System Architecture

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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.

Open Source Graph Database Built For Real-Time Streaming Data, Compatible With Neo4j

Cypher QL: Learn how to write well structured and easily understandable Cypher queries

Message-based Interservice Communication made easy! Naturally resilient and highly available services, with great DevX and OpsX

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Learn what API specification fits your needs. This article will help you decide what API specification and architecture to use to meet your business needs.

Over the past years, I’ve worked in multiple teams adopting very different strategies when it comes to feature flags. I’ve seen the pros and cons of both, and over time, I found myself disagreeing …

Better privacy without special software

A crash course in using protocols — and understanding how they are different from APIs — using ActivityPub as an example.

The Diátaxis framework solves the problem of structure in technical documentation, making it easier to create, maintain and use.

By 2026, 70% of organizations that successfully applied observability will achieve shorter latency for decision making, enabling competitive advantage for target business or IT processes, according to analysts.

You can use Kubernetes namespaces to set resource requests and limits to ensure that your clusters have the correct resources for optimal performance.

Complex technologies like Kubernetes are likely to create cognitive overload for your developers. Platform engineering might be part of the solution.

A look at how this post-link optimizer developed to speed up large applications can be a simpler way to achieve better code layout.

Get to know the Loki-Proxy, powered by groundcover and see discover how it can integrate with additional OSS tools to help make your edge computing implementation seamless.

Much of the recent discussion regarding the Ktap dynamic tracing system was focused on the addition of a Lua interpreter and virtual machine to the kernel. Virtual machines seem like an inappropriate component to be running in kernel space. But, in truth, the kernel already contains more than one virtual machine. One of those, the BPF interpreter, has been growing in features and performance; it now looks to be taking on roles beyond its original purpose. In the process, it may result in a net reduction in interpreter code in the kernel.

As of late, concerns about the future of Twitter have caused many of its users to seek alternatives. Amid this upheaval, an open-source microblogging service called Mastodon has received a great deal of attention. Mastodon is not reliant on any single company or central authority to run its servers; anyone can run their own. Servers communicate with each other, allowing people on different servers to send each other messages and follow each other's posts. Mastodon doesn't just talk to itself, though; it can exchange messages with anything that speaks the ActivityPub protocol. There are many such implementations, so someone who wants to deploy their own microblogging service enjoys a variety of choices.

ActivityPub-enabled microblogs are gaining popularity as a replacement for Twitter, but ActivityPub is for more than just microblogging. Many other popular services also have open-source alternatives that speak ActivityPub. Proprietary services operated by commercial interests usually deliberately limit interoperability, but users of any ActivityPub-enabled service should be able to communicate with each other, even if they are using different services. This promise of interoperability is often limited in practice, though; while ActivityPub specifies how multiple types of content can be published, the kinds of content that can be displayed or interacted with vary from project to project.

Capital One — the first bank to be fully in the public cloud — achieves a higher level of resiliency through chaos engineering in production.

A design with a good separation of concerns will perform well. Keep the application security code simple and ensure that security behavior is easy to extend.

We as an industry must achieve hardware independence if we’re to fulfill the promise of AI. It will enable faster innovation, unlock hybrid options for model deployment and ultimately save practitioners time and energy.