System Architecture

Cell-based architecture has emerged as a response to many challenges associated with distributed systems. It employs the bulkhead pattern to isolate failures to a fraction of the affected infrastructure footprint and prevent widespread impact. Cells can also help organize large architectures into domain-bound deployment and delivery units, which provides essential sociotechnical benefits.

How-to's for various Other Networks re-creations and experiments

by Tania Jogesh and Amanda Ford

Claude Shannon's famous paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication [1] includes an example saying that the channel capacity of a telegraph is log2 W where W is the largest real root of the determinant equation Where in the world did that come from? I'll sketch where the equation above came from, but first let's find

In this article, we’ll explore how autonomous agents can simplify and automate API documentation, making it smarter and more efficient.

The HTTP 431 Request Header Fields Too Large client-side error indicates the server refuses to process a request because its header fields are too large

Unit tests are always in sync with the code, making them a poweful tool for up-to-date documentation.

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The member list update feature in Discord servers became quite a bottleneck in terms of memory & CPU usage because the system had to update the entire member list in every Discord server every time someone joined or left the server, changed their status (online,...

An American tech fair in Moscow during the Cold War featured a robot vacuum secretly operated by remote control.

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Enterprise programming is the management of system complexity. The main goals of most enterprise projects are to minimize bugs, ensure scalability, and release as soon as possible. These goals are unreachable in projects where people rely on individual skills rather than on a system-based approach.

Much of a car’s interaction with the world around it is still a very stand-alone, analog experience, regardless of whether said car has a human driver or a self-driving computer system. Mark …

Half-life is the time required for a quantity to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable atoms survive. The term is also used more generally to characterize any type of exponential decay. For example, the medical sciences refer to the biological half-life of drugs and other chemicals in the human body. The converse of half-life is doubling time.

Navigating the landscape of queues, streams, job, and workflow systems can be overwhelming. Often, it’s difficult to understand how certain…

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Despite big noises and lots of talk, most vendors aren't seeing a big pivot to IaaS. What is going wrong with the business model?

Researchers have devised an "absurdly fast" algorithm to solve the problem of finding the fastest flow through a network.

Flow Computing has developed a new computing architecture that combines parallel processing units with CPUs. By reducing the overhead of parallelization, the company claims it can effectively make a CPU 100 times faster.

Discover the possible tradeoffs when building fine-grained authorization (FGA). Learn from a real-world use case how to examine such tradeoffs and build better software.

Learn how and why Pondhouse Data built a content recommendation system using pgai and pgvectorscale, and how to access these AI tools for your use case.

pump.io is a software package containing a social networking service and communication protocol that can be used as a federated social network. Started by Evan Prodromou, it is a follow-up to his previous microblogging software StatusNet and its OStatus protocol. It is designed to be more lightweight and usable for general activity streams instead of the predecessor's focus on microblogging timelines, with its goal being to achieve "most of what people want from a social network".

Pleroma is a free and open-source microblogging social networking service. Unlike popular microblogging services such as Twitter or Weibo, Pleroma can be self-hosted and operated by anyone with a server and a web domain, a combination commonly referred to as an instance. Instance administrators can manage their own code of conduct, terms of service, and content moderation policies, allowing users to have more control over the content they view as well as their experience. It was named after the religious concept of pleroma, or the totality of divine powers.