Frontier communities
I run the Frontier communities, independent engineering communities on Reddit for assessing new cloud capabilities through tests, sourced analysis and discussion. They are not affiliated with Google, Amazon or Microsoft.
One community per cloud
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r/FrontierOnGCP
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on Google Cloud: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
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r/FrontierOnAWS
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on AWS: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
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r/FrontierOnAzure
GenAI, agents, RAG and security on Microsoft Azure: releases, hands-on tests, architectures, costs and limits.
Code and raw data for the tests are published in the GitHub organization frontier-on-cloud.
Field notes
Related articles on this site, with the full method and its limits.
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What “stop” does to an in-flight tool call on Gemini 3.8 Live
A measured test of the Gemini Live API: in 30 sessions, with text and speech, no cancellation arrived for a pending tool call, and BLOCKING mode booked twice.