System Architecture

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Podcasts are far and away the great example of how RSS can empower creators. Today’s thought experiment: How can we bring these benefits to written content?

Last weekend I wanted to get some inspiration to write some TLA+ spec and I got my hands back on the paper Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events...

Mixed-precision arithmetic can give big code speedups. But mixed precision runs risk of wrong answers. Careful analysis and use of tools and libraries can help.

The new WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) standard is a step in the right direction, potentially paving the way for WebAssembly to fulfill its hype and promise.

A common problem in kernel development is controlling when a specific task should be done. Kernel code often executes in contexts where some actions (sleeping, for example, or calling into filesystems) are not possible. Other actions, while possible, may prevent the kernel from taking care of a more important task in a timely manner. The kernel community has developed a number of deferred-execution mechanisms designed to ensure that every task is handled at the right time. One of those mechanisms, tasklets, has been eyed for removal for years; that removal might just happen in the near future.

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Software projects often stop working on architecture after the first phase is done. An architecture vision can prevent that from happening.

The website for LFE, the Erlang community's own Lisp.

htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when compared with react

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WebRTC emerged as a technology for peer-to-peer calls, chats and file sharing for browsers, but is it fully peer-to-peer and private?

Feature flags solutions are pretty established by now, but I feel like there are some key features missing that would make me switch vendors. I mainly have two problems with current solutions: It can

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This specification defines how MiniApps are located, which is called MiniApp Addressing, including the specifications for specific MiniApp URI syntax components based on the URI specification and the process to dereference the MiniApp URI. Implementing this specification enables the user agent to locate MiniApp resources.

This document defines the next-hop-aliases HTTP Proxy-Status Parameter. This parameter carries the list of aliases and canonical names an intermediary received during DNS resolution as part of establishing a connection to the next hop.

This article focuses on implementing data residency strategies for a positive stakeholder experience. It underscores the need to diversify data locations, driven by motivations like disaster recovery and geo-redundancy. The core principle is data distribution, ensuring specific sets reside in distinct regions without overlap - a practice termed data residency.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has anointed CloudEvents as a graduated project, but Microsoft and others are already using the technology in large event-driven architectures.

Learn how to use generative AI to generate, interpret and debug code and accelerate your workflows.

Recently, I’ve thinking about where I want to focus my angel investing in 2024, and decided to document my thinking about value accumulation in artificial intelligence because it explains the shape of my interest–or lack thereof–in investing in artificial intelligence tooling. I’ll describe my understanding of the current state, how I think it’ll evolve over the next 1-3 years, and then end with how that shapes what I’m investing in.

Small electric vehicles, motor controllers, robots, flying things, and other fun electromechanical stuff!

The milestones for expanding the domain crate, our Rust library serving as building blocks to develop DNS tooling.

This document defines DHCPv6 options so that a Homenet Naming Authority (HNA) can automatically set the appropriate configuration and outsource the authoritative naming service for the home network. In most cases, the outsourcing mechanism is transparent for the end user.