Infrastructure

Developer Tools 6 min One cron line, three different answers Ask three tools how often 0 0 */2 * 1 runs in September 2026 and you get two firings, seventeen, or four. Cron... KE Kenji Tanaka 3 Sep Sustainability 7 min Four Fifths of Yuma's Battery Swaps Are Still for Its Own Parent A captive network is a good way to reach scale and a poor place to stay. The external share, not the swap coun... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Sep Developer Tools 5 min How to Back Up a Docker Stack Every self-hosting guide ends by telling you to back it up and none of them say how. Three things live in diff... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Developer Tools 5 min What Your Monitoring Costs the Database Metadata queries are expensive because the server assembles the answer by walking itself. Measured on producti... KE Kenji Tanaka 23 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Sixty Percent of Your Reads Use No Index A database either uses an index to find rows or scans the table, and on a small table the scan is the right ch... KE Kenji Tanaka 23 Aug Developer Tools 5 min Your Scheduler Has Never Reported a Failure Fifty-nine thousand runs, forty-four commands, zero failures — because for background tasks the failure path r... KE Kenji Tanaka 23 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min 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 arti... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min 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 stat... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min 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... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 7 min 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... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min 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... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cloud & Infra 4 min 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 sa... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cybersecurity 5 min Three DNS Records Almost Nobody Publishes DNSSEC, CAA and MTA-STS each protect people who will never know they exist. Across 18 major ASEAN banks, gover... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Your AI API Call Leaves the Country From a server in Singapore, OpenAI's API accepts a connection in 6.2ms and takes 237ms to say anything. Anthro... MA Maya Lin 19 Aug Developer Tools 6 min Your Bank Is Still on IPv4 We asked DNS whether 18 institutions across six ASEAN economies — the largest bank, the government portal and... MA Maya Lin 19 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min Your VPS Bill Is Going Up Because of Somebody Else's AI OVHcloud will raise server prices by up to 87 per cent. The RAM it buys has risen sixfold in a year and is hea... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 11 Aug Statistics 6 min It Was Not a Fivefold Rise in Terabit DDoS Attacks. It Was Sixfold. Cloudflare mitigated 935 attacks above 1 Tbps in the first half and reported a 519 per cent quarterly rise. A... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Finance 6 min The Card Networks Just Agreed to Run Nodes on a Blockchain Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, ICE and BlackRock are among eleven founding validators on Circle's Arc. Fees are paid... SA Sarah Chew 11 Aug Sustainability 6 min Nuclear Reactors Are Going to Sea. Nobody Has Agreed Who Licenses Them. The IAEA launches ATLAS in Washington this month, covering nuclear-powered ships and floating power plants. Th... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 11 Aug Science 7 min Japan Launched Its Seventh Navigation Satellite. It Is Flying Six. MICHIBIKI No. 7 reached orbit on Tuesday morning, completing the launch manifest for a seven-satellite design.... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Business 8 min Tesla and SpaceX Committed $16.8bn to a Chip Fab. The Rest Is Description. Phase one is a real number with a decision behind it. The 100 million square feet, the $119 billion and the te... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug Cybersecurity 8 min Water Systems in Twelve States Were Broken Into. The Fix Is a Budget Line, Not Advice. Water systems in at least twelve US states have been broken into, with attackers changing controller passwords... CY Cyber Team 9 Aug AI & ML 8 min AMD Is Buying a Chip That Runs One Model. The Number That Decides It Is Two Months. AMD is buying Taalas, a Toronto startup that etches a trained model's weights directly into silicon rather tha... AI AI Tools Desk 9 Aug Statistics 7 min Cloudflare Says Humans Will Be a Rounding Error. We Checked Our Own Logs and Could Not Tell. Cloudflare's CFO told analysts non-human traffic could reach a thousand times human traffic within five years... NA Nadia Rahim 9 Aug