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Infrastructure

Servers, backups, deployment, networking and the unglamorous machinery that everything else depends on.

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Why Don't We Build Data Centers in Antarctica?

Antarctica is cold, so why no data centers? Because data centers are factories, and factories need power, fiber, roads, spare parts, workers and permits.

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Why Don't We Build Data Centers in Space?

Free solar, no land disputes, no cooling towers. But space removes almost everything a data center needs: easy cooling, maintenance, upgrades and repair.

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Why I Created an Ultra-Simple MySQL Backup Tool

Backups shouldn't need dashboards, agents or cloud tokens — just a boring script, cron, and a compressed dump on another VM. The thinking behind mysql-backup.