System Architecture

The last year or so has seen the posting of a few new filesystem types that are aimed at supporting container workloads. PuzzleFS, presented at the 2023 Kangrejos gathering by Ariel Miculas, is another contender in this area, but it has some features of its own, including a novel compression mechanism and an implementation written in Rust.

Improve your security posture and transition from static API tokens to OAuth 2.0. Learn why and how in this post.

Couchbase introduced generative AI capabilities into its Database as a Service Couchbase Capella to significantly enhance developer productivity and accelerate time to market for modern applications.

Over the past ten years, my journey in software development has underscored one vital lesson: a well-designed modular architecture significantly influences the trajectory of a project’s evolution. This is an insight I honed during my tenure at SoundCloud and encapsulated in the microfeatures architecture. Later, I integrated this insight into the Tuist project. Interestingly, Shopify has also embraced a similar modular approach within their monolith. However, their adaptation is less publicized,...

A primer on what developers need to know about WebAssembly, what it’s used for, its pros and cons, and what the future may hold for Wasm.

What is GCP? In this article, we explore Google Cloud Platform, its key features, and the skills needed to thrive in this field.

We are still plowing through the many, many presentions from the Hot Interconnects, Hot Chips, Google Cloud Next, and Meta Networking @ Scale conferences that all happened recently and at essentially the same time. And we intend to take our usual, methodical approach of finding the interesting bits and doing some analysis on what we

For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, or DPUs. And so the

Howdy, tech aficionados 😎! NGINX, the rockstar of reverse proxy and load balancing, is here to dazzle your developer senses. If you’re…

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distributed system pattern

1. Hashed IP addresses are used to assign a position for the nodes 2. Hash ring is traversed until a node is found

Based on what Intel has been saying for the past several weeks in various events, but especially the Hot Chips 2023 a few weeks ago and the more recent Intel Innovation 2023 extravaganza, the company’s foundry process roadmap and its server processor roadmaps are going to align harmoniously to make the Xeon SP family of

Vector search engines are an important new database feature with multiple architectural challenges, including scale-out, garbage collection, concurrency, effective use of disk, and composability. Here is how DataStax added these features to Astra DB.

The recent release also includes improvements for logical representations, which support new architectures, and superuser permissions.

This blog post explores the emergence of event-driven architectures (EDAs) and the components that make up event-driven systems. It also presents two fundamental design patterns that help illustrate how the components of event-driven architectures work together.

Give platform teams workflows and checklists for building provisioning into their platforms.

Platform team workflows and checklists for building security, pipelines, provisioning, connectivity, orchestration, and observability into their platform.

What's the difference between a data warehouse, data lake, lakehouse, and data mesh? Here's a whirlwind guide.

When it comes to natural disasters, every second counts—and the clock may just be ticking a little slower following a collaboration between Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU). By entangling quantum computing with traditional algorithms, the team has paved a 'superposition' of escape routes designed to evacuate people more quickly and efficiently in

Network telemetry is a technology for gaining network insight and facilitating efficient and automated network management. It encompasses various techniques for remote data generation, collection, correlation, and consumption. This document describes an architectural framework for network telemetry, motivated by challenges that are encountered as part of the operation of networks and by the requirements that ensue. This document clarifies the terminology and classifies the modules and components of a network telemetry system from different perspectives. The framework and taxonomy help to set a common ground for the collection of related work and provide guidance for related technique and standard developments.

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Programmability Guide, Release 9.2(x)-Inband Network Telemetry