System Architecture

Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.

Compare how Startpage stacks up next to non-private search engines.

Disco is an open-source PaaS that turns any Linux server into a deployment platform. Get the git push workflow you love, without the per-app markup.

Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Innovation is a tricky subject. The precise details of how to do it are not well studied, at least not under the name “innovation”. In addition, multiple...

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Good DX helps developers build faster, but it’s not enough. Learn why component libraries fail teams and how to build design systems that truly scale.

What good architecture looks like, how to improve your skill at building it –and why Architects are not always the answer. Guest post by Matthew Hawthorne, who built large systems at Netflix & Twitter

A while ago I wrote an article about linting Markdown files with markdownlint. In that article, I presented the use case of linting the Markdown source files for this site. While manually running linting checks is fine—there are times and situations when this is appropriate and necessary—this is the sort of task that is ideally suited for a Git pre-commit hook. In this post, I’ll discuss Git pre-commit hooks in the context of using them to run linting checks.

Authors: Adrian Taruc and James Dalton

Drop in any well-typed Python function; the loop builds the tool schema and wiring for you. How I build dumb demos and experiments.

Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right.

No matter when or how often the nodes sync, they always end up with the same state.

Hi, I’ve been reading about Apache Cassandra since the last 2 weeks.

Updates on Tailscale's efforts to improve NAT traversal, for its client and for the web at large.

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

A deep dive into best practices for designing APIs today, including async patterns, structured code, deployment strategies, and performance tradeoffs—plus a subtle nod to FastAPI for rapid development.

Get started with the Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

Fully distributed PostgreSQL

a git collaboration platform, built on atproto

The exploration of design patterns is importantly a historical search. It is possible to tell [...]

How APFS is the first Mac native file system to have true inodes and inode numbers. What they are, and how you can use them in volume groups and different types of file link.

There’s a growing narrative in the web development community that Server-Side Rendering (SSR) is nothing more than an expensive burden on…