Q2 2026 All issues ·
SQ Stack Quarterly Quarterly deep dives on the tools real teams actually ship with.

Infrastructure

The infrastructure beat covers the layer that gets the least press and the most production incidents: vector databases, inference autoscaling on Kubernetes, when warehouse-side LLM work beats application-side, when Rust on the agent-runner earns its complexity, and the cost discipline that separates a working stack from a melting bill.

Coverage on this beat is benchmark-first when benchmarks make sense and methodology-first when they do not. The pieces include the configs.