Sam Goodwin introduces Alchemy, a modern infrastructure-as-code tool built with Effect that challenges the tech debt of current solutions.
Risks, Global Challenges, and Strategy
You may not have to imagine a world where air conditioning uses more energy than computing for much longer. Also: As the Commodore turns.
Oracle’s form to access free cloud server space seems designed to discourage you from taking advantage of the offering. It’ll leave you frustrated.
Glauber Costa explains how Turso forks SQLite into libSQL to create a distributed database, drawing from his Linux kernel development experience.
Dax Raad presents SST as a TypeScript framework for AWS serverless development with superior developer experience over CDK.
What I learned about trying to run my own cloud from a few weeks of trying to run the whole dang thing myself. (Hint: I found myself trying multiple solutions.)
Scott Hanselman has a great take on platforms and ownership on the web: * Why doesn't someone make a free or cheap social network for the people? * Why can't I control my content? * Why can't I export everything I've written? [...] You want control? Buy a domain and blog there. His whole post is worth a read. But I think this goes far beyond blogging. The "cloud", at least as it's popularly thought of, is really just a user-friendly, web-based take on mainframe computing, which was super
In response to recent events, I’d like to propose a different kind of web service that overcomes the privacy and reliability issues with cloud web applications, while providing a solid business model for both application developers and service providers, as well as a seamless, easy-to-use experience for end users. The T-Mobile storm Over the weekend there’s been a storm surrounding the T-Mobile Sidekick, which is produced by Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary. It turns out the device stores the pri