Hyperscalers, such as Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent, have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud, Web, or mobile services to their global users. And though most practitioners may not directly build such hyperscale infrastructure, we believe it is beneficial to learn a bit about it. Historically, many widely used technologies have originated from advanced environments, including mainframes in the 1960s and hyperscale infrastructure in the past...