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Lua: The 278K Language Running 20% of the Internet
How a 33-year-old scripting language from Brazil quietly powers Roblox, Cloudflare, and billions of requests daily.
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How a 33-year-old scripting language from Brazil quietly powers Roblox, Cloudflare, and billions of requests daily.
150K orgs run Kafka. Most don't need it. Redpanda, NATS, and SQS handle 90% of messaging workloads at a fraction of the cost and complexity.
Sora cost $15M/day to run. Lifetime revenue: $2.1M. Context windows keep growing. The economics that decide which AI products survive.
Data centers consumed 415 TWh in 2024 — more than the UK. The IEA projects 945 TWh by 2030. Big Tech emissions are rising 23-60% despite net-zero pledges. Here's what's actually happening.
HashiCorp changed the license, IBM bought them, CDKTF got deprecated. Terraform is becoming the COBOL of infrastructure. Here's what's replacing it.
Our Datadog bill hit $47K/month. OpenTelemetry + LGTM stack replaced it for $1,200. The instrumentation war is over — OTel won.
Ollama peaks at 41 tok/s. vLLM hits 793. TGI is in maintenance mode. Here's the self-hosting guide I wish existed before I started.
99% of K8s clusters are overprovisioned. Average engineer cost: $158K. The YAML tax is real. Here's when K8s makes sense and what to use instead.
A $47K recursive loop went undetected for 11 days. MLOps can't monitor agents. The new operational stack for autonomous AI is emerging fast.
Every major open-source frontier model in 2026 uses MoE. A 120B model now fits on one H100. The self-hosting economics changed forever.
64% of enterprises use GitOps. ArgoCD: 60% of K8s clusters. Red Hat: 168x faster lead time. Complete guide with scaling challenges and solutions.
Gartner: 78% of large orgs have platform teams, on track for 80% by end of 2026. Backstage has 89% market share. The shift from DevOps to platforms.
Wasm cold starts in 40 microseconds vs 100ms for containers. 20x density advantage. 95% cost reduction. Production at Amazon, Adobe, Cloudflare.
IBM paid $11B for Confluent. 90% of enterprises adopt EDA. Kafka 4.0, Flink 2.0, and the Streamhouse vision are reshaping data infrastructure.