System Architecture

How building software with AI agents is reshaping engineering, moving from deterministic coding to probabilistic, agent-driven development.

or: Writing a Translation Command Line Tool in Swift.

A guide to tools and resources for joining the independent web movement. Discover blogging platforms like Pika, search engines that prioritize small sites, directories for finding like-minded creators, and more.

Secure container distribution for commercial software. License-aware auth, customer-specific credentials, and a hardened path from docker pull to paid delivery.

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

the P2P file sharing Network

economic and technological framework which foresees the playback of prerecorded music as a service

Book &quotGeneral-Purpose Visual Programming Pipe"

I’m thinking out loud here about how to get development rolling for MyTerms. Right now I see three pieces required for a proof of concept: Browser plugin Web (content management system, or CM…

How borrowing distributed systems patterns from Erlang creates maintainable, efficient terminal applications with independently managed regions.

My former colleagues and I wrote a detailed paper^dbms to better understand io_uring. This post is a concise, high-level overview aimed at systems engineers: It should help you...

A look at the ever-present drive to make software delivery faster and how it might break down various activity loops in organizations.

Embrace your API legacy, integrate your AI future. Naftiko turns API sprawl into a governed capability fabric that teams can depend on.

Pyodide compiles CPython to WebAssembly, letting developers run full Python directly in the browser without servers or installations.

Zero Trust is a security framework requiring all users to be authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated before being granted access.

A deep dive into building an ngrok-like tunneling system using Elixir/Phoenix on the server and Rust for the CLI. We explore the challenges of multiplexing HTTP requests over a single WebSocket connection, the elegance of Phoenix Channels, and how the BEAM's real-time capabilities make this architecture surprisingly simple.

Fred Brooks's classic book The Mythical Man-Month was published 50 years ago. It was hugely influential on the then-nascent discipline of software development. How does it stand up today?

Salvatore Zappalà's Weblog

Yesterday, the Bazel team at Google did not have a very Merry Boxing Day. An SSL certificate expired for and as shown in this screenshot from the github issue. This expired certificate apparently b…

CVE-2025-14847 allows attackers to read any arbitrary data from the database's heap memory. It affects all MongoDB versions since 2017, here's a simple explanation: