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

Cloudflare Doesn't Cache Your HTML Unless You Ask

A 7%-to-90% cache hit rate case study, plus the staleness tax the write-up skips.

Article · 1w ago5

Your CDN Failover Plan Dies With the Dashboard

The November Cloudflare outage proved resilience starts with break-glass access and independent DNS, not a second CDN.

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Docker Hub Finally Does OIDC, but Only for Paying Orgs

Short-lived federated tokens replace registry PATs in GitHub Actions — unless you're on a free plan.

Article · 1w ago0

Kimi K3 Runs on 20,000 Rented Nvidia Chips

Moonshot's Alibaba compute deal shows how Chinese labs actually get frontier silicon, and why Kimi builders should care.

Article · 1w ago2

The Real Bottlenecks in Postgres Queues Aren't Where You Think

DBOS pushed a plain Postgres queue to 30,000 jobs a second — and vacuum wasn't the wall.

Article · 2w ago0

The Postgres Queue Ceiling Just Moved

DBOS reports 30,000 jobs per second — the real lesson is which optimization bought each order of magnitude.

Article · 2w ago0

Atomarine's Nuclear Data Centers Will Burn Gas First

The YC startup's real bet isn't reactors — it's shipyards, seawater cooling, and skipping the interconnection queue.

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Vercel Finally Does WebSockets — Mind the Asterisks

Fluid Compute now holds sockets open natively, but duration caps, fan-out, and Next.js are still your problem.

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KNOD Wants to Turn Your AMD GPU Into a DPU

New RFC patches let the Linux kernel JIT-compile packet programs straight onto GPU silicon, with no ROCm required.

Article · 2w ago0

Cloudflare Just Made AI Crawlers Declare Their Purpose

New per-purpose controls land on every plan, and September's defaults put bundled crawlers like Googlebot on notice.

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Cloudflare's New Crawler Rules Aim Straight at Googlebot

Every bot must declare Search, Agent, or Training by September 15, and mixed-use crawlers get the strictest rule.

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Google Split Its TPU in Two Because Agents Broke Inference

Cloud Next 2026's bifurcated silicon, flattened networks, and managed sandboxes reveal what agentic workloads actually demand.

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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Scales Once You Stop Trusting It

DBOS pushed 60K writes/sec through the primitive that took down Recall.ai. The difference is usage, not Postgres.

Article · 2w ago0

Iran Says It Destroyed an AWS Region. It Was Already Dead.

The cruise-missile claim is theater; five months of darkness in me-south-1 is the real story.

Article · 2w ago5

Your GPU Cloud Runs on Subprime Debt

The AI datacenter debt stack is real and already repricing — but the developer risk is counterparty, not contagion.

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