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What Zero-Notice Disasters Taught Meta About Building Unbreakable Systems
How Meta tests for instant power loss across entire data centers and what it means for developers.
What Meta's PowerLoss Storm Teaches Us About Building Resilient Systems
How Meta tests for zero-notice disasters and why it matters for every engineer building distributed systems.
Nine Incidents in May: What GitHub's Outages Teach Us About Resilience
A technical deep-dive into GitHub's May 2026 incidents and what they mean for developers building on the platform
What I Learned From Meta's PowerOutage Tests on Entire Data Center Regions
A deep dive into Meta's Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm program and what it means for building resilient infrastructure.
AI's Water Problem: What Project Stratos Means for Developers
Kevin O'Leary's data center cutback reveals the hidden environmental costs of AI infrastructure that developers must confront.
SilverTorch and the Death of the Recommendation Microservice
Meta's new Index-as-Model paradigm replaces microservice retrieval with a single PyTorch neural network, and the implications for AI developers are massive.
The Anthropic-xAI Deal: When Compute Capacity Comes With Political Baggage
Anthropic's partnership with xAI's Colossus data center raises serious questions about supply chain risk, environmental concerns, and corporate accountability in AI infrastructure.
The Anthropic-xAI Deal: When Compute Comes With Hidden Costs
Anthropic's partnership with SpaceX/xAI's Colossus data center raises serious questions about environmental responsibility and supply chain risk in AI.
The Colossus Problem: Why Anthropic's Data Center Deal Raises Red Flags
Anthropic partners with xAI for compute capacity, but the environmental and political baggage of Colossus datacenter poses real risks for developers.
The Anthropic-xAI Deal Exposes a Uncomfortable Truth About AI Infrastructure
Anthropic's Colossus deal reveals how compute constraints force AI companies into ethically questionable partnerships, and what it means for developers.
The Great Data Center Reckoning: Why AI's Infrastructure Crisis is Everyone's Problem
AI's explosive growth demands massive data centers. But communities, regulators, and even hostile nations are pushing back. Here's what it means for developers.
Meta's HSM Vault: Why Over-the-Air Key Distribution Actually Matters
Meta's new fleet key distribution mechanism for Messenger's encrypted backups reveals a fundamental tension between security and operational flexibility.
Meta's HSM Vault: Why Cryptographic Transparency Matters More Than the Encryption Itself
Meta's HSM-based backup vault gets over-the-air key distribution and public deployment evidence. The real story is about verifiable trust, not just encryption.
Meta's HSM Vault: The Infrastructure Behind Encrypted Backups You Actually Can't Access
Meta's publishing cryptographic proof of their HSM deployments. Here's why this matters for encrypted backups and what developers should know.
GitHub's eBPF Solution to the Circular Dependency Problem You Didn't Know You Had
How GitHub uses eBPF to detect circular dependencies in deployment scripts, preventing catastrophic incidents when systems depend on themselves to recover.