DatacenterDude

Nick Howell

Nick Howell reads DatacenterDude.com aloud. Audio versions of the essays, blogs, and newsletter issues. AI infrastructure, data-center reality, and notes from 30 years in the fight.

  1. 22 jun

    It’s 2AM… Do You Know What Your Agents are Doing?

    AI agents make decisions in your infrastructure. Here's what to observe, why it matters, and where the tooling stands today for infrastructure teams.

    It’s 2AM… Do You Know What Your Agents are Doing?

  2. 21 may

    Free Money Got You Fired | DCD Dispatch #03

    The AI transformation eliminating jobs across tech didn't start with AI. It started with a government check nobody had to pay back, and a narrative that made the cleanup easier to sell than the truth.

    Free Money Got You Fired | DCD Dispatch #03

  3. 13 may

    Productivity Dependency Outpacing Governance

    We've watched this pattern play out across four generations of enterprise IT. AI tooling is next, and this time there's nothing to repatriate.

    Productivity Dependency Outpacing Governance

  4. 11 may

    Mainframes! We Are SO Back, Baby!

    Fifty years ago, enterprise computing lived on one box. Then the PC arrived, and we spent the next five decades distributing everything that wasn't nailed down. Client/server. Virtualization. Containers. Cloud. The mainframe became a punchline. Turns out it was just patient.

    Mainframes! We Are SO Back, Baby!

  5. 7 may

    Europe Just Hit Cancel | DCD Dispatch #02

    Europe is in the middle of a coordinated rebuild of the software stack out from under American hyperscaler dependency. The licensing extortion got the procurement teams' attention. The open source apps and the sovereign cloud are finally ready.

    Europe Just Hit Cancel | DCD Dispatch #02

  6. 6 may

    Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement

    Defunct startups are selling Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads to AI labs for six figures. The privacy outrage and gold rush takes are missing the actual story: this is a data lifecycle failure infrastructure veterans solved 30 years ago, in a tier the SaaS vendors quietly excused themselves from governing.

    Your Slack Workspace Trained Your Replacement

  7. 4 may

    That’s No Moon… it’s a LEO Datacenter

    "Look at the size of that thing." Eight orgs racing to orbit. A million satellite filings in a single week. The pitch only works if three things all go right.

    That’s No Moon… it’s a LEO Datacenter

  8. 27 abr

    Cloudflare Unweight is actually a Storage Problem

    Cloudflare's new lossless LLM compression tool isn't really an AI story. It's a storage architecture story applied to GPU memory.

    Cloudflare Unweight is actually a Storage Problem
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Nick Howell reads DatacenterDude.com aloud. Audio versions of the essays, blogs, and newsletter issues. AI infrastructure, data-center reality, and notes from 30 years in the fight.

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  • Creador
    Nick Howell
  • Años de actividad
    2026
  • Episodios
    17
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