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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale pooling across every core — with benchmarks showin
Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus
Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler
PgDog is a connection pooler, load balancer, and sharding proxy for PostgreSQL. Scale Postgres horizontally without rewriting your application.
Workers Cache
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
Podman v6.0.0
We’re thrilled to announce that Podman v6.0.0 is now available! This major release brings a host of significant improvements and new features designed to enhance your container management exp…
How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.
CachyOS June 2026 Release
Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC, GCC Branch Prediction
NixOS 26.05
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
NVIDIA’s latest AI servers can run on coolant warmer than a hot tub — and that counterintuitive choice is one of the biggest efficiency leaps in data center history.
We’re making Bunny DNS free
Your DNS bill shouldn't scale with your traffic. So we removed query fees from Bunny DNS entirely. No per-request billing and no query limits.
MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
AWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycle control, state preservation up to 8 hours, no infrastructure to manage.
Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced that Energy Forge One LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to develop a co-located power facility in West Texas that will provide dedicated electricity to a Microsoft-operated data center under a 20-year power…
Google Hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Discover ENAS, the license-free enterprise storage platform featuring native ZFS, secure UniFi management, scalable petabyte-class capacity, multi-site backups, and shared iSCSI storage for modern business infrastructure.
How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
Every Browser Use Cloud session runs in its own Firecracker microVM on regular EC2. It starts in under a second and costs $0.02 per browser hour, down from $0.06.
Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released
Alpine Linux
Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)
I wanted to introduce a significant change we are making in Podman 6 for our machine function. To understand the problem and change, we first need to establish that Podman machine is based on a con…
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.
The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
How close to zero can you get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? A bootstrapper-friendly setup for under €10 a month.
Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Railway experienced a platform-wide disruption after Google Cloud incorrectly suspended our account, temporarily taking down all GCP-hosted infrastructure.
Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
Infomaniak transfers the majority of its voting rights to a Swiss public-benefit foundation. Your cloud remains sovereign, independent, and true to its values. Forever.
Claude Platform on AWS
The Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available, offering a new way for AWS customers to access the full set of Claude platform features with AWS authentication, billing, and commitment retirement.
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
If you run a server with cPanel or WHM, you need to read this carefully. On May 8, 2026 — just ten days after the cPanel CVE-2026-41940 authentication bypass was used to compromise 44,000 web hosting servers and deploy ransomware — cPanel quietly released a second emergency security patch. This one covers three new…
Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA
Learn how NVIDIA helped Unsloth to make fine-tuning AI models 20% faster with explanations and diagrams.
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter…
The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all
591 FCC-accredited test labs mapped across 28 countries. Location, accreditation status, TCB capability, and which labs face the Bad Labs ban.