28 stories tagged infrastructure, newest first.
109 points by pmoriarty | 63 comments
A blog post in which a longtime infrastructure engineer, skeptical of Kubernetes, explains its components and the reasoning and tradeoffs behind them.
18 points by prismatic | 27 comments
A Baffler essay by Kate Wagner on the decline and scarcity of public toilets and the problems this creates.
41 points by danso | 42 comments
San Francisco Chronicle article on California's $400 million project to protect Highway 140 into Yosemite from rockslides.
19 points by K7PJP | 3 comments
Website for the 2026 International Utility Locate Rodeo, a competition for utility locating technicians; the page returned a 503 Service Unavailable error.
158 points by Betelbuddy | 191 comments
The National news article reporting that the AI industry would need about $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the data centre build-out.
28 points by adrianhon | 39 comments
New Yorker article by Peter Hessler about Colorado's Million Dollar Highway, a dangerous road prone to rockfall and avalanches, and why it hasn't been fixed.
14 points by fagnerbrack | 7 comments
A blog post by Fagner Brack on Medium describing what an AI-native approach to software development with stable infrastructure looks like.
502 points by choult | 446 comments
BBC News article reporting that suspected sabotage caused major disruption to rail services in the Netherlands.
480 points by Sean-Der | 141 comments
OpenAI engineering blog post explaining how the company delivers low-latency voice AI conversations at scale.
537 points by RickJWagner | 507 comments
A Works in Progress magazine essay explaining why Japan's railway system is so effective.
495 points by hahahacorn | 226 comments
Engineering at Meta blog post announcing Meta's renewed investment in and commitment to maintaining the open-source jemalloc memory allocator.
486 points by Meetvelde | 217 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure choices the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
399 points by crescit_eundo | 96 comments
Practical Engineering blog post and video explaining the engineering behind airport runways, including their design, pavement, and safety features.
423 points by dvrp | 98 comments
HackerNoon article by Bruce Li examining the Internet Archive's infrastructure and its efforts to preserve the web, including the Heritrix crawler.
414 points by efskap | 92 comments
Open Infrastructure Map is an interactive globe map showing power lines, telecoms, oil, gas and other infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data.
507 points by kasabali | 206 comments
F-Droid blog post announcing donation-funded replacement of its core server hardware and how the new server impacts the project.
330 points by xrayarx | 483 comments
A Guardian Sunday read by environment reporter Helena Horton examining why England is facing water shortages.
396 points by axelfontaine | 355 comments
Rail News Vista article reporting that Finland plans to migrate its broad-gauge rail network to the international standard gauge.
335 points by BillFranklin | 186 comments
Blog post by Bill Franklin describing moving Kubernetes infrastructure to Hetzner and cutting hosting costs by about 75%.
424 points by filiptronicek | 264 comments
Gitpod blog post explaining why the company is moving its cloud development environment platform away from Kubernetes.
471 points by impish9208 | 292 comments
Practical Engineering blog post and embedded video explaining the hidden engineering behind modern landfills.
685 points by repelsteeltje | 509 comments
An X (Twitter) post reporting the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland; the post content did not load.
512 points by pinser98 | 201 comments
Figma engineering blog post by Sammy Steele describing how the databases team scaled Figma's Postgres infrastructure, including horizontal sharding.
456 points by Lwrless | 128 comments
Fly.io blog post describing how they provision WireGuard peers just-in-time across their gateway infrastructure.
980 points by slyall | 536 comments
A blog post reviewing infrastructure decisions the author endorses or regrets after four years running infrastructure at a startup.
910 points by graypegg | 230 comments
Tyler Vigen investigates why a pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 west of the Minneapolis airport, connecting Bloomington and Richfield.
395 points by dijit | 231 comments
Blog post by Cory O'Daniel on the Massdriver blog critiquing DevOps practices and arguing the industry has fooled itself for years.
654 points by Twixes | 269 comments
AlphaRail blog post explaining why railway tracks are laid on crushed stone ballast.