Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on developer tools, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, software supply chains, and infrastructure trends. Articles under this byline help technical readers understand how tooling changes affect software delivery, security, cost, and reliability.

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Articles · Cloud & Infra Showing 11–20 of 34

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Cloud & Infra

Australia Agreed to Write Data Centre Rules, Not to Mandate Renewables

National Cabinet committed to mandatory energy, water and land-use standards by early 2027. Queensland and the Northern Territory blocked a renewables mandate, and gas-fired firming counts towards what remains.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

A 200 Is Not a Success

With the database stopped the homepage still returned 200, at a fifth of its normal text with none of its articles. Finding pages like that took two attempts: comparing them to their page type produced 15 flags and 0 real problems.

22 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Cloud & Infra

What Your Health Check Does Not Check

Four dependencies stopped one at a time on a running stack. Two of the outages left the health check, the status code and the homepage all green — and the search engine going down was rendered to users as an ordinary empty result.

22 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

What a Database Backup Does Not Contain

The media on one real system is larger than the dump that is supposed to protect it — 66 MB across 2,765 files against a 49 MB backup. Three quarters of those files have no database row, so a restore cannot even report them missing.

22 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

How to Prove Your Backup Actually Restores

A real 156-table database dumped, loaded into a throwaway server and compared. The backup was fine. The check reported 65 problems that did not exist, because it was reading statistics up to a day old — and estimates even when fresh.

22 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

What One Server Actually Runs

This publication — the live site, a full staging copy, an error tracker and its own CI runner — is four cores and 16 GB of memory, 42% used. What that actually holds, where the disk really goes, and the cases where one box is the wrong answer.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
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Cloud & Infra

How Much of the Internet the Big Clouds Hold

Add up Amazon's published address file and you get 188 million. The real figure is 101,829,252, because the same block is listed once per service and prefixes nest inside each other. What the big providers actually hold, computed properly.

21 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
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Cloud & Infra

How Far Away the Cloud Is From Singapore

A dropdown asks which region, and most people pick the familiar name. Measured from a server in Singapore, the closest region answers in 5.8 milliseconds and Sao Paulo takes 365.6 — sixty-three times as long for the same handshake.

21 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Tall orange warehouse racking holding palletised goods seen from below, illustrating a report on a maximum-severity flaw in an enterprise commerce platform.
Cloud & Infra

SAP Patched A CVSS 10.0 In Commerce Cloud, And Attacks Started In Three Days

CVE-2026-58231 lets an unauthenticated attacker run code through the Data Hub Adapter. Three days is unremarkable by 2026 standards, which is the problem: no ERP estate can be patched that fast.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Kioxia Takes an Optical SSD to Customer Trials, and Names the Obstacle

At the Open Compute Project summit in Taipei, Kioxia said a PCIe Gen6 optical drive is going to customer trials and that cost and reliability still block mass production. The candour is the useful part - and the real subject is distance, not storage.

16 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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