Colossus
Google's distributed object storage system
Episodes
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#6004: Nobody Can Buy Unlimited AI InferenceEvery published tier, every reserved deal, every prepaid reservation — all bounded. Even Azure says it out loud: quota isn't capacity. -
#5828: Punched Cards: The 200-Year Reign of Cardboard ComputingFrom Jacquard's silk looms to NSA key tapes, how holes in cardboard ran the world for two centuries — and why we can still read them. -
#3431: How YouTube Stores 500 Hours of Video Every MinuteYouTube's videos are shredded, replicated across global servers, and stored at a cost approaching zero. Here's how. -
#1602: When AI Truth-Seeking Meets the LawExplore xAI’s shift to multi-agent systems and the massive hardware powering Grok 4.20, even as it hits a legal brick wall in Europe.