System Architecture

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PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also …

Everyone is excited over the Raspberry Pi 5 getting explicit PCI Express (PCIe) bus capability (some Raspberry Pi 4 boards were hacked to get to internal PCIe lanes).  PCIe has been in modern deskt…

Pinterest's tech stack explained simply (5 minute read)

Trees and their various types.

We asked analyst Chris Evans for his views on mainstream suppliers and new technologies like ephemeral cloud and decentralized storage.

Migrating from a single- to a multi-architecture framework can be tricky. Here’s how early adopters are simplifying the process.

Microsoft delivers its own version of OpenJDK 21.

Exploring the tradeoffs of different database indexes; from sequential integers, randomly generated UUIDs, to time-based identifiers and the latest & greatest UUIDv7

Hazelcast combines a stream processor with a fast data store for real-time data integration, analysis, and machine learning inferences.

Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme sca…

How a Simple Scan Unlocks Your Whole WhatsApp World on Desktop

Definitions of algorithms, data structures, and classical Computer Science problems. Some entries have links to implementations and more information.

We looked to the Mongoose project for the kinds of data access patterns that Node.js developers need to bring the scale of Cassandra to documents.

1. create a unique paste ID 2. encode the paste ID 3. persist the paste ID in SQL store and paste in the object storage

#9: Read Now - Awesome Rate Limiter (4 minutes)

How we killed SQL and built a machine learning model in its place

OpenTelemetry vs. OpenTracing - differences, evolution, and ways to migrate to OpenTelemetry

Learn about refresh tokens and how they help developers balance security and usability in their applications.

Valve's work on Steam OS 3 for the Steam Deck help everyone, corporate users included

Give platform teams workflows and checklists for building observability into their platform.

If you analyze successful study groups you can discern their patterns. These patterns energize, inspire and sustain a group over time

We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. Meta Platforms, which has Facebook as its core

New research into a subset of machine learning called lifelong learning (LL) suggests that machines are indeed capable of human-like learning.