Infrastructure Engineering: Systems, Networking, Databases & the Internet
Network architecture, internet protocols, database and systems design, and the infrastructure engineering decisions that determine whether real production systems hold up under load.
WordPress Blog Posts Deserve Better: Code Syntax Highlighting, Live Links to GitHub, Quality Charts and Mermaid Diagrams
The plugin behind this post: Download CloudScale Cyber DevTools (free, zip) | Read the documentation Most technical blogs treat everything that is not prose as an afterthought. Code is pasted in as a block of monospaced text, or worse, as a screenshot of an IDE. Architecture diagrams arrive as PNG exports from a drawing tool […]
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Starlink Mobile Just Bought the Piece of the Puzzle That Actually Matters
There is a post doing the rounds this week quoting Elon Musk’s view that SpaceX could eventually be worth orders of magnitude more than the entire global economy, with the familiar chain of asteroid mining, orbital factories, space solar and Mars freight offered as the route to get there. It is fun to read, and […]
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The End of the Lap Warmer: What Ditching x86 for ARM Would Save the World
You know the moment. You are forty minutes into a meeting that could have been an email, your laptop is perched on your knees, and somewhere around the third slide about “alignment” you realise your thighs are slowly being sous vided. The fans are screaming like a small jet trying to take off from your […]
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