https://blackroad.io/blog Engineering insights on edge AI, distributed infrastructure, mesh networking, and sovereign computing. en-us Tue, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://blackroad.io/blog/52-tops-on-400-dollars https://blackroad.io/blog/52-tops-on-400-dollars Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alexa Amundson How we built a distributed AI inference cluster with two Hailo-8 accelerators, five Raspberry Pis, and a custom mesh network — delivering 52 trillion operations per second for under $400 in hardware. edge-ai hailo-8 raspberry-pi https://blackroad.io/blog/roadnet-carrier-grade-mesh https://blackroad.io/blog/roadnet-carrier-grade-mesh Sat, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alexa Amundson RoadNet: 5 access points, 5 subnets, WireGuard failover, Pi-hole DNS — a real carrier network running on $35 boards. mesh-network wireguard raspberry-pi https://blackroad.io/blog/self-healing-infrastructure https://blackroad.io/blog/self-healing-infrastructure Thu, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alexa Amundson Autonomy scripts, heartbeat monitors, and automatic service recovery — how we eliminated 3am pages. infrastructure self-healing automation https://blackroad.io/blog/roadc-language-for-agents https://blackroad.io/blog/roadc-language-for-agents Tue, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alexa Amundson Why existing languages fail for agent orchestration, and how RoadC solves it with Python-style indentation and first-class concurrency. programming-languages ai-agents language-design https://blackroad.io/blog/sovereign-computing-manifesto https://blackroad.io/blog/sovereign-computing-manifesto Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Alexa Amundson Your infrastructure should answer to you. Not a cloud provider. Not a vendor. You. sovereign-computing philosophy self-hosted