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Backend PART 09

Log Levels and Cost: Sampling, Buffering and Changing Log Levels Live in Production

Log volume is set by your level configuration: the same 1000 requests produced 6.3 MB of logs at Debug and 246 KB at Information with Microsoft.AspNetCore=Warning. With real output we show random and trace-based sampling in Microsoft.Extensions.Telemetry, per-request buffering that writes Debug logs on failure, changing levels without a restart, and how sampling can drop Errors and buffers lose scopes and TraceId.

8 Nov 2026 12 min 4

Artificial Intelligence PART 06

Sampling in LLMs: Temperature, Top-p, Top-k and Seed

Why does the same question get different answers? We look at the model's candidate tokens with logprobs, calculate how temperature, top-k and top-p reshape that distribution, and see the promise and the limits of a seed, num_predict and stop sequences with real output from gemma3:4b.

6 Nov 2026 12 min 14