eBPF at Scale: How Cloudflare Rewrote Its Data Plane Without Downtime
An 18-month migration that moved 100Gbps from iptables to a custom eBPF pipeline.
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April 2026
AI Infra Apr 22
The Hidden Cost of Running LLMs at the Edge
Thermal, memory, and network constraints of commodity hardware are forcing a rethink of AI job scheduling.
Storage Apr 21
AWS S4: Sub-Millisecond Object Retrieval at Exabyte Scale
Amazon's fourth-generation object storage tier promises 10x latency improvements over S3 Standard.
Compute Apr 21
RISC-V in the Data Center: Early Benchmarks from Meta's Pilot Cluster
First real-world throughput numbers from 500-node production pilot running internal services.
Observability Apr 19
OpenTelemetry's Growing Pains: Why Adoption Is Stalling in Monolithic Environments
We tested four OTel deployment topologies at high cardinality. Here's what the overhead actually looks like.
Open Source Apr 18
Cilium 1.16 Lands WireGuard Encryption for East-West Traffic by Default
The popular eBPF CNI encrypts pod-to-pod traffic out of the box, removing the need for a service mesh in many environments.
March 2026
Databases Mar 28
The Unbundled Database: How DuckDB Is Changing Analytical Workloads on Commodity Hardware
We benchmarked DuckDB against Redshift on identical datasets. The results surprised us.
Security Mar 15
Inside Fastly's Zero-Trust Migration: From VPN to SPIFFE in 14 Months
A detailed post-mortem of the credential sprawl problem that triggered the migration and how workload identity solved it.
Cloud Mar 4
GCP Autopilot Tiers Signal a Shift Toward Serverless Kubernetes
Google's new node class pricing model abstracts away machine types entirely. Here's what that means for cost modeling.