Akshay's Expedition Logs
Deep dives into distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and the architectures that make AI at scale actually work
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Distributed Systems
•2026-01-10
Shared Memory, Zero-Copy, and the Object Store
Deep dive into Ray's object store architecture: how shared memory enables zero-copy transfers, plasma store implementation, and patterns for efficient distributed data handling.

Distributed Systems
•2025-12-03
Scheduling and Resource Management
Understanding Ray's intelligent scheduler—from hybrid scheduling and resource control to coordination tuning and data locality optimization.

Distributed Systems
•2025-11-24
Tasks, Actors, and the Execution Model
Understanding Ray's two execution models—stateless tasks for parallel work and stateful actors for coordination—and when to use each.
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