https://siktec.xyz/lab SIKTEC is a full-spectrum technology partner. We build AI-powered platforms, cloud infrastructure, embedded firmware, and custom hardware - from early prototyping to enterprise-scale delivery. en Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://siktec.xyz/lab/append-only-storage-vacuum https://siktec.xyz/lab/append-only-storage-vacuum Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Borrowing from PostgreSQL and LSM-tree databases, KAI's document store achieves zero-copy reads, crash-safe deletes, and background physical reclamation. deepdives programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/quantization-codebooks https://siktec.xyz/lab/quantization-codebooks Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How KAI compresses 6 KB float32 vectors into ~768 bytes - without ever looking at your data - using the geometry of high-dimensional spheres and optimal scalar quantization theory. deepdives programming ai https://siktec.xyz/lab/simd-vector-search https://siktec.xyz/lab/simd-vector-search Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A deep dive into nibble-split lookup tables, blocked memory layouts, and architecture-specific SIMD kernels - the techniques that make sub-millisecond vector search possible. deepdives programming ai https://siktec.xyz/lab/tiny-bmp-parser-microcontrollers https://siktec.xyz/lab/tiny-bmp-parser-microcontrollers Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to read, decode, and draw Windows BMP images on a tiny microcontroller by streaming pixels straight from an SD card - no framebuffer, no megabytes, just a couple of rows of RAM. embedded deepdives programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/rust-async-architecture https://siktec.xyz/lab/rust-async-architecture Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a vector search server that handles hundreds of concurrent HTTP requests while running SIMD operations at full CPU efficiency. deepdives programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/wasm-plugin-systems-everywhere https://siktec.xyz/lab/wasm-plugin-systems-everywhere Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT WASM finally cracked the oldest problem in software extensibility: running someone else's untrusted code, written in any language, safely and fast. Here's why plugin systems everywhere are quietly being rebuilt on it. deepdives programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/why-we-build-with-svelte-5 https://siktec.xyz/lab/why-we-build-with-svelte-5 Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT After fifteen years of religious wars over frontend frameworks, one of them quietly solved the problem. A technical case for Svelte 5 - runes, the compiler, the benchmarks, and the honest tradeoffs - from a consultancy that ships across the stack. svelte programming deepdives https://siktec.xyz/lab/embedded-to-cloud https://siktec.xyz/lab/embedded-to-cloud Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most teams own one layer. We own the whole pipeline, from the C++ on a sensor to the pixel on a dashboard - because the worst bugs live in the seams between them. embedded deepdives https://siktec.xyz/lab/llm-inference-at-the-edge https://siktec.xyz/lab/llm-inference-at-the-edge Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Running language models in production is an engineering problem long before it's a product problem. What we've learned about streaming, prompt caching, batching, the self-host-versus-API decision, and the costs nobody puts on the slide. ai deepdives https://siktec.xyz/lab/industrial-automation https://siktec.xyz/lab/industrial-automation Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A project story about pulling real-time data out of decade-old industrial hardware and building a cloud monitoring layer on top - the protocols, the edge gateway, the OT/IT divide, and the surprises along the way. embedded projects https://siktec.xyz/lab/future-of-embedded https://siktec.xyz/lab/future-of-embedded Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT We've shipped Rust firmware on three production embedded projects. Here's the honest accounting - where it genuinely earns its keep, where C++ is still the right call, and what living with the toolchain is actually like. embedded programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/null-how-do-you-define-nothing https://siktec.xyz/lab/null-how-do-you-define-nothing Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Null pointers quietly do nothing at all - and that's exactly the problem. A deep dive into the origins, memory mechanics, and how C, C++, Rust, Go, Java, and Swift each tackle the absence of a value. deepdives programming https://siktec.xyz/lab/welcome https://siktec.xyz/lab/welcome Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT The founding entry for the Siktec Lab - a working journal from a small consultancy that goes deep on hard engineering. What we'll write about, why, and what kind of reader we're writing for. meta