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Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Cloudflare’s Data team explains how it reined in an exponentially growing analytics pipeline—rewinding retention, compression, and query patterns—so hardware and cost stay sustainable while more than 20% of the web sits behind its network.
10 min · 2,215 words
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Anthropic explains how merges to its monorepo grew from about 2,500 to over 30,000 per day in 2026, why git hosting became the bottleneck, and how it built and migrated to Scion, an in-house version control system, in five months, plus lessons and ideas for the wider git ecosystem.
16 min · 3,745 words
10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering"
Google announces a completely rewritten second edition of its Site Reliability Engineering book, ten years after the first: how SLOs, observability, automation, reliability testing, capacity management and SRE org models have matured, how SRE supports and uses AI, and why culture still matters.
3 min · 718 words
Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions for fast, consistent web app performance anywhere
AWS introduces Lambda Web Functions: run standard HTTP servers (Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js and other Node frameworks) on Lambda without event-handler adapters, with multi-concurrent requests, active CPU billing, one-command multi-region deploy and latency-based routing alongside Event Functions and MicroVMs.
5 min · 1,051 words
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic
Sammy Straus recounts how an HN post for sprinklz.io brought crushing AI-bot and change-monitor traffic, what showed up in NGINX logs, and the robots.txt, blocks, and rate limits that restored the site.
9 min · 2,034 words
How we built demo.usenotra.com
Notra founding engineer Jan Burzinski explains how every visitor to demo.usenotra.com gets an isolated workspace in about 0.4 seconds without signing up—using signed cookies, a Postgres sandbox pool, and a fake model—so people can try the product immediately.
8 min · 1,924 words
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture
Microsoft details the architecture of Maia 300, the third generation of its Azure Maia AI accelerator, built as a co-designed system of silicon, software, racks, networking and datacenters optimized for cloud-scale agentic LLM inference.
8 min · 1,750 words
Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun
BoxLite explains why every box runs in a micro-VM on libkrun today, why they are replacing it with an in-house VMM, and how this build-in-public series will walk through writing a VMM from scratch.
4 min · 984 words
What I Self-Host, What I Don’t, and Why
A personal tour of a mini-PC home server running 17 native and 11 Podman services under systemd — what the author self-hosts (media, photos, etc.), what they deliberately don't, and the reasoning behind each choice.
14 min · 3,240 words
Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site. For local, I have a [DAS](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-attachedstorage>) with two 14TB drives configured in a RAID 1 array[1](<htt...
3 min · 660 words
Oxide Computer Company announces a $445M Series D, opening with the milestone that ordinary operations made it pay income tax this spring, and explains why a profitable hardware company still raises: to keep accepting new demand, expand manufacturing capacity and build an enduring company.
3 min · 694 words
Ryan Dahl announces that the entire Deno team is joining Cloudflare, explaining how the move continues Deno's goal of simpler server software beyond the runtime, what it means for Deno Deploy and the open-source runtime, and why the new celld work focuses on Durable Objects.
2 min · 512 words
Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase
Phil Eaton interviews Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase and former Vitess project lead at PlanetScale, about 25 years of database scaling work, leading Vitess, sharding Postgres with Multigres, incidents she learned from, and what agents creating many tiny databases mean next.
6 min · 1,473 words
Unison Cloud is now open source
Paul Chiusano announces that Unison Cloud, which turns a pool of nodes into a distributed computer programmable in Unison, is now MIT licensed, newly open-sourcing the Nimbus worker node, the Haskell Cloud API server and the Unison Cloud UI alongside the existing client.
1 min · 291 words
The history of the Hetzner Cloud network stack
First part of a Hetzner series on the evolution of the network stacks behind Hetzner Cloud: how the stack developed to date and how the current Open vSwitch-based design works, including Private Networks and Cloud Firewalls.
9 min · 2,105 words
The people holding up the internet
A sheets.works data story that counts who actually maintains 23 pieces of software every phone, browser and server depends on. It finds 11 of 23 projects rely on one or two regular contributors, and tells the stories of maintainers such as Paul Eggert (time zone database), Lasse Collin (xz), Denis Pushkarev (core-js), Todd Miller (sudo) and the SQLite, zlib, bash and curl teams.
11 min · 2,571 words
Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait
Ryan McEntush of a16z explains why Texas paused new data center interconnections and permits after ERCOT's large-load queue hit 474 GW, much of it speculative, walks through grid interconnection, bring-your-own-power and flexibility as paths to hundreds of gigawatts, and argues for better rules, incentives and community trust instead of a blanket pause.
25 min · 5,707 words
64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
Let's Encrypt will move all subscribers to 64-day certificates by default on February 10, 2027 (with 45- and 6-day profiles available), staging first, as part of the industry shift to shorter lifetimes that reduce key-compromise and mis-issuance risk.
2 min · 416 words
Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks
Google's Chrome security and networking team explains how attackers hijacked the .gh, .sl and .as country-code TLD registries to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates, how Chrome blocked them via CRLSets and worked with CAs on revocation, and why domain owners should monitor Certificate Transparency and publish restrictive CAA records.
2 min · 574 words
Calling it quits on ServerFault
After just over 15 years as an elected ServerFault moderator since the first 2011 community election, SysAdmin1138 is stepping down at year end. The post recalls early cross-cultural flame wars that shaped moderator coverage and post locking, the site's decline from its 2011-2012 peak to 2-3 questions a day, and recent Stack Exchange-wide spam campaigns.
2 min · 536 words