System Architecture

IPFS Gateway acts as a bridge between traditional HTTP clients and IPFS. Through the gateway, users can download files, directories and other IPLD data stored in IPFS as if they were stored in a traditional web server.

Learn why gateways are an important part of using IPFS in conjunction with the legacy web.

Learn about compute-over-data with content-addressed data on IPFS

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Jackson Annotations with Examples. n this article we will explore few important annotations like JsonProperty, JsonFormat, JsonIgnore, JsonIgnoreProperties, JsonPropertyOrder, JsonRawValue, JsonCreator, JsonRootName, JsonValue, JsonAnyGetter, JsonSetter, JsonGetter.

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A deeper dive into the new Haidra project, written by Haidra's lead developer.

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Hubble Network recently announced that it has achieved something many believed to be impossible: it established a Bluetooth connection directly to space, making it the first company...

The more you practice creating diagrams, the better you'll become at distilling complex systems into visual representations that everyone can understand.

Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System. An annotated copy of the original paper submitted to USENIX 2019.

Deep-dive into Zanzibar: Google's Global Authorization System. Understand its purpose, the developer's view, and its implementation.

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The skyrocketing SaaS industry demands dynamic and adaptable architectures to handle the influx of real-time data. Here’s how to build them.

By Francesco Bertolaccini You’ve reached computer programming nirvana. Your journey has led you down many paths, including believing that God wrote the universe in LISP, but now the truth is …

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A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time is all about the Sun and our local relationship with it. The Moon a…

You might be under the impression that machine learning costs thousands of dollars to work with. That might be true in many cases, but there’s more to machine learning than you might think. F…

Neon reimagines Postgres storage by putting the WAL front and center, prioritizing the development workflow over mere data storage.

A few years ago, it was hard to imagine how AMD would have survived without re-entering the datacenter with its CPU and GPU compute engines. And now, it

Arista Networks is bolstering a key part of its security software with new features that help customers reduce the blast radius of security breaches by setting up 'microperimeters' to restrict lateral movement in campus and data center networks.

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Commissioned: Thanks to recent technological advancements, there are many different sources of electricity available which can help organizations address

Last week, I sent you an article about the cardinality conundrum in observability. That brought up a few questions. The one I didn't expect was, "What is observability, really?" So let's find out...

Often, software architecture is inadequate for the problem it solves. More often than not, this leads to serious problems during the life of the application.