System Architecture

I am perpetually working on what I consider to be the essential API dimensions that ground how we talk about APIs. While having a common definition of the API lifecycle, as well as a clear list of roles and stakeholders involved across the API lifecycle is essential–these dimensions or focused on how we “see” and invest specifically in our APIs. In my experience, there are many ways we talk past each other and introduce friction into our discussions about how to do APIs well. While there are other dimensions not reflected here, these reflect on the areas I find myself talking with enterprises about the most, and that I am getting more opinionated on to help ground my conversations.

EIDF has combined Spectra Logic tape with Cerebras wafer-scale AI so archived datasets can be mined for insights.

Even talking about building a monolith today, is a bit taboo. It is all about microservices at the moment, and has been for a few years. But they aren’t a silver bullet…

Whether an API was built from scratch or integrated from a third-party source, securing it requires organized and active end-to-end visibility.

Companies need to consider both how fast they can put edge applications into action and update them, and how quickly they can process incoming data.

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were headed.

Taking time to understand the tradeoffs could mean big savings for the organization and fewer surprises for teams that manage cloud infrastructure.

Why data consistency is a problem of promising semantics alongside dynamics.

Sapling is a source control system developed and used at Meta that places special emphasis on usability and scalability. Git and Mercurial users will find many of the basic concepts familiar, and that workflows like understanding your repository, working with stacks of commits, and recovering from mistakes, are substantially easier.

Lightstep's Austin Parker and Splunk's Morgan McClean share how the CNCF OpenTelemetry project created demo services to help the cloud native community better understand cloud native development practices and more.

In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build!

This is a story of leveraging various tools to empower microservices architecture, how we use it at PerimeterX and when to use and not use

What is Confidential Computing? Confidential Computing encrypts sensitive data while in use in a public cloud. It is today’s gold standard for cloud security and a foundational “must-have” to continue the digital transformation journey with workloads that would...

Enarx: Confidential Computing with WebAssembly

Confidential Computing is a leading-edge security technology that encrypts sensitive data in use in a public cloud, private cloud or on-premises. It completes the data security triangle since data at rest (in storage) and in transit (across networks)...

Here’s a synopsis of what could go wrong in complex application environments and how you can contain your risk using tools and best practices.

By: Peter Cioni (Netflix), Alex Schworer (Netflix), Mac Moore (Conductor Tech.), Rachel Kelley (AWS), Ranjit Raju (AWS)

Diving deeper into improving the accessibility of HTML anchors

In the first of a two-part series, we'll explore how parser combinators work in Elixir.

In the second part of our two-part series, we'll improve the parser combinator we've written.

How a video service, for example, can architect high-performance persistence to get users happily watching their next movie.

How OpenTelemetry bridges the gap between our code and the observability backend options

With more than 25 photos and 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits…

Most use cases of ActivityPub would be better off as Atom or RSS feeds.