Graphs: a Balancing Act

System Architecture
9 Differences between JSON and Protobuf! Developers Should Know
Comparing JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) are both popular data interchange formats used in various…
Attention is all you need!
Understanding Attention is All You Need paper. Detailed explanation on self-attention, cross attention and other design choices.
Design Patterns in Golang
In this article, I will introduce 5 master categories of Golang design patterns, including Creational patterns, Structural Patterns…
High Performance Browser Networking (O'Reilly)
What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.
Resilient Systems Through Retrospection
Every breakage is an opportunity to make our systems more resilient. After leading hundreds of incident reviews, I realize that each review can be reduced down to three simple questions. In this post I’ll go over why these questions are exhaustive and what common tactics come from answering these questions.
A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web
PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks - The Next Platform
When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. And the switches are increasingly important in system designs that have a mix of compute and memory types and for
Idempotency in APIs: Handling Duplicate Requests with Golang and Redis
Imagine you are working on a shipping service that exposes an API, and whenever an order is paid successfully, the mentioned API is called…
Rails Way of Background Processing
A comparison of widely used libraries.
How to Avoid the N+1 Query Problem in GraphQL and REST APIs [with Benchmarks]
The N+1 query problem is a performance issue you might face while building APIs, regardless of whether they're GraphQL or REST APIs. In fact, this problem occurs when your application needs to return a set of data that includes related nested data – for example, a post that includes comments.
JSON and Relational Tables: How to Get the Best of Both
JSON and relational tables have their strengths and drawbacks. How can you best harness those strengths in your work, while offsetting the drawbacks?
BPF iterators for filesystems
In the first of two combined BPF and filesystem sessions at the
2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Hou Tao introduced his BPF iterators
for filesystem information. Iterators for
BPF are a relatively recent addition to the BPF landscape; they help
BPF programs step through kernel data structures in a loop-like manner, but
without running afoul of the BPF verifier, which is notoriously hard to
convince about loops.
ISP Column - July 2023
LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly.
LMQL: Programming Large Language Models
LMQL is a query language for large language models (LLMs). It facilitates LLM interaction by combining the benefits of natural language prompting with the expressiveness of Python.
Rich Representation Language - Wikipedia
Virtual Human Markup Language - Wikipedia
VHML
What Is Service Discovery?
service discovery is the process of retrieving the list of instances of a service provider for interaction between service consumers and the server provider
Write Your Own Redis Server | Coding Challenges
This challenge is to build your own Redis Server.
A slack clone in 5 lines of bash
Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests
Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps - Tristan Hume
Alt-Text.org
Using Machine Learning to Answer Questions from Internal Documentation
We have a lot of internal and external documentation about how we do things at thoughtbot. I explored how we could make ChatGPT able to answer people’s questions using this documentation. This articles shows how to do it and the results.
What is Mosaic? | Mosaic
Scalable, interactive data visualization
With Huge Costs, Efficiency Is The Key To Mainstreaming Generative AI
The hype around generative AI is making every industry vibrate at an increasingly high pitch in a way that we have not seen since the days of the Dot Com
Towards an Adaptable Systems Architecture for Memory Tiering at Warehouse-Scale
How Bloomberg’s engineers built a culture of knowledge sharing
Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization.