Explained: AWS Fargate

You have a container. It runs on your laptop with a single docker run , it passes its tests, and it is ready for production. Then you open the AWS console to deploy it and the questions start. Which EC2 instance type? How many of them? Which AMI? Who patches the operating system next month? What happens when the cluster runs out of room at 2 a.m.? None of those questions are about your application. They are about the machines your application happ… Read More

Explained: Model Context Protocol (MCP)

You open your editor and ask the AI assistant why last night's build failed. A few seconds later it has pulled the CI logs, found the failing test, opened the commit that broke it, and checked whether anyone already filed a ticket. You never pasted a single log line into the chat. Not long ago, that kind of reach had to be built by hand. Someone wrote code that taught this particular assistant to talk to this particular CI system, then did it… Read More

Explained: Machine Payments Protocol

You find an API that does exactly what you need. You only want to make a handful of calls to see if it works. Before the first request goes out, you are creating an account, confirming your email, entering a credit card, choosing a pricing tier and copying an API key into an environment variable. Ten minutes of paperwork for a few cents of usage. Now picture an AI agent in the same position. It is halfway through a research task and hits a paid d… Read More

In Focus: The Data Center Backlash Becomes an Election Issue

Information in this post reflects publicly available sources as of August 19, 2026. A party asks an industry for a favor Political parties usually tell industries what to do. This week the direction reversed. On August 18 the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a private memo, headlined around Ohio data center risk, to leading AI companies. Axios obtained it and published the following day. The memo argues that Democrats have made data ce… Read More