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.

Article 1h ago 0

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

Container or MicroVM Is Becoming Just a Flag

Pullrun revives an old promise just as AI agent sandboxing finally makes it urgent.

Article · 3w ago5

AI's Energy Problem Isn't Your Chatbot Query

The reassuring per-prompt numbers measure the chatbot era, just as agents change the math by 200x.

Article · 3w ago2

Framework's 192GB Desktop Is a Bet That Local AI Stays Sparse

Fifty percent more memory and seven percent more bandwidth only add up if you run MoE models.

Article · 3w ago2

$Hetzner Kubernetes Math Still Works After the Price Hikes$

Hetzner Kubernetes Math Still Works After the Price Hikes

A six-node HA k3s cluster now runs about EUR 57 a month, still less than an empty EKS control plane.

Article · 3w ago5

Linux Outsources the $ORIGIN Problem to BPF

A 21-patch binfmt_misc series makes interpreter selection programmable, finally giving Nix-style relocatable binaries a real path.

Article · 3w ago0

Eminent Domain Is the AI Buildout's Next Bottleneck

Landowner fights over what counts as 'public use' now shape where, and how fast, new cloud capacity gets built.

Article · 3w ago1

Database branches live in the storage layer

Copy-on-write under the block device turns full clones into cheap point-in-time forks.

Article · 4w ago7

Making hundreds of Postgres nodes look like one

Sharding solves capacity. The proxy is what keeps application code from drowning in it.

Article · 4w ago7

Telegram's Sticky Home-DC Architecture

A multi-DC messaging platform that prioritizes legal distribution and user affinity over pure geo-latency.

Article · 4w ago1

Telegram Serverless Cuts the Bot Hosting Tax

Co-located V8 isolates and a built-in SQLite store rewrite how Telegram bots get backends.

Article · 4w ago1

New York's Data Center Freeze Is a Bigger Bark Than Bite

The first statewide moratorium on hyperscale data centers matters politically more than it matters to your GPU capacity plans, at least for now.

News · 4w ago1

x86 ACE Specs Matrix AI, Silicon Still Far Off

A joint AMD-Intel outer-product extension freezes the ISA contract, but real cores are years away.

Article · 4w ago1

CUDA Without NVIDIA: What Actually Works

Drop-in translators, HIP, and SYCL solve different problems. Choose by binaries versus long-term portability.

Article · 4w ago0

VRAM Beats TOPS for 2026 Local AI GPUs

Memory capacity and bandwidth decide what models you can run; software maturity still decides how painful it feels.

Article · 4w ago2

Discarded Teslas Still Deliver Local AI VRAM

Enterprise cards at $60–200 remain usable for intermittent inference and training if you tolerate older stacks and power draw.

Article · 1mo ago0