System Architecture

Message queueing and event streaming are key components of event-driven architecture. But how do they compare and when should you use each of them?

Introduction In the past decade, many organizations have been using BLOB storage (e.g., AWS S3) as a primary storage platform. These organizations collect tons of data and ingest it as files into S3 for its scalability, cost efficiency, and reliability. However, there has since been a need to interact with such data using SQL, which […]

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Analyzing the network effects of open source communities and what it means at an individual level

Someone needs to think of the children ... and the consequences of breaking encryption and trashing privacy

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

Event-Driven by Oskar Dudycz

Media over QUIC is a new live media protocol in development by the IETF.

Linux graphics developers often speak of modern Linux graphics when they refer to a number of individual software components and how they interact with each other. Among other things, it's a mix of kernel-managed display resources, Wayland for compositing, accelerated 3D rendering, and decidedly not X11. In a two-part series, we will take a fast-paced journey through the graphics code to see how it converts application data to pixel data and displays it on the screen. In this installment, we look at application rendering, Mesa internals, and the necessary kernel features.

Last time, I discussed the trade-offs between more traditional CRDTs, such as the State-based CRDT, Op-based CRDT, and Delta-based CRDT. There are another class of CRDTs: Merkle CRDTs. Most ink spilt on CRDTs focuses on consistently merging data from different replicas. That's just half the story. Without a way of

In 2023, Intel and AMD realized their traditional business model of selling CPUs was not as relevant to a new AI-led computing landscape.

It is hard to keep a model of datacenter infrastructure spending in your head at the same time you want to look at trends in cloud and on-premises spending as well as keep score among the key IT suppliers to figure out who is winning and who is losing. And so we have built a

Robustness isn’t something you can bolt on; it must be baked into your edge architecture from the start.

Ever heard of zero-knowledge? It’s a really big thing in the world of technology, especially blockchain technology. And yes, we see the paradox, but let's explain.

Modern applications run typically in the cloud. As good residents, distributed applications must fulfill many requirements in order to enable reliable operations and maintenance. This article summarizes the most important points in order to go live and to keep applications healthy over their lifetime. Twelve-factor app All modern cloud applications should comply with the 12-factor app principles: Codebase is tracked in a version control system, the same code will be deployed in different environments Dependencies are shipped with the deployable artifact Backing Services can be detached and re-attached without code changes (e.

Lambda architecture is a data processing architecture designed to handle large amounts of data by combining batch processing with real-time stream processing.Lambda architecture provides a way to handle both real-time and batch processing in a single architecture.

New 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and Core Ultra mobile processor family are aimed at bringing AI to all compute devices.

Search is undergoing a transformative shift in which hybrid systems are blending the precision of keywords with the depth of semantic understanding.

First Terraform, and now Vault: More open source code left by HashiCorp is a finding a home with potential competitors. This time, IBM is sniffing around the spoils.

Telepresence: a local development environment for a remote Kubernetes cluster

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Two talks at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2023 showed the range of tools and services in the observability space.

If not VPNs, then what? These three ideas for connectivity might change the network future by rethinking the traditional service provider concept.

While there is a surge in federated social media sites, like Bluesky and Mastodon, some technologists are hoping to take things further than this model of decentralization with fully peer-to-peer applications. Two leading projects, Spritely and Veilid, hint at what this could look like.There are...