TikTok Oracle Deal: Security Fix or Expensive Theater?
Oracle takes control of TikTok U.S., but ByteDance keeps the algorithm. Is this national security or expensive theater?
Alphabet Buys $4.75B Energy Co: AI Power Bottleneck
Alphabet just paid $4.75 billion for Intersect Power, and it’s not buying another AI model ...
Cloud Cost Waste 2025: $723B Spent, 32% Wasted
Global cloud spending will hit $723.4 billion in 2025—a 21.4% jump from 2024—yet organizations continue ...
Monolith vs Microservices 2025: When Amazon Cuts Costs 90%
Amazon Prime Video cut infrastructure costs by 90% after ditching their microservices architecture for a ...
Kubernetes Overprovisioning Crisis: 99.94% Waste Resources
Kubernetes clusters are running at just 10% CPU utilization. That’s down from 13% last year. ...
Logging Infrastructure Cost Crisis: $140K Waste + 15% Budgets
Logging infrastructure is consuming 15-20% of infrastructure budgets with logs alone accounting for 50% of observability spending, according to Gartner research. Organizations routinely ...
Self-Host Postgres: Cut AWS Costs 40-60%, Not Hard
Pierce Freeman’s article “Go ahead, self-host Postgres” hit the top of Hacker News this week ...
Run Your Own AI Cluster at Home: exo Cuts Cloud Costs
A new open-source project is challenging the assumption that AI infrastructure requires cloud providers and ...
Self-Hosting Postgres vs RDS: The $379/Month Lie
AWS RDS pricing hides 75-88% markups. HN debate reveals hidden costs, ops myths, and when ...
Cloud Waste Crisis: $44.5B Wasted on Unused Infrastructure in 2025
Enterprises will burn $44.5 billion on cloud infrastructure they don’t use in 2025—21% of all ...