System Architecture

System Design Refresher

Learn how to use rich types, phantom types, and partial application to eliminate impossible states and implement Clean Architecture's dependency inversion in a functional way. Discover why the compiler is your best friend for building robust domain models.

If you’re working on a modern JavaScript application and use a build tool like Vite to build and deploy your code, you can open the dist folder and find out […]

The FFmpeg School of Assembly Language provides a first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. The lessons give a grounding in the way assembly language is…

#83: Break Into HTTP Headers (15 Minutes)

Discover how power of two load balancing reduces hotspots, achieves O(log log n) max load, and connects to cuckoo hashing for efficiency.

We know more than we can tell. That was how Michael Polanyi distinguished between tacit and explicit knowing. We may know tacitly how we form speech, ride a bike, or sense when to shake hands with …

An excellent detailed second blog on the subject of VirtIO, this time focusing on Vhost.

More than two years into the AI hype, here’s a grounded overview of this period from the perspective of a regular software developer.

A reflection on why starting with abstractions—even simple ones—pays off in real-world development.

A Comprehensive Guide to the Safer, Scalable Alternative to Model Context Protocol

Learn how to make unreliable AI APIs reliable using proven distributed systems patterns. Real example: reduced LLM costs from $20 to $0 with transactional outbox.

Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure have revolutionized how we deploy and manage applications and services, but with traditional data…

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