System Architecture

Hackaday recently published an article titled “Why x86 Needs to Die” – the latest addition in a long-running RISC vs CISC debate. Rather than x86 needing to die, I believe the RISC vs C…

How Uber improved load balancing with real-time dynamic subsetting for millions of containers.

Subsetting is a common technique used in load balancing for large-scale distributed systems. In this blog post, we will briefly introduce current Uber’s service mesh architecture that has been powering thousands of critical microservices in Uber since 2016. We will then discuss the challenges we faced when trying to scale the number of tasks in the mesh and issues with our initial subsetting approach. We’ll finish with how we came up with the real-time dynamic subsetting solution and its results in production.

Discover how DoorDash implemented a multi-tenancy awareness system for both Kafka producers and consumers.

A human-friendly metalanguage for describing data formats in documentation using the familiar patterns of Backus-Naur Form

Challenge forth trendy and inspiring products that seed a feeling of “niubility”!

#41: Break Into Amazon Dynamo White Paper (8 minutes)

In this blog, we’ll explore the benefits of integrating SWG into a secure SD-WAN for a unified, efficient, and comprehensive approach to network security.

One of the super powers of APIs.json is the ability to evolve the human-readable aspects of API operations into machine-readable ones–as this is how we are going to scale to deliver the API economy all of us API believers envision in our minds eye. I saw what Swagger (now OpenAPI) had done for API documentation back in 2013, and I wanted this for the other essential building blocks of our API operations. A decade later I am still translating our getting started, plans, SDKs, road map, change log, and support into machine-readable artifacts as part of our API Commons work, but I am still working to translate documentation into machine-readable artifacts as well.

I am pretty happy with manually searching Google and Bing for APIs across different spaces. The more APIs I add to my APIs.json index of APIs, the more words that appear as tags. So I regularly scroll through the list clicking on different keywords to see what comes up in the top 10 search results. I will be manually doing this on a regular basis, but I am looking to see what I can automate as well, so I wanted to see what the first couple of steps I could take to automate this recurring activity.

Some time over a decade ago, the arrival of inexpensive PCB fabrication revolutionised the creation of custom electronics on a budget. It’s now normal for even the smallest projects we featur…

Using cloud resources more conservatively not only saves money but also resources. Check out this episode of The New Stack Makers for more.

Complexity stems from the way a system is subdivided into modules.

As I’m sure many of you know, x86 architecture has been around for quite some time. It has its roots in Intel’s early 8086 processor, the first in the family. Indeed, even the original …

CXL technology has been pushed into the backseat by the Nvidia GTC AI circus, yet Nvidia’s GPUs are costly and limited in supply.

In this article I will discuss what binary serialization is and the difference between that and a more typical JSON or XML serialization.

Leverage Diagrams as Code tools like PlantUML for creating clear, visual representations of complex systems and workflows in cloud…

Address people's biggest concern about formal methods

Explore the pivotal roles of WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, Long-Polling, WebRTC, and WebTransport in shaping real-time web apps. Dive into their unique advantages, limitations, and optimal use cases for informed development choices.

There was considerable attention around Passkeys last year. It was sometimes presented as the password killer technology. This came from the announcements of Apple and Google to support this techno…

Easily identify Hyperledger distributed ledger technologies, understand their differences, and how you want to use them.

A blockchain framework implementation intended as a foundation for developing applications or solutions with a modular architecture.