Infrastructure Directory

Logging Sucks

Boris Tane's argument that traditional logging is broken for distributed systems and that "wide events" — one comprehensive, high-cardinality structured event per request per service — are the fix. Log what happened to the request, not what your code is doing.

It's Time To Rethink Everything

Theo Browne's CascadiaJS 2026 talk arguing that AI is a "new cloud moment" — just as the cloud removed the cost of provisioning servers, agents remove the cost of building, so the sacred rules of software (file systems, codebases, packages, git, deployment) are worth tearing down and rebuilding from first principles.

Infisical

Open-source security platform for developers and AI agents — secrets management, certificate management (PKI), and privileged access (PAM) under a single identity model with unified auditing.

Amazon SES

AWS cloud email service for sending transactional and marketing messages via API or SMTP at pay-per-use pricing.

Axiom

Observability platform for logs, traces, and AI engineering telemetry with petabyte-scale ingestion and zero sampling.

Cloudflare AI

Serverless GPU inference and agent infrastructure running on Cloudflare's global edge network.

Cloudflare Email Routing

Free email routing service that forwards custom domain addresses to any inbox with optional Workers processing.

IPWarmup

Provides pre-warmed SMTP servers with established sender reputation so campaigns can start at full volume.

MailReef

Dedicated cold email sending infrastructure with private SMTP servers, dedicated IPs, and unlimited mailboxes.

PlanetScale

Managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database platform with branching workflows for zero-downtime schema changes.

Turso

SQLite at the edge with unlimited lightweight databases, concurrent writes, and no cold start penalties.

Vercel AI Gateway

Unified endpoint to route requests across hundreds of AI model providers with built-in failover and observability.