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Edison's Revenge: Why Every New AI Data Center is Going DC

AC power has run data centers for decades. The AI era is killing it — and the math is brutal.

Meta just publicly admitted they buried jemalloc under technical debt and are trying to fix it. Here's why this actually matters.

On Feb 28, 2017, one wrong input turned a routine operation into internet theater.

Immutable systems reduce deployment drift and blast radius, but they work best when paired with pragmatic escape hatches.

Four practical AI signals from this week, with concrete moves for teams building production systems.

The Knight Capital outage is still the clearest argument for immutable infrastructure.

NTP is 40 years old, unsexy, and quietly holding your entire distributed system together. Here's what happens when it slips.

On a February morning, thousands of IT admins were locked out of their most sacred console. The Admin Center speaks.

On February 17th, 2026, YouTube's recommendation engine suffered a crisis of identity — and took 1.6 million users down with it.

SQLite runs on more devices than any other database engine in history. You've never been paged about it.

On October 21, 2016, the internet learned its lullabies came from cameras, and they sang in anguish.