break your content management strategy. Let’s compare three open-source solutions that influence how devs build content - driven applications.

Nextcloud is the leading open-source, self-hosted cloud storage and collaboration platform that puts you in complete control of your data.

Immich is a revolutionary open-source, self-hosted photo and video management solution that gives you complete control over your memories. With features rivaling Google Photos - including AI-powered facial recognition, smart search, and automatic mobile backup - all while keeping your data private and secure on your own server.

Elasticsearch is a powerful distributed search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. This comprehensive cheatsheet covers essential commands, best practices, and quick references for working with Elasticsearch clusters.

I dug up some interesting performance tests of GPT-OSS 120b running on Ollama across three different platforms: NVIDIA DGX Spark, Mac Studio, and RTX 4080. The GPT-OSS 120b model from the Ollama library weighs in at 65GB, which means it doesn’t fit into the 16GB VRAM of an RTX 4080 (or the newer RTX 5080).