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A publication about the machinery under everyday software: the contracts between services, the queries behind a page, and the failures that only show up in production.

—ArchivePlacements

Sponsored placements

Stateless sells placements, labels them, and keeps them out of editorial judgement. This page says exactly what is for sale and what is not.

What is for sale

  • A placement on the front page — in the sponsored strip at the foot of the page, with a name, a link and one line of description.
  • A commissioned article — published at its own address, with one link of the buyer’s choosing, filed in the section its subject belongs to.

What is not for sale

  • A mention inside an editorial article.
  • Removal or rewriting of a published sentence.
  • A link without rel="sponsored", or without a label.

Rules that apply to every placement

Placements carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". They are labelled as sponsored where they appear. Commissioned articles keep their own address permanently — we do not retire them when a campaign ends.

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