System Architecture

When LWN looked at the composefs filesystem in December, we reported that there had been "little response" to the patches. That is no longer the case. Whether composefs (or something like it) should be merged has become the subject of an extended debate; at its core, the discussion is over just how Linux should support certain types of container workloads.

If an API behaves differently at different scales, it can cause problems for the developers who are using it and can make apps perform less reliably. Here's how to design APIs consistently. #APImanagement #scaling #developers

Do AI hallucinations foreshadow artificial creativity?

Solving the problem of meta-permissions requires a multifaceted approach that considers both technical and cultural challenges.

These are a few of my favorite things from 2018. Abandoned tech is a treasure trove of ideas, both good and bad, and always makes you wonder how the world would be different if a given technology battle had gone another away. Take, for example, this little phone: the Palm Pre3 (by HP.) Although HP…

We've all kind of accepted our fate when it comes to smart phones. Apple and Google make the OS, control the app ecosystem, and we get to choose from a virtually identical selection of slabs as our hardware, made by one of three vendors, all competing to make bigger phones every year, without adding any new features except evolutionary improvements in the cameras. Its not just boring, its stupid.

The Zephyr® Project strives to deliver the best-in-class RTOS for connected resource-constrained devices, built to be secure and safe.

Google's finest via the what now? Plus: RISC-V-powered Chromebook isn't out of the question

Learn more about the role of AI in debugging in the future

Designing and Implementing Behaviors for AI Agents

This weekend, the pirate e-book site welcomed users back with unique domains.

Log and visually explore computer vision and robotics data over time. Debug and understand the internal state and data of your systems with minimal code.

A rule-based data query language that thinks differently

As a web developer, you’ve probably noticed that certain APIs only work if an end-user clicks or taps on an HTML element.

Contribute to axboe/liburing development by creating an account on GitHub.

Evadne Wu (whom many of you know from her talks at ElixirConf and PC builds on Twitter), released shun to the world in April 2022. Judging by the number of stars on the repository and the download stats on Hex, shun has gone mostly unnoticed by the Elixir community. Shun is the library that you didn't know you needed. So what is it?

Jerakia is an open source, pluggable and highly flexible key/value hierarchical data lookup tool

Infrastructure automation keeps engineers from focusing too much on managing DevOps when they should be building out new features.

DevOps is more important than ever, even if the role has changed in the era of cloud-native development supported by centralized platforms.

In 2008, Paul Vixie and Dan Kaminsky created a tool that fixes a serious DNS vulnerability, and it is still not used everywhere.

The kernel initialization sequence is complex. Let’s examine the boot process.

Time-varying entities may contain multiple time-varying and static attributes, making mapping them a particular challenge.

A few simple additions to make links to your site look better on Mastodon.