Least privilege, actually applied
Everyone agrees with the principle. Almost nobody has checked what their service can actually reach.
#infrastructure
25 pieces tagged infrastructure,
from January 23, 2025 to September 25, 2026.
Secrets management, practically
Not a survey of vaults. The specific practices that actually reduce risk, in order of what to do first.
The crawler tolls, one year on
Default blocking and pay-per-crawl changed who can read the web. An assessment of what actually happened.
The World Cup is the largest load test ever run
A month of synchronized global demand across three countries, sixteen cities, and every streaming platform at once.
Edge computing, honestly
Running code close to users is a real win for a narrow set of workloads and a complication for everything else.
Compression is underrated
The cheapest performance win available, ignored because it is not glamorous. Where it pays and which algorithm to pick.
The queue is the architecture
Most scaling problems are solved by making something asynchronous. Most reliability problems are caused by doing it badly.
You still do not need Kubernetes
It's excellent software solving a real problem that most teams do not have. The honest threshold, and what to do below it.
Infrastructure as code, ten years of lessons
State files, drift, modules that became frameworks, and the one practice that separates teams that like their IaC from teams that don't.
The state of self-hosting
Running your own infrastructure got dramatically easier while the industry was arguing about the cloud. A practical assessment.
HTTP/3 and QUIC, five years in
It shipped, it works, most of the web uses it, and almost nobody understands what changed. A practical review.
GTC 2026 and the rack that draws a megawatt
New silicon, new interconnect, and an industry where the unit of purchase is a room rather than a card.
everything else tagged #infrastructure 13
- Streaming an Olympics: the hardest scaling problem nobody discussesessay
- The electricity bill arrivesnews
- Post-quantum migration is a 2026 projectnews
- CES 2026: the power supply is the productnews
- re:Invent and the year of the boring cloud announcementnews
- Nvidia's quarter and the question nobody can answernews
- Cloudflare falls over because of a config filenews
- us-east-1 goes down and takes a large chunk of the internet with itnews
- OpenAI and Nvidia sign a circular dealnews
- Cloudflare flips the default and starts charging crawlersnews
- Google Cloud Next: Ironwood, A2A, and a very cheap Gemininews
- GTC 2025: a roadmap to 2027 and a warning about powernews
- Stargate is a $500 billion bet on a bottlenecknews