Observed arrival · 2026-09-04
The Scale-to-Zero Report
A technical dispatch that examines compute waste in the news and asks how each system might run with almost no standing infrastructure.
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The report uses technology incidents as case studies for a specific architectural question: how much of the system could be precomputed or delivered statically instead of running continuously? Visible examples include certificate-transparency-driven probing that may trigger Lambda charges and a Copilot outage lasting two hours and fifty-four minutes. The site identifies Michael Bissell as author and exposes an archive and RSS feed, while stating that its own pages use object storage and a CDN rather than a server, database, or runtime.
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