System Architecture

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Nobody is “taught” how to use Facebook.

Learning to fly with digital wings

Welcome to a world of ordered thinking...

Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler

Interactive environement for the Ludus experimental programming language

Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and *nix.

The Ludus programming language.

Compare Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake and Apache Hudi and learn how to choose the right open table format for your data lakehouse.

Wvlet is a new cross-SQL flow-style query language

We are excited to announce the release of Wvlet version 2024.9, an open-source flow-style query language designed to help users to write efficient queries for SQL engines. You can try Wvlet, pronounced as weave-let, directly in your web browser at Wvlet Playground. The source code of Wvlet compiler is available at GitHub wvlet/wvlet.

If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...

Official Copy: Final report of Doug Engelbart's in-depth study on augmenting human intellect and human effectiveness: a unifying framework for what makes us collectively capable and effective, a design strategy for systematically improving this capability, and proposed research agenda. Early research results include these pioneering firsts https://engelbart.org/Firsts. Serving as his guiding vision throughout his career, this report outlines a call to action still relevant today.

Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …

A Linux kernel module that implements the Homa transport protocol. - PlatformLab/HomaModule

One of my readers asked for my opinion about the provocative “It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter” article by prof. John Ousterhout. I started reading it, found too many things that didn’t make sense, and decided to ignore it as another attempt of a proverbial physicist solving hard problems in someone else’s field. However, pointers to that article kept popping up, and I eventually realized it was a position paper in a long-term process that included conference talks, interviews and keynote speeches, so I decided to take another look at the technical details.

Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming

Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?

I have been tinkering the last several months with a videogame prototype inspired by some of the tabletop roleplaying games that my boys and...

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

Most developers know about WebSockets, but Server-Sent Events (SSE) offer a simpler, often overlooked alternative that deserves more attention