#infrastructure
4 articles exploring infrastructure. Expert insights and analysis from our editorial team.
Articles
Crawshaw's 'I Am Building a Cloud': What a Tailscale Co-Founder's Solo Stack Implies for Platform Teams
David Crawshaw's exe.dev launched with $35M, giving platform teams a concrete alternative to the Kubernetes default that forces TCO justification for cloud-native overhead.
Stargate: Inside OpenAI's $100B Plan to Build AI Infrastructure
[The Stargate Project](/articles/microsofts-first-voluntary-buyout-in-51-years-reframes-how-big-tech-sheds/) is a $500 billion joint venture announced in January 2025 to build AI compute infrastructure across the United States—the largest private AI infrastructure commitment in history. Here's what's actually being built, who's paying, and what it means for the future of compute.
DNS-Persist-01: Let's Encrypt's New Model for Permanent Certificate Validation
DNS-Persist-01 is a proposed ACME challenge type that allows persistent DNS TXT records for certificate validation, eliminating the need for real-time DNS updates with each renewal as certificate lifetimes shrink to 47 days by March 2029 under CA/Browser Forum SC-081v3.
Tailscale Peer Relays: The Missing Piece for True P2P Networking
Tailscale Peer Relays became generally available on February 18, 2026, enabling high-throughput peer-to-peer relaying within your own infrastructure. This feature eliminates the performance bottleneck of DERP servers when NAT traversal fails, delivering true mesh networking even in restrictive network environments.