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Every web server faces the same fundamental trade-off: how do you handle thousands of concurrent connections without drowning in context switches or deadlocking on disk I/O? In 1999, Vikram Pai, Peter Druschel, and Wolfgang Zwaenepoel answered this with “Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server,” introducing the AMPED (Asymmetric
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Last quarter, I caught a senior engineer burning through roughly $12 worth of Claude Opus tokens just to format a bash string manipulation script. It wasn't an isolated incident. Across our engineering team, developers were running AI-powered CLI extensions and IDE plugins with default, hardcoded settings point-blank pointing
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An AI feature can fail without crashing. The API may return a 200 response. The latency dashboard may remain green. The output may be valid JSON. Nothing appears broken from the infrastructure side. Then a customer reads the answer and realizes it is wrong. This is one of the stranger
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Welcome back to Projects of the Week, our weekly look at some of the most interesting products coming out of the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon. Here we feature projects that solve a real problem -- through better infrastructure, smarter automation, or a rethink of a workflow everyone tolerates, but nobody
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Earlier this year, I launched two websites, remote job boards with almost identical technical setups. One indexed reasonably well. The other was indexed briefly, then almost completely removed from Google. The comparison has changed how I think about launching websites with large numbers of pages. The mistake, I believe, was
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At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google Cloud Code and Google Cloud Assist). We make software frameworks to help you build with AI, like
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When you download an app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, you assume the environment is heavily moderated and entirely safe. Unfortunately, we recently completed an audit of mobile VPNs that reveals significant privacy and security risks. Our evaluation identified apps on both app stores that put
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Just a few short years ago, General Motors and Ford were all-in on electric vehicles, spending billions of dollars on those efforts. Now, the two biggest American automakers are hardly talking about EVs with their investors. TechCrunch teamed up with Hudson Labs, a New York-based financial research firm, to analyze
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SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help
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Sticky notes are a great way to remind yourself – or others – of something important. But they're a bit wasteful. The Seeed Studio offers a modern alternative in the shape of a magnet-backed E Ink slab that uses AI to take voice notes. Sure, if you use a pencil
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Amazon's internal use of Anthropic's Claude Sonnet for a routine coding task appears to have cost the company $1.8 million, bringing it 9.6 times over budget. The project was supposed to link author data with Amazon product listings. Not only is it unclear whether
