System Architecture

WebSub provides a common mechanism for communication between publishers of any kind of Web content and their subscribers, based on HTTP web hooks. Subscription requests are relayed through hubs, which validate and verify the request. Hubs then distribute new and updated content to subscribers when it becomes available. WebSub was previously known as PubSubHubbub.

A look at the future of microservices with WASM and Fermyon.

Web 3.0 will be about semantic web, personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things.

The social network's big announcement at its F8 developer conference is what CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls the "Open Graph."

Tim Berners-Lee, in his blog recently made a very insightful observation about the next phase of conceptual layout of the web and its conne...

Data is everywhere around us, and most of it is simply noise. The purpose of information is to inform, to help us change our minds. Information has a point of view, it’s useful. It turns data…

In this post, we share the top supply chain security best practices every organization should follow for optimal results.

This adventure starts with git-lfs. It was a normal day and I added a 500 MB binary asset to my server templates. When I went to push it, I found it interesting that git-lfs was uploading at 50KB p…

In this article, we will begin our acquaintance with graphs, get acquainted with the breadth-first search algorithm (BFS) and implement the graph in the Rust programming language.

Auth tokens for a distributed, user-controlled world

The Web Crypto API is an interface allowing a script to use cryptographic primitives in order to build systems using cryptography.

I cover my takeaways from “Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems” by Bronson et al: 1 thing that causes them, and 3 things you can do.

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Build the future of web apps at the edge: auth, data, and publishing for front end devs

Ideas are everywhere and they shape our reality. They are real, living, breathing, things that are solid tangible; they have a whole life cycle just like us. Some of them are straightforward, ordinary, practical and a little boring, some are eureka moments, some are roller coaster rides. All of...

Front end development tool provider Vercel has released a middleware library, called new Edge Functions, that provides automatic global deployment of functions on Amazon Web Services.

Did you know Wasm and Docker can work together? Learn more about creating WebAssembly apps with Docker in this exciting demo breakdown.

How to create proper insights into a distributed job queue using streaming analytics.

The way the market has evolved over the past several years means that multicloud security often requires a different approach from hybrid cloud security.