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Nydus + JuiceFS: Reducing Container Startup Time for AI Inference from 116s to 1.4s

In large-scale AI inference services, when a cluster scales out, newly added inference instances must go through a series of cold-start steps before they can serve requests: container image preparation, file system mounting, runtime and inference framework initialization, and model weight loading. As image sizes and model weights continue to grow, the time spent on data preparation becomes…

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Hooks: Steer Your Agent Before the LLM Call

Small feature, outsized leverage: Dapr Agents lets you register hooks around the agent loop where the before_llm_call being the one I use the most.

  • Dapr Agents allow registration of hooks around agent loop.
  • "beforellmcall" hook adds live context before LLM call.
  • Hooks must be replay-safe and deterministic or not.

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