Merctechs Research is the engineering collective's open lab — where we profile runtimes, stress-test architectures, and publish what we learn. No marketing. Just measurements, trade-offs, and code.
Six domains where small engineering decisions compound into orders-of-magnitude differences in cost, latency, and reliability.
Consensus, replication, and the real-world cost of consistency under partition and load.
Inference economics — quantization, distillation, and serving large models on constrained hardware.
Cold starts, allocator behavior, and squeezing predictable latency out of edge runtimes.
Streaming pipelines, backpressure, and schema evolution without downtime at scale.
Sandboxing untrusted code, key management, and the practicality of post-quantum primitives.
Build systems, observability, and the ergonomics that decide whether a team ships fast.
How we cut cold-start latency from 340ms to 94ms by rethinking isolate warm-up, V8 snapshot reuse, and the allocator behavior nobody talks about.
A field report on 4-bit quantization, knowledge distillation, and the thermal budget that quietly governs every on-device inference decision.
We ran the same collaborative-editing workload through both a Raft cluster and a CRDT layer. The trade-offs were not where we expected them.
Open experiments with live telemetry. We publish methodology and raw numbers as each one resolves.
Measuring real-world token throughput from draft-model speculation across batch sizes 1–64 on commodity GPUs.
Benchmarking host-call overhead and memory isolation for running untrusted third-party plugins in production.
A dual-write + backfill harness for evolving Postgres schemas under live traffic with verifiable rollback.
Quantifying the handshake-size and CPU penalty of hybrid Kyber key exchange on edge nodes.
A small group of engineers who'd rather measure than guess. Everyone here writes code and publishes findings.
Distributed systems, backend architecture, runtime profiling.
Inference optimization, quantization, on-device models.
Sandboxing, cryptography, zero-trust architectures.
Streaming pipelines, storage engines, observability.
New field notes drop as the numbers come in — no schedule, no fluff. Bookmark the log.