System Architecture

HTTP is a stateless protocol, meaning each request is independent of any other request. This is different from a stateful protocol, where ...

Connect Hasura to existing/new PostgreSQL DBs for instant, realtime GraphQL APIs. Leverage Postgres native types, functions & optimize for performance.

GraphQL is used in many different ways. In this post, I'd like to show why GraphQL is not ideal as a configuration language.

I wrote this blog to showcase a GraphQL RDF bridge using a Star Wars dataset that I found. It explains what I did in TerminusDB

A query language for your API — GraphQL provides a complete description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

Let's move on to discuss another topic that isn't necessarily new, but is recently making a stir in the programming world.

Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with "Web 3.0," his own proposal for reshaping the internet.

FFmpeg.guide is a GUI for creating FFmpeg filters and complex commands

Many developers learn development through mistakes and disaster

Browser-based research platform designed for clarity, comprehensiveness, and collaboration. Create interactive citation graphs of your own research topics.

AWS' Madelyn Olson describes how Redis can be used in a broader cloud native ecosystem.

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung

User permissions are a crucial clog in the SaaS machine. Learn more about what they really are and how to implement them effectively in your app today.

This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, emLearning Digital Identity/em, which will be available January 2023.

Move fast but don’t break things.

How ETL, ELT and Reverse-ETL tools get in the way of building better data products.

A Trino connector enables SQL access to real-time data and allows data architects and developers to expand fast analytics data accessible from it.

When you’re solving a big problem, the picture of that it might take a rather common form. Congratulations, you can build a graph database.

The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by

In the Cloud Native Wasm day event at KubeCon NA 2022, Docker announced Docker+Wasm technical preview in partnership with CNCF’s Wasm runtime WasmEdge. With a single command, docker compose up, Docker developers can instantly build, share, and run a complete Wasm application.

This post contains some inconclusive musing on lightweight markup languages (Markdown, AsciiDoc, LaTeX, reStructuredText, etc).The overall mood is that I don...

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, if you are not one of the hyperscalers or one of the biggest cloud builders, then you are a second class citizen,

Observability has been tackling the complex problem of managing a huge volume of data. Still, we also need to remain laser-focused on making data actionable.

Gathering data to explore a problem with power outages creating connectivity issues and ultimately draining a laptop battery.