Google Cloud and Blackstone have unveiled a new joint venture aimed at building a large-scale standalone cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), marking one of the company’s clearest moves yet to expand its AI infrastructure beyond the traditional boundaries of Google Cloud.
The new company will offer “efficient data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google…
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is AWS's primary virtual machine service. EC2 provisions virtual servers (instances) in minutes, billed by the second, with a wide selection of CPU, memory, GPU, and network configurations. EC2 launched in 2006 and remains the bedrock compute primitive on which much of AWS is built.
Core concepts
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is AWS's object storage service. It stores arbitrary blobs of data (objects) in named containers (buckets), accessed over HTTPS via the S3 API. S3 is the original AWS service and the canonical example of an object store; its API has become a de facto standard supported by many other vendors.
Core concepts
Serverless is a cloud execution model in which the provider runs and scales the underlying compute, and the customer is billed only for actual usage (request count, execution time, memory). Despite the name, servers still exist; they are simply invisible to the customer. "Serverless" usually refers to functions-as-a-service (FaaS), but increasingly includes serverless databases, queues, and…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing platform, comprising more than two hundred services for compute, storage, networking, databases, machine learning, and other capabilities, billed by usage.
How it works
Resources are organized by region (a geographic area with multiple isolated availability zones) and by account. Identity and access are governed by IAM, which mediates every…
MixCraft connects Claude to Apple Music. The infrastructure post explains why the server is hosted remotely — Apple Music requires server-side JWT signing with a private key, so a local MCP server wasn't an option. This post covers the other side: the Apple Music integration itself, the adapter
Several months ago, I was looking for some new music and decided to give Claude a crack at finding me some new music.
i'm trying to make an album based playlist. It should consist of 3 (mostly) complete albums.
Right now I have Hum - Downward is Heavenward
I recently revisited a CDK project I published in late 2022 — cdk-private-rds-with-lambda — and ended up rewriting most of it. The original worked fine, but it carried complexity that didn't earn its keep: projen for project management, an EC2 bastion host for database access, password-based auth via