#Infrastructure

The End of the AI Subsidy Era

As platforms bleed billions and hardware costs soar, developers must transition from infinite token burning to strict architectural frugality.

Article · 6d ago3

Why Memcached Wins by Refusing to Grow Up

Strict architectural limitations make Memcached the most reliable choice for stateless, high-performance caching in modern infrastructure.

Article · 6d ago1

The AI Tax is Starving the Legacy Memory Market

As AI data centers monopolize high-bandwidth memory production, the resulting DRAM shortage is driving up prices for even decades-old silicon.

Article · 6d ago1

Disaggregating LLM Inference: Inside AMD's ATOM and ATOMesh Stack

AMD's native ROCm serving stack splits prefill and decode to eliminate head-of-line blocking on Instinct hardware.

Article · 1w ago0

GitHub's AI Surge Pushes Microsoft Onto AWS

An agentic-coding load spike outran GitHub's Azure migration, forcing Microsoft to lean on its biggest cloud rival for headroom.

News · 1w ago5

Docker Compose vs Kubernetes: What Do You Actually Need?

A pragmatic guide to choosing the right container orchestration tool without drowning in unnecessary operational complexity.

Article · 2w ago0

The Mathematical Journey to Flat Datacenter Networks

From 1970s expander graphs to Penrose tiling, cloud architects are rethinking how we route packets at scale.

Article · 2w ago0

Meta Deploys AI Hardware in High-Tech Tents

To bypass grid queues and construction delays, Meta is housing billions in AI silicon under rapid-deployment fabric structures.

Article · 2w ago0

The AI Infrastructure Math Doesn't Add Up — And That's a Problem for Every Developer Building on Foundation Models

Ed Zitron's detailed financial breakdown of the AI industry makes a stark case: the foundation model layer your stack depends on is built on economics that may not hold through 2030.

Article · 3w ago0

xAI Is Becoming the Landlord of the AI Compute Stack — and That Matters for Developers

xAI's deals to lease GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google reframe it as infrastructure provider first, frontier lab second. Here's what that means for the APIs you're building on.

Article · 3w ago1

Designing Payment Infrastructure That Starts With the Threat Model

A technical deep-dive into process isolation, HSM-backed key management, and the architectural choices that shrink your PCI DSS scope before you write a single control.

Article · 3w ago0