System Architecture

Learn why read-only infrastructure eliminates entire classes of security attacks, improves reproducibility, and simplifies compliance while enabling predictable deployments.

Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.

We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t really be able to explain or predic…

In Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk Down," he notes that young soldiers repeatedly describe the shocking surreality of combat as "like being in a movie." As the book covers events that occurred in 1993, these soldiers have no other frame of reference. The soldier of today grew up in a

What is a Merkle tree? Why and how does Bitcoin use Merkle trees?

Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make that connection without another BOM item…

This document gives the theory behind SPKI certificates and ACLs without going into technical detail about those structures or their uses. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

The SPKI Working Group first established a list of things one might want to do with certificates (attached at the end of this document), and then summarized that list of desires into requirements. This document presents that summary of requirements. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

Every business today depends on its website to connect with customers, but too often those websites turn into roadblocks instead of tools for growth. They slow down, break when updated, or become difficult to maintain without hiring a full-time developer. Modern marketing teams need something different: websites that are fast, flexible, and built to evolve

Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.

Compare how Startpage stacks up next to non-private search engines.

Disco is an open-source PaaS that turns any Linux server into a deployment platform. Get the git push workflow you love, without the per-app markup.

Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Innovation is a tricky subject. The precise details of how to do it are not well studied, at least not under the name “innovation”. In addition, multiple...

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Good DX helps developers build faster, but it’s not enough. Learn why component libraries fail teams and how to build design systems that truly scale.

What good architecture looks like, how to improve your skill at building it –and why Architects are not always the answer. Guest post by Matthew Hawthorne, who built large systems at Netflix & Twitter

A while ago I wrote an article about linting Markdown files with markdownlint. In that article, I presented the use case of linting the Markdown source files for this site. While manually running linting checks is fine—there are times and situations when this is appropriate and necessary—this is the sort of task that is ideally suited for a Git pre-commit hook. In this post, I’ll discuss Git pre-commit hooks in the context of using them to run linting checks.

Authors: Adrian Taruc and James Dalton

Drop in any well-typed Python function; the loop builds the tool schema and wiring for you. How I build dumb demos and experiments.

Your product's core abstractions determine whether new features compound into a moat or just add to a feature list. Here's how to get it right.

No matter when or how often the nodes sync, they always end up with the same state.

Hi, I’ve been reading about Apache Cassandra since the last 2 weeks.

Updates on Tailscale's efforts to improve NAT traversal, for its client and for the web at large.