archive · 2026

writing.

Notes, essays, build logs — work-in-progress thoughts, written in plain text and read in any font.

$ ls /writing·2 entries·last commit 2026-06-07
all 18engineering 5dev-tools 4security 3ai 2infra 2css 1linux 1
infra

Google Can't Build Compute Fast Enough. So It Rents.

Google committed $180B in capex this year and still had to rent xAI's GPUs for Gemini. The AI compute crunch is real, even for the cloud.

2026·06·074 min · 974 words
infra

Microsoft Open-Sourced Durable Execution in Postgres

Microsoft open-sourced a durable execution engine inside Postgres. If your job state is already there, maybe your orchestration should be too.

2026·06·065 min · 1,019 words
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archive · 2026

writing.

Notes, essays, build logs — work-in-progress thoughts, written in plain text and read in any font.

$ ls /writing2 entries · last commit 2026·06·07
all 18engineering 5dev-tools 4security 3ai 2infra 2css 1linux 1
infra2026·06·07

Google Can't Build Compute Fast Enough. So It Rents.

Google committed $180B in capex this year and still had to rent xAI's GPUs for Gemini. The AI compute crunch is real, even for the cloud.

4 min read·974 words
infra2026·06·06

Microsoft Open-Sourced Durable Execution in Postgres

Microsoft open-sourced a durable execution engine inside Postgres. If your job state is already there, maybe your orchestration should be too.

5 min read·1,019 words
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$ exit 0 · too much coffee© 2026