Cloud & Infra

Infrastructure that ships product. Cloud platforms, serverless, containers, databases, and deployment — the releases and architecture shifts that change how and where your code runs.

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A Dead Vendor Is Holding 70 Years of PBS Footage Hostage

Nine PBS's 50TB archive sits intact in a Denver data center it can't legally touch.

Ji-ho Choi

Your Cloud Vendor Died. Who Owns the Servers?

Nine PBS's fight with Iron Mountain over 50TB of stranded archives exposes the custody gap in every backup plan.

Article · 4h ago0

Oxide Is Building the Cloud Contract On-Prem Kubernetes Lacks

Three provisioning paths and a cloud controller manager land now; native load balancing and CSI storage come later.

Article · 7h ago1

One Stale Index Hint Broke GitHub Pull Requests

Today's 25-minute outage was small, but its root cause says a lot about GitHub under AI-era load.

Article · 1d ago5

Your Mental Model of S3 Is Years Out of Date

Strong consistency, compare-and-swap, and real directories quietly turned AWS's blob store into a database substrate.

Article · 4d ago0

Stripe Auto-Heals Its Database Fleet with Dijkstra, Not LLMs

A fifty-year-old planning technique cut pager volume 30% across 2,000 MongoDB shards.

Article · 4d ago2

Stop Running LLM-Generated Code in Your Own Process

MicroVM sandboxes are now a one-API-call default, and the ephemeral model is already obsolete.

Article · 4d ago2

What Shopify's Redis-to-MySQL Swap Actually Proves

Inventory reservations survived a $5.1M-a-minute Black Friday on one row per unit and SKIP LOCKED.

Article · 4d ago0

Your Web App Is Too Professional to Self-Host

Production-grade architecture becomes a support-ticket generator the moment strangers run your code on their own boxes.

Article · 6d ago1

ECS Finally Learns to Schedule a Slice of a GPU

AWS closes a year-old gap for G6f slices — worthwhile for small-model inference, once you've done the pricing math.

Article · 6d ago0

Deno's Celld Breaks Durable Objects Out of Cloudflare

An S3 bucket replaces the control plane, and even the primitive's creator is cheering on the forks.

Article · 1w ago1

Cloudflare Wants to Be Your Agent's Bank

Wallets completes an agent-payments stack spanning identity, pricing, and money — even if almost none of it ships today.

Article · 1w ago4

Oracle Claws Back Half of Cloud's Best Free Tier

The Always Free Ampere allowance silently drops from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB to half that, with terminations looming.

Article · 1w ago1

Cloudflare Gives Away the AI Workspace to Sell the Cloud

The Apache 2.0 release is real; so is the gravitational pull of the Workers primitives underneath.

Article · 1w ago1

The AI Power-Bill Map Is Really a Market-Design Map

PJM's capacity-auction receipts show why bills spike near data centers, and why 23 states are rewriting the deal.

Article · 1w ago5

Kakehashi Runs macOS Binaries on Linux ARM, Wine-Style

A from-scratch Rust translation layer executes Darwin arm64 CLI tools natively, aiming squarely at the macOS CI tax.

Article · 1w ago2