The Infinity Tech XI

May 19, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

🚀 Happy Monday!

Welcome to The Infinity Tech!

This week, we’re welcoming 18 new members to our growing tech community. Let’s dive into this week’s highlights with Galactic Sync – your quick and sharp roundup of the latest in Tech!

🛸 This week’s highlights:

🔹Gemini is coming to TVs and cars, eventually

🔹  Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

🔹 13 Ways to Optimize Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

🔹 How Load Balancing Algorithms Really Work ⭐

Tech News

🔹 Gemini is coming to TVs and cars, eventually

🔹Kubernetes 1.33: Resizing Pods Without the Drama (Finally!) 🎉

🔹7 Open Source Cursor Alternatives You Should Use in 2025

Tech Articles

🔹13 Ways to Optimize Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

🔹Using docker init to write Dockerfile and docker-compose configs

🔹What Is MCP and Why DevOps Engineers Should Start Using It

🔹MinIO: AWS S3, but free and open-source

🔹From CI to Kubernetes Catalog: Building a Composable Platform with GitOps and vCluster

Companies News

🔹 NewLimit raises $130 million Series B led by Kleiner Perkins alongside NFDG, Khosla Ventures, Human Capital and others

🔹Thoma Bravo Announces More Than $100M Strategic Growth Investment in HubSync

🔹AI Startup Metafoodx secures $9.4 million to combat commercial kitchen food waste

🔹TensorWave Raises $100M to Build the World’s Largest Liquid-Cooled AMD GPU Deployment

🔹 AutoStore OnePointOne robotic vertical farm taps automated cubic storage, supplying Whole Foods Market stores

🔹 Nvidia launches fully open source transcription AI model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 on Hugging Face

How Slack Supports Billions of Daily Messages

At peak weekday hours, Slack maintains over five million simultaneous WebSocket sessions. That’s not just a metric, but a serious architectural challenge.

How Load Balancing Algorithms Really Work ⭐

#72: Break Into Load Balancing Algorithms (3 Minutes)

LUC #86: Load Balancing Algorithms You Should Know

Plus, best practices to optimize API endpoints, understanding the OSI model, and the main components of Docker explained

Migrating to Postgres

Since early 2022, Motion was on CockroachDB. Cockroach has many qualities going for it: effortless horizontal scaling, especially when…

Open Source Repositories

🔹 Blinko is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI note-taking tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript.

🔹 Opik provides comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards to debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows.

🔹 Kubewall is a single binary Kubernetes dashboard to manage your multiple clusters.

🔹 HelixDB is a powerful, open-source, graph-vector database built in Rust for RAG and AI applications.

🔹 Provides interactive roadmaps, guides, and other educational content to help developers grow in their careers.

🔹 Airweave lets agents search any app.

🔹 Insufficient information is available about PortNote.

🔹 Sunshine is an open-source game streaming host compatible with the Moonlight client.

🔹 Insufficient information is available about ReactFlux

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“If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.”

Steve Jobs