System Architecture

Let’s explore some of the exciting trends we've witnessed and consider the evolving landscape of observability as we anticipate what 2024 has in store.

Gentoo Linux is the prototypical source-based distribution, but there is now a binary installation option available as well.

BumbleBee simplifies the process of building and running distributed eBPF programs, encapsulating them as OCI images and publishes them into an OCI-compliant registry.

The official website for Pluto, a modern Lua dialect.

'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer

UltiHash, a German startup that’s devised a byte-level deduplication algorithm, claiming it dedupes better than existing alternatives, with faster data access as well, has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round. Its deduplication software is deployed in an S3-compatible object storage cluster that can run on-premises or in AWS. The cluster has a head node […]

Ultimately, bringing GenAI apps to market requires a common operating model and platform for data integration.

Can we deploy a Rails monolith with audience-based scaling without breaking it up?

Why SQL can be a valid choice in your API

We have ended up in a world where UNIX and Windows have taken over, and most people have never experienced anything else. Over the years,...

Ever wanted to extend Nginx’s functionality with custom C code? This is the comprehensive guide that you need. Maintained since 2007.

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.