Infrastructure

19 articles about infrastructure.

New Startups Building AI Agent Infrastructure in 2025 and 2026

·12 min read

A practical survey of the new startups building AI agent infrastructure across Linux, desktop, and API layers in 2025 and 2026, with technical comparisons and architecture patterns.

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Running AI Agent Swarms on Kubernetes

·2 min read

How to deploy AI agent proxies on GKE, handle websocket defaults that break long-running connections, and scale agent swarms without losing state.

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AWS Q4 2025 Results - What $35B Cloud Revenue Means for AI Agent Infrastructure Costs

·5 min read

AWS grew 24% to $35.6B in Q4 2025 with 35% operating margins. Here's what that margin story means for developers building AI agent infrastructure and how to avoid the cloud cost squeeze.

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API Endpoints That Stay Alive - Health Checks, Heartbeats, and Warm Connections

·7 min read

A 200 OK response means almost nothing. Here is how to implement real health checks, application-level heartbeats, and connection pooling that keep AI agent integrations reliable - with working code examples.

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AWS Certification That Changed Architecture

·2 min read

Certifications teach what a platform can do. Building teaches what it should do. Both matter for AI agent infrastructure decisions.

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Mapping AI Agent Permissions in Cloud with Graph-Based Inventories

·6 min read

How Cartography and graph-based tools map AI agent permissions, blast radius, and access patterns across AWS, GCP, and Azure before a security incident forces you to.

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Uptime Lies - Co-Failure Patterns in AI Infrastructure

·3 min read

Five services sharing the same Postgres instance all report 99.9 percent uptime individually. But when the database goes down, they all fail together.

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Why We Still Don't Have a Proper Control Plane for LLM Usage

·5 min read

LLM API costs need the same control plane infrastructure that manages cloud compute: rolling budgets, automatic model downgrade, per-project quotas, and real-time analytics. Here is how to build one now.

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Data Availability Transfer Notes: The Hidden Bottleneck

·2 min read

Data availability is the hidden bottleneck in AI agent systems. Agents stall not because they lack capability, but because the data they need is not

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DevOps Is Mostly Glue Scripts - And AI Agents Are Great at That

·2 min read

Day-to-day DevOps at startups is writing automation scripts that connect services. AI agents that can operate your desktop turn this glue work into

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The Infrastructure That Makes Agent Networks Possible

·2 min read

Shared state, not communication, is the bottleneck for agent networks. Agents that can read and write to common state without coordination overhead

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Invisible Infrastructure in AI Agent Systems - The Scripts That Run Silently

·2 min read

The best AI agent infrastructure is invisible until it breaks. Understanding the cron jobs, daemon processes, and silent pipelines that keep agent systems

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The Missing Tools in the AI Agent Ecosystem

·2 min read

AI agents need tools that do not exist yet - universal UI element inspectors, cross-app state managers, and reliable desktop APIs. Here is what is missing.

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Keep Your SaaS Stack Simple - Lessons from Building a macOS Desktop App

·2 min read

Vercel, a single Postgres instance, and basic logging. When your product is a macOS desktop app, a simple stack lets you focus on the product instead of

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Singapore as a Safe Host for AI Agents

·6 min read

Singapore delivers 99.999% uptime, sub-50ms latency to 600M+ people, and stable tech regulation. For always-on AI agents where interrupted workflows are worse than slow ones, infrastructure reliability beats cheap compute.

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Supabase Auto-Pause - Free Tier Limits and Health Checks That Actually Write

·2 min read

Supabase free tier databases auto-pause after inactivity. Read-only health checks do not prevent this. You need health checks that perform writes to keep

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What Actually Makes Agent Networks Work - The Boring Stuff

·2 min read

The boring infrastructure - health checks, retry logic, queue management, logging - is what separates agent demos from agent systems that run in production

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Your AI Agent Needs a Control Plane - LLM Routing, Token Budgets, and Fallbacks

·3 min read

Why AI agents need infrastructure for routing between Claude and local models, tracking token budgets, retrying with fallback, and audit logging.

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Running an AI Desktop Agent 24/7 on a Mac Mini

·2 min read

How to run an AI automation agent around the clock on a Mac Mini M4. launchd vs cron, context management, and overnight batch processing.

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