Bare Metal

The piece argues the cloud is not an abstract, weightless place but a physical building with walls, cooling pipes and power cables. A single overheated AWS data center last May took down Coinbase, and a one-character typo in a Cloudflare script made thousands of sites invisible, exposing the fragility of concentrating the web on a few hyperscalers. The author contends the industry is now paying for that centralization, with seasoned engineers quietly moving back to bare metal.