Cloud & Infrastructure — Posts
13 posts on "Cloud & Infrastructure" by Shlomo Strauss — bilingual writing on technology, science, and business.
- Bambu Lab vs. the open-source community: a fight over who controls — Bambu Lab's push to lock its printers to official software has triggered a fierce backlash from open-source developers and right-to-repair activists,…
- Building a low-latency cloud infrastructure for algorithmic trading — A hands-on account of architecting a high-security, GPU-capable cloud server with 0.3 ms latency and cross-continental database replication for a private…
- How data center water use compares to the beef industry — A breakdown of xAI's Colossus 2 data center water consumption against hamburger production figures challenges the assumption that AI infrastructure is…
- How a Chinese entrepreneur seized millions of IP addresses meant for — A single entrepreneur obtained roughly 10 million IPv4 addresses allocated to Africa and now leases them globally, leaving the continent short of a…
- China's underwater data center runs on wind and seawater cooling — China completed the first phase of a subsea data center that uses ocean water for passive cooling and nearby wind turbines as its sole power source.
- The real reason 5G was built — remote cranes, not faster phones — A Chinese cargo port shows how 5G's near-zero latency and massive device density enable safe, real-time remote operation of heavy cranes and trucks.
- Setting up a physical home server — and why real server hardware — After rescuing an abandoned server from a client's storage room, the author explains what sets dedicated server hardware apart from ordinary PCs and how…
- Microsoft's new PC is just a gateway to a cloud-based Windows — Microsoft's Windows 365 Link is a thin-client device that offloads all computing to a cloud-hosted Windows instance, targeting enterprises seeking lower…
- From SSH terminal to a secured web hosting server: a full setup — A practical breakdown of deploying an AlmaLinux server with WHM/cPanel, covering security hardening, automated backups, and two-factor authentication.
- Cloud gaming vs. local hardware: does Nvidia GeForce Now make sense — Nvidia GeForce Now promises 4K/120fps gaming at a fraction of local hardware costs, but Israeli users face real limitations due to distance from European…
- WordPress hosting: why most sites overpay and underget — A thorough breakdown of the WordPress hosting market, offering practical conclusions to help site owners stop overpaying for poor service.
- How a server audit cut a small business's hosting costs in half — A full server audit for a small U.S. business uncovered security gaps, missing backups, and broken contact forms — all resolved within a month while…
- Why an external hard drive is not a real backup — On World Backup Day, a practical case for Google Photos cloud storage over external HDDs, including how Google's compression algorithm can shrink photo…