Real Data Architecture: Stockholm Data Cave

Need a retro-looking bomb shelter for your server, or are you a big fan of the Cheyenne Mountain scenes in WarGames?
The Bahnhof Pionen White Mountains hosting facility is a cave below Stockholm. You’d expect the sysadmin blogs to call it fit for a James Bond villain, but even the architecture blogs are a gaga. [...]

One Goat Down, One Goat To Go

Cliffy got excited about the Gävle Goat when his pal Derek emailed him about it all. Derek was in town, or something like that, and got caught up in the frenzy first hand: “Last year some other guy was a bit smarter, hitting it with a flaming arrow from a bow, and he wasn’t caught. [...]