System Architecture

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.

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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

Recently, I came across an engineering blog by Dropbox, talking about Robinhood (their in-house built load balancing service). So, I decided to spend my Christmas evening - implementing a PID controller (a mini-version of Robinhood service in python) and observe how well it works in simulations.

Would you like a fast and flexible interaction with your API? To achieve this goal, it is necessary to …

A comprehensive guide to key concepts, terminologies and working of Video Streaming apps

Using a two-phase data load and render pattern to prevent N+1 queries in a generalized way. Especially useful in Go, but applicable in any language.

This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future

One of the reasons for lack of blog post publishing is that my attention has been focused fairly heavily on working within the IETF. Toward the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the US Government published a new initiative - M-21-07, which requires the migration of all federally owned systems to IPv6-only. What does “IPv6-only” mean, you may ask. Well, that’s kinda nebulous. People define it in varying levels of extremism, I’ve chosen to define it as “a device that can operate without the use of IPv4 configured”.

Created by Timm Albers, Strategies for an Auction is a composition and sound installation consisting of six sound objects featuring speakers, displays and microcontrollers. The installation attempts to reenact a real time bidding system normally found in online advertisement platforms, which is resp

David J. Berg*, David Casler^, Romain Cledat*, Qian Huang*, Rui Lin*, Nissan Pow*, Nurcan Sonmez*, Shashank Srikanth*, Chaoying Wang*…

If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.

Understand vector embeddings, tokenization, and vector databases with a clear explanation and practical examples