MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant TodayWhy an IETF draft on MPEG-TS packaging for Media over QUIC matters for real broadcast workflows.

Red5 CEO Chris Allen explains why MPEG-2 Transport Streams still matter for live and broadcast infrastructure, and how a new IETF draft on MPEG-TS packaging for Media over QUIC (MOQ) aims to connect modern transport to existing contribution and distribution workflows.

Blog post · Streaming · Video · Networking · Infrastructure

Agent Executor, Google’s distributed Agent Runtime

Google introduces Agent Executor (AX), an open-source runtime for durable agent execution and resumption, paired with Agent Substrate for dense Kubernetes deployments.

Announcement · AI Agents · Infrastructure · Open Source · Engineering

Fancy Curl Sites

How nytpu built a terminal-friendly curl version of their site with ANSI styling, content negotiation, and practical notes for serving pretty pages to curl.

Blog post · Networking · Programming · Open Source · Infrastructure

I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 yearsWhat I learned operating ClickHouse at scale: the wins, the failures, and the lessons that only come from production experience.

Tinybird co-founder Javi Santana shares five years of operational experience running petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters, covering architecture decisions, the challenges of storage-compute separation, zero-copy replication trade-offs, and how the upgrade process evolved from a three-hour ordeal into a CI/CD-integrated routine.

Blog post · ClickHouse · Databases · Data Engineering · Infrastructure

Developing for Debugging

Dave Pacheco walks through how Oxide's control plane propagates DNS configuration and argues for building detailed observability tooling during development, so operators can see exactly what a distributed system is doing when something goes wrong.

Blog post · Software Engineering · Infrastructure · Networking · Developer Tools

All you need is Wide Events, not “Metrics, Logs and Traces”

Ivan Burmistrov argues that the three pillars of observability, metrics, logs and traces, cause needless confusion, and that a single system built on wide events, as he used at Meta with Scuba, can answer debugging questions, derive traces and metrics, and support cross-correlation and root cause analysis.

Essay · Infrastructure · DevOps · Software Engineering · Databases

What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?

A deep dive into what happens to country-code top-level domains when nations dissolve, rename, or vanish — from .su and .yu to the politics and technical inertia that keep dead TLDs online.

Essay · Networking · Infrastructure · History · Internet