System Architecture

In this week’s edition of my newsletter, CrazyStupidTech, I posted a reported essay on the future of browsers in the age of AI, with reflections on their past, and their role in our multi-dev…

At AWS re:Invent, CTO Werner Vogels shared some fundamental lessons Amazon learned about system design.

With Markwhen, a developer or service designer can peer into the complexities of dealing with time representations.

Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s invention by the Russian [Oleg L…

There is a fractal nature in modern computing that is only becoming more and more apparent as workloads have long since outstripped the capacity of a

A startup called Deta built a browser with a chatbot that can help you browse, organize, and understand the entire internet. It’s very cool.

It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. No one knows these facts better

Sandbox environments enable more realistic integration testing vs. mocks by allowing branch versions to interact with trunk/main versions of services.

The Graph.Build Studio enables non-developers to work on graph database creation, including knowledge graphs, in a way that fits with set team standards.

They're super powerful.

Learn how to use syntax on DuckDuckGo Private Search to get the search results you want.

Search thousands of sites directly from DuckDuckGo.

Unpacking Different Latencies for Informed Engineering

Explore the Document Object Model (DOM) in JavaScript with this comprehensive guide. Learn its structure, methods, and practical examples to build dynamic and,,

Linked lists offer better time complexity for certain operations, but can lead to lower performance in practice due to a lack of spatial locality and predictability.

Understanding Event-driven Non-blocking Architecture of Nginx

I’m in the middle of a rather large project, attempting to consolidate a thread running through roughly a dozen essays I’ve written over the past decade or so. I keep running into borke…

With e-commerce at the forefront nowadays, the need for innovative payment solutions is higher than ever. One such challenge is a dispersed…

The Frugal Architect returns with expanded content, featuring stories from AWS customers optimizing their architectures for cost and sustainability.

Master the internals of Apache ZooKeeper through comprehensive source code analysis. Learn about distributed coordination, consensus algorithms, and real-world implementation patterns.

Build iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript