System Architecture

It's important to note that a web application is first of all a website. It has everything it takes to be a website. The particularity lies in...

The addition of the ublk driver during the 6.0 merge window would have been easy to miss; it was buried deeply within an io_uring pull request and is entirely devoid of any sort of documentation that might indicate why it merits a closer look. Ublk is intended to facilitate the implementation of high-performance block drivers in user space; to that end, it uses io_uring for its communication with the kernel. This driver is considered experimental for now; if it is successful, it might just be a harbinger of more significant changes to come to the kernel in the future.

While there has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not WebAssembly (Wasm) will eventually replace Docker containers, it appears the two are also complementary.

Since joining Energy Sparks I’ve started investing time in trying to understanding the UK energy system and, in particular, the parts of its data infrastructure and broader ecosystem that we …

The Problem Working in Cloud Native consulting, I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work’. I’m asked this in various forms, and at various leve…

A number of streaming challenges that once seemed formidable can readily be solved just by putting streams at the center of the world.

This demonstrates why stronger antitrust legislation is badly needed.

Building a in-browser Kubernetes experience is a fairly unusual product decision. Here's how and why we did it.

NGINX, at its core, is a collection of modules. It contains several in built modules as well as hundreds of third party modules, contributed by developers from all over the world. With the addition of dynamic module support, modules have given us greater flexibility in adding functionalities to NGINX. In

Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.

A simple HTML attribute that tells the browser which assets to load first, called called Priority Hints, has improved the load time of the largest images on Etsy’s product listing pages by 4%.

Though it is not a mainstream language, Clojure was the right language for Penpot to choose because of its key features: stability, backwards compatibility, and syntactic abstraction.

GitHub isn't just for the pure software nerds. We hybrid software/hardware physical computing geeks, gadgeteers, engineers and inventors have a place there too

Many Linux distributions have really minimal differences between and trying to reach a customer with nice wallpapers, themes and UI decorations in general. Clear Linux is the unique software product backed by Intel, not based on any distribution and provides a lot of interested solutions under and above the hood:

What should our microservice application architectures be like?

If you search for examples of creating a seeded (pseudo)Random number generator, you will run into stuff like this (specific example http://indiegamr.com/generate-repeatable-random-numbers-in-js/):...

The first terminal I ever used was a teletype. Somehow my buddy when we were in high school got a hold of this weird "printer typewriter" ...

Distributed systems are not strictly an engineering problem. It’s far too easy to assume a “backend” development concern, but the reality is there are implications at every point …

Posted on 2022-08-06

Beware of over simplification and mallards

A way to understand software architecture and its failures