System Architecture

How Virtual Machines are used to deploy services. What old problems containers solve and what new problems introduce. How Kubernetes used containers to recreate Virtual Machines?

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2022, with a focus on what architects are designing for today.

Using GitHub Actions to add labels conditionally to a PR based on which files and directories changed

Fred Brooks observed in Mythical Man Month that adding more programmers to a project often slowed it down. The effect works in reverse, as Paul Graham noted in a 2001 essay, The Other Road Ahead: as groups get smaller, software development gets exponentially more efficient Graham was observing the early

The history of modularization in JavaScript is a tedious one. ES Modules ("import") were introduced in 2015 and now seem to have broad support across different environments. But the precursor to ES Modules, CommonJS ("require"), is still widespread enough to require backward compatibility. And neither module system has an opinionated

This recording is part of the Packet Coders member Tech Sessions. Within this tech session we cover: What is Capirca? Overview of demo flows, and topology. Installation Components Integrations (SoT and Nornir) Demos ACL generation with CLI ACL generation with Python library Capirca integration with Nornir Challenge You can find

The best-known Google operating system is Chrome OS, but inside Google itself, the company also uses its own Linux desktop distro — gLinux.

I was curious how package names were chosen in various language ecosystems.

P2P file system makes it more difficult to detect and take down malicious content

We discuss when you should async, threading and multiprocessing in Python and then we go through pitfalls in each multitasking option.

I thought Web Components were a failed attempt by the industry to develop a new technology that had failed years ago

Posts in this series: A Case StudyDesigning Authentication SchemesIn our last post, I walked through my real-world scenario of needing to follow Zero Trust principles in securing microservice-based APIs inside (and outside) Azure. For our sample system, I'll simplify it a bit so that we have three applications: Server hosted

Commercial, non-commercial, use them as you please. EOS icons comes with an MIT license, has an open source community, and welcomes your collaboration too.

In this article, we will look at different communication patterns we can implement in our distributed...

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There are any proprietary authentication methods and many variations of a few major approaches. Let's review the 4 most popular ones used by REST APIs

Beautiful UI components and templates by the creators of Tailwind CSS.

With Feedly’s new Neobanks AI model, you can effortlessly keep up with the growth and strategies of the world’s top 350 neobanks

Why the “log everything and make sense later” approach to observability is broken.

Technology companies were right to care so much about vendor lock-in in the last two decades. In the past, developers were burned by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle services, often with few alternatives and price gouging. But to align your strategy so vehemently against the same type of lock-in in the

The relatively new io_uring subsystem has changed the way asynchronous I/O is done on Linux systems and improved performance significantly. It has also, however, begun to run up a record of disagreements with the kernel's security community. A recent discussion about security hooks for the new uring_cmd mechanism shows how easily requirements can be overlooked in a complex system with no overall supervision.

What does incident management during the war in Ukraine teach us about contingency planning, engineering leadership and DevOps in crisis?