System Architecture

Last year, I announced that Canonical had begun supporting the development of upki, a project that will bring browser-grade Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to Linux. Since then, development has been moving at pace thanks to the tireless work of Dirkjan and Joe. In this post, I’ll explore the progress we’ve made, how you can try an early version, and where we’re going next. Architecture & Progress As a reminder, upki’s primary goal is to provide a reliable, privacy-preserving, and efficient cer...

Why your company probably chose the wrong coordination model

Delving deeper, after selecting technology from the myriad available, you’ll inevitably confront the need to manage intermediate levels. This is particularly true when handling unstructured data, which necessitates transformation into a structured format. Orchestrators and cloud-computing frameworks play a crucial role in this process, ensuring efficient data manipulation across different systems and formats. In the following chapters, I’ll elucidate their role in completing the full architectural picture.

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

StrongDM's field notes on non-interactive agentic development: specs + scenarios, validation harnesses, feedback loops, and the supporting components.

Inside the StrongDM Software Factory: a new approach to building software with AI using agent-driven execution, scenario-based validation, and digital twin systems—where validation replaces code review.

Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

StrongDM's radical approach to AI coding: no human-written code, no human review — code treated as opaque weights validated purely by behavior.

Most teams plateau at "AI writes code, a human reviews it." This article presents the Dark Factory Pattern — a four-phase architecture using holdout scenarios a

StrongDM implements "Dark Factory" development where agents deploy code without human review, Horizon-LM enables training 120B models on a single GPU, and go-busybox provides WASM-based sandboxed utilities for agents.

Can software be delivered without anyone writing or reading the code?

OpenClaw — The AI that actually does things. Your personal assistant on any platform.

Fintech security explained: common structural risks, breach patterns, and practical Zero Trust controls to reduce blast radius across financial systems.

Git is ubiquitous; in the last two decades, the version-control system has truly achieved world [...]

Comparing namespace models across npm, Maven, Go, Swift, and crates.io.

A breakdown of Anthropic CEO’s “Powerful AI” essay — and how engineers can prepare in a post-AI world

A deep dive into how CDNs work, including a from-scratch implementation of a geo DNS-based CDN with edge caching

webpack is a module bundler. Its main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.

Beyond protocols: How to rearchitect your business for an AI-first world

This post first appeared on Nick Tune’s Medium page and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Example architecture flow reverse-engineered

From models to systems

An in-depth look at multi-modal perception systems, explaining how vision, language, and sensor fusion enable real-time understanding in modern robots.

While some consider prompting is a manual hack, context Engineering is a scalable discipline. Learn how to build AI systems that manage their own information flow using MCP and context caching.

When millions click at once, auto-scaling won’t save you — smart systems survive with load shedding, isolation and lots of brutal game-day drills.

DIDs that target a distributed ledger face significant practical challenges in bootstrapping enough meaningful trusted data around identities to incentivize mass adoption. We propose a new DID method using a web domain's existing reputation.

We migrated a GPS tracker from Elixir to AnyCable and sped up the infrastructure based on AWS ECS, Fargate, and CloudFormation for Sera.

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