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May 14, 2026
Failure numbers every programmer should know
Reliability napkin math for hardware, cloud services, and software defects.
May 2, 2026
Can an AI datacenter be beautiful?
Intelligence too cheap to meter. Industry too cheap to inspire.
Jan 9, 2026
20,000 healthy GPUs
How Modal does active and passive monitoring on hyperscalers and neoclouds.
Dec 14, 2025
The 10 best software podcast episodes I ever heard
Highly recommended listens from a podcast addict.
Dec 13, 2025
Larval stage support engineering: great at what doesn’t scale
The three core mantras of early support engineering success.
Nov 27, 2025
"A Foundational Result in Machine Learning"
Diving into single-layer perceptrons and basic information theory.
Nov 15, 2025
Gray’s ‘5 minute rule’ in the cloud era
If an item is accessed frequently enough, it should be main memory resident. For 1987 technology, “frequently enough” means about every five minutes.
Oct 26, 2025 Popular
More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
May 3, 2025
You should have private evals
Everybody should have a personal set of test prompts to try on LLMs.