System Architecture

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

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.