System Architecture

A visual, interactive guide to what bloom filters are, when you would use them, and how they work.

Scale is a challenge that every developer encounters at some point - how did Reddit approach this challenge, and what can we learn from it?

Microsoft is transforming retrieval-augmented generation with GraphRAG, using LLM-generated knowledge graphs to significantly improve Q&A when analyzing complex information and consistently outperforming baseline RAG. Get the details.

Both software development architectures have pros and cons. Here’s how to decide whether a composable or microservices architecture will work best for you.

Traditional security focuses on securing data at rest or in transit, while confidential computing ensures end-to-end protection, even during computation.

Home page for the Legion parallel programming system

The creator of Astro has raised questions about whether a new Web Core Vital will hurt sites using two popular JavaScript frameworks.

This post introduces the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric and explains how it works, how to measure it, and offers suggestions on how to improve it.

As I was profiling the OpenAI API I noticed they had vendor extensions. This is a common thing I come across while profiling APIs, so I always make sure I spend some time evaluating the approach so that I can better understand why API producers feel the need to extend the spec. Twilio and Stripe both utilize extensions that help track maturity, PII, and other details of API operations that aren’t commonly expressed as OpenAPI. I harvested the OAS extensions from the OpenAI OpenAPI (I love using those two words together), and set them aside for documents here in my API Evangelist notebook.

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Learn to use Python f-strings from this tutorial.

Nylas issued its API version 3 on Feb. 6 with a revamped approach that builds in intelligence features and a better developer experience.

Open Payments is an open API standard for implementation by account servicing entities.

Web Monetization allows websites to automatically receive payments from users, facilitated by the user agent and a user's preferred monetization provider.

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On this episode of The Vergecast, we figure out passkeys once and for all.

A simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, preserving the "happened-before" relation in almost all cases.

More developers will have to fix security issues in the age of shifting left. Here, we break down how SAST tools can help them find and address vulnerabilities.

How to count google.com hits? What about how to store “likes” of popular users? In this article we will consider solutions for these tasks…

You may have heard about CRDTs in the past few years if you are into distributed systems. In this post I will give a brief summary of what…

A comprehensive guide to instrument Golang applications using OpenTelemetry libraries for metrics and traces