System Architecture

My last few blog posts have been about how I used TLA+ to gain a better understanding of database transaction consistency models. This post will be in the same spirit, but I’ll be using a dif…

Unlock the fundamentals of system design with our guide to building a load balancer. Learn how load balancing distributes traffic, optimizes resources, and enhances application reliability by providing redundancy and handling high traffic efficiently

The US government’s latest recommendations acknowledge that password composition and reset rules are not just annoying, but counterproductive. The story of why password rules were recommended and enforced without scientific evidence since their invention in 1979 is a story of brilliant people, at the very top of their field, whose well-intentioned recommendations led to decades of ignorance. These mistakes are worth studying, in part, because the people making them were so damn brilliant and the consequences were so long lasting.

The forest offers much but demands much too

Hello, everyone! This should probably be a blog post, but I don’t have a blog, so here we go 😄 My thoughts and frustrations regarding domain modeling in the face of persistence, distilled into a few paragraphs. I’m interested in your opinions. This is probably going to get a bit philosophical, but hopefully also stay practical. I’d like to talk about the age old problem of ORMs. And when it comes to the impedance mismatch problem, Ecto is in the exact same situation as any other ORM in ot...

Comparing the outbox pattern to alternatives like “listen-to-yourself” and 2-phase commit (2PC) transactions. What’s the best choice for data exchange flows between microservices?

WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, client-side. It is a complete virtual machine, with support for persistent data storage, networking and, as of today’s release, Xorg and complete desktop environments. This article will explain the WebVM architecture, how the main components work, and what you can build with this technology.

By: Rajiv Shringi, Oleksii Tkachuk, Kartik Sathyanarayanan

Revisiting the timeless Von Neumann Architecture

An overview of different versioning methods and recommendations for versioning.

Setting up a terabit network overseas and operating it securely – the NFL showed how it's done for the matchup between the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers in Munich.

This AI stuff is cool, but GPU inference is not needed all of the time. Most of the time your instances stay idle, which means you're just burning investor money without any real benefit. Today we'll learn how to make your compute spread between hosts nomadically, hunting deals and using Tigris to make it all possible.

Learn the basics of message queues and how they enhance system design for modern software development.

#60: Break Into Google Spanner Architecture (5 Minutes)

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Before diving into any specific programming language, aspiring developers should master these essential concepts that form the foundation of all software development.

For most of the history of high performance computing, a supercomputer was a freestanding, isolated machine that was designed to run some simulation or

Exploring the web's clipboard APIs, their limitations, and their history.

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?

Insights into performance-related data made accessible.

These terms often get used interchangeably, but each one refers to a distinct attribute of system design.

There is almost no limit to the things we can build if we understand what blockchains are really for, says Ethereum researcher Vlad Zamfir.

Gender is not a binary, and a binary is not a boolean.

Vacation auto-responders got you feeling down? Try something a bit more imaginative and take email system customization to the max! See how the best of old-school sysadmin meets bleeding edge extensibility technology.

While I was probably late to learn the concept of strategy testing, I might have learned about systems modeling too early in my career, stumbling on Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems: A Primer before I began my career in software. Over the years, I’ve discovered a number of ways to miuse systems modeling, but it remains the most effective, flexible tool I’ve found to debugging complex problems. In this chapter, we’ll work through:

USB 2 hubs are, by now, omnipresent. it doesn’t cost much to add to your board, and you truly have tons of options. The standard option is 4-port hubs – one uplink port to your host, fo…

When we think of an m.2 slot in our laptop or similar, it’s usually in the context of its PCI connectivity for high-speed applications such as solid state disks. It’s a connector that o…

I’m liking my new talk about Empirical Software Design.