System Architecture

Guide to zk-Snarks & how this technology works within privacy cryptocurrencies such as ZCash, Bitcoin Private & inclusion in Ethereum.

Bulletproofs are an important innovation of zero-knowledge proofs & other protocols used to secure and obfuscate cryptocurrency transactions

The Intel® Gaudi® 3 Al accelerator PCIe card (HL-338) is designed to deliver performance and efficiency in a standard PCIe card form factor. The training and inference accelerator is built on the Intel® Gaudi® 5th generation high-efficiency heterogeneous architecture, now in 5nm process technology with state-of-the-art performance, scalability and power efficiency.

Generics are a low-level tool. They are powerful, but dangerous when they escape into the higher layers

Implementing “Exactly once” data delivery in distributed / streaming systems is no easy endeavor. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a couple of strategies we implemented in Epsio for end-to-end “exactly-once” data delivery that are a-bit differe...

Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some problems. This is the everyday …

Explained as simply as possible… but not simpler.

How redefining fairness made our platform more responsive

An introduction to structured concurrency, a new way to design distributed systems, and Scoop, a POC orchestration library.

Getting excited about the upcoming deployment, and showing off my backend solution.

In this post I’m going to try to outline a workflow, it’s a platform that me and my team have been working on, which serves as an…

Rosie Pattern Language (RPL) and the Rosie Pattern Engine, including librosie, CLI, REPL, and standard pattern library.

A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.

Build stateful HTMX applications using URL parameters as your state store, creating naturally bookmarkable and shareable interfaces

In a country nearly devoid of Internet access, the weekly distributors of El Paquete create a window to online content.

The trade in USB sticks lets Cubans access content without an internet connection Cuba has a very special kind of internet . Few people have an internet connection at home because it's so expensive. Instead a weekly collection of websites and entertainment is physically swapped on USB sticks and portable hard drives. Each week, millions …

Most of you know how an NFC tag works. The reader creates an RF field that has enough energy to power the electronics in the tag; when the tag wakes up, two-way communication ensues. We’re ac…

Idempotence in System Design: Full example

Learn how to build a powerful telemetry pipeline with the OpenTelemetry Collector This comprehensive guide covers everything from basic configuration and processing to advanced deployment patterns for production environments

We’ll start with a confession: Even after years of designing enterprise systems, AI architecture is still a moving target for us. The landscape shifts so fast that what feels cutting edge today might be table stakes tomorrow. But that’s exactly why we wanted to share these thoughts—because we’re all learning as we go. Over the […]

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most important fundamentals, and show you some of the ridiculously-cool things we can do with this massively underrated tool. ✨