System Architecture

We cover everything you need to know to decide if and when to use Event Driven Architectures, and how to make a compelling business case for it.

Intel has signalled the end-of-life for its low-cost NUC mini-server line of PCs, which means Scale Computing will have to find a replacement edge system hardware supplier. And it’s found one: Simply NUC. NUC is Intel’s grandly named Next Unit of Compute, a small form-factor PC which has a 4-inch by 4-inch board inside with […]

Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. Back in December 2020 it killed off the CentOS distribution that lives downstream from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and created the CentOS Stream variant that lives upstream where bugs are not yet

Vulnerabilities in third-party managed file transfer services have led to hundreds of companies worldwide having their data stolen.

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Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the p...

Through the AWS documentation, books like AWS in Action or AWS training, you can gain theoretical knowledge. But beyond that,...

Syndicating code globally to be deployed locally allows just-in-time modifications to customize web apps.

It's time for compliance to play in tune and in tempo with the entire orchestra: security, risk, threat intelligence and incident response.

A step by step guide to create and deploy a complete Function as a Service architecture you can host on your private resources

Get a quick grasp of the best practices for fast and efficient data indexing with our short guide.

Comparing JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) with Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) are both popular data interchange formats used in various…

Understanding Attention is All You Need paper. Detailed explanation on self-attention, cross attention and other design choices.

In this article, I will introduce 5 master categories of Golang design patterns, including Creational patterns, Structural Patterns…

What every web developer must know about mobile networks, protocols, and APIs provided by browser to deliver the best user experience.

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.

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

Imagine you are working on a shipping service that exposes an API, and whenever an order is paid successfully, the mentioned API is called…

A comparison of widely used libraries.

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 have their strengths and drawbacks. How can you best harness those strengths in your work, while offsetting the drawbacks?

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.

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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.