May 26 · 8 min read · Why Your MQTT Client Is Silently Losing Messages (And How I Fixed It) I learned this the hard way. I was building a sensor system for a field deployment — Raspberry Pi units publishing temperature and
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May 5 · 7 min read · Gartner recently coined a new term: geopatriation. They're predicting that 75% of European and Middle Eastern enterprises will move workloads out of global clouds and back to local or sovereign environments by 2030, up from less than 5% today. The in...
Join discussionMay 5 · 4 min read · The below is a continuation of the series on the history of Expanso. Today, we're talking about the second of the three unchangeable laws of data - the speed limit. Read the whole series starting from Part 1. The History of Expanso (Part 5): The Unbr...
Join discussionMay 5 · 5 min read · Data’s 1971 Moment In 1971, knowing how to assemble a magazine spread with an X-Acto knife was a career-defining skill. Art directors spent years mastering the geometry, the wax, the precise cuts. Then desktop publishing arrived. By 1985, Aldus Page...
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May 5 · 7 min read · LET'S SAY you're a hot new drone company. Doing, I don't know, crowd counting at festivals. One 4K camera generates roughly 45 gigabytes of footage per hour. That’s your baseline. Add additional sensors (battery, motor, LiDAR for terrain mapping, the...
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May 5 · 9 min read · UPS could deliver your Amazon package on a cargo e-bike. In most cities, for most packages, this would actually be faster. No parking. No traffic. Straight to your door. Instead, a 16,000-pound truck idles outside your apartment building while the dr...
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May 5 · 12 min read · Two weeks ago, a company filed paperwork with the FCC requesting permission to launch up to one million satellites into low Earth orbit. Not communication satellites. Not GPS. Data center satellites. Solar-powered, laser-linked orbital compute nodes,...
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May 5 · 7 min read · This week, Sam Altman announced that Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. The open-source project would move to an independent foundation. Meta had also bid. Both reportedly offered billions. Since then, the takes have been pre...
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May 5 · 7 min read · If you've spent any time in the distributed systems community, you know the feeling. You make a technical argument for years, back it with data, point to the architectural inevitability of it, and get polite nods from people who then go buy more cent...
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May 5 · 8 min read · There are approximately 6.4 million cell towers worldwide. Each one has power. Cooling. Backhaul connectivity. Permits that took years to obtain. Physical security. And right now, roughly 70% of their compute capacity sits idle. This week at Mobile W...
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