Infrastructure & Cloud
Cloud strategy, data centers, connectivity and infrastructure trends relevant to Algeria.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Service Mesh in 2026: Cilium Wins, Istio Adapts, and eBPF Changes the Game
For three years, the service mesh debate was a religious war. Istio versus Linkerd versus Consul Connect.
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The Object Storage Price War: Cloudflare R2, Backblaze, and the Race to Free Egress
The Dirty Secret of Cloud Storage: Egress Fees Storing data in the cloud is cheap. Getting it back out is where the real bill arrives.
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Nuclear-Powered Data Centers: Microsoft, Google, and the AI Energy Gamble
The Energy Math Behind the AI Boom Training a large language model at the scale of GPT-4 consumes roughly 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity — enough to power thousands of homes for a year, burned in a matter of weeks. That figure does not include inference, the continuous
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eBPF: The Linux Kernel Technology Reshaping Cloud Networking and Security
There is a technology running silently inside the Linux kernel at Google, Meta, Netflix, and Cloudflare. It was not built to be trendy.
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The OLAP Renaissance: ClickHouse, DuckDB, and the Analytics Database Disruption
For most of the last decade, the analytics database market ran on a simple premise: if you needed fast answers on large datasets, you paid a cloud provider a great deal of money to do it for you. Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift dominated the space, charging by
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The Bare Metal Comeback: Why AI Workloads Are Leaving Virtual Machines
For a decade, the orthodoxy in enterprise IT was clear: virtualize everything. Abstract the hardware, share the resources, bill by the minute.
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API-First Backends: Supabase, Neon, and the Serverless Database Wave
Five years ago, spinning up a production-grade backend meant provisioning servers, configuring connection pools, writing authentication middleware, and managing database migrations — a week of work before you had written a single line of business logic. Today, a developer can
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Groq vs Cerebras 2026: AI Inference 100x Faster Than GPUs
When most organizations think about AI infrastructure, they think about Nvidia. The H100 GPU has become the default unit of AI compute — a $30,000 chip that powers everything from model training at OpenAI to inference pipelines at enterprise software companies.
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The Web Is Forking: How AI Agents Are Creating a Parallel Internet
Introduction For thirty years, the web has been built for human eyes. HTML pages with visual layouts, CSS styling, JavaScript interactivity — all designed for people sitting in front of screens, clicking links, scrolling pages, and processing visual information.
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Google’s Intelligence Infrastructure Play: Why They Don’t Need to Win the Model Race
Google just shipped the smartest AI model on the planet. It leads on 13 of 16 benchmarks.
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Algeria’s Academic Network: How CERIST Connects Universities and Why Research
CERIST and the Academic Research Network CERIST — the Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique — is Algeria's primary institution for scientific information infrastructure. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Algiers, CERIST operates under the
