System Architecture

In uncertain economic times, it can be tempting to do the bare minimum and wait things out until better times arrive. But that’s a risky strategy.

Data is more important than ever and is the cornerstone of a successful AI initiative.

KRaft brings more simplicity to Kafka. But truly Raft-native systems show the most promise for tomorrow’s hypergig streaming data workloads.

A drop-in collection of CSS styles to make simple websites like this just a little bit nicer.

Working with text file as database can querying as RDBMS with SQL Queries.

The SQL link in your *NIX chain

Is it a plain text file or binary file or just character file? Can someone explain what a flat file actually means?

JSONata is a declarative functional language for querying and transforming JSON data. It was inspired by the path semantics of XPath. Whereas other languages that are inspired by XPath also incorpo…

Networks are like the oxygen we breathe — essential, omnipresent, but often unnoticed.

DVFS mechanisms can be exploited to steal data.

We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems. Recently, we noticed that some of our TCP sessions were allocating more memory than expected. This blog post describes in detail the root cause of the problem and shows the test results of a solution

Building even simple Dockerfiles can be a challenge. This article will demonstrate an alternative method of containerizing an application, using Packeto Buildpacks.

Fission co-founder and CTO Brooklyn Zelenka shares how UCANs simplify authorization while keeping it decentralized and preserving user agency.

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an…

Hypothetical x86S architecture would boot straight into 64-bit mode

A site about Bytesize Architecture Sessions. Bytesize Architecture Sessions created by Andrea Magnorsky

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

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Issues around zoned storage for filesystems was the topic of a combined storage and filesystem session at 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit led by Bart Van Assche, Viacheslav A. Dubeyko, and Naohiro Aota. Zoned storage began with the advent of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) devices, but is now implemented by NVMe zoned namespaces (ZNS) as well. SMR devices can have multiple zones with different characteristics, with some zones that can only be written in sequential order, while other, conventional zones can be written in any order. The talk was focused on filesystems using the sequential type of zones since the conventional zones are already well-supported in Linux and its filesystems.

When three years ago Dell rolled out its Apex initiative, the massive IT supplier was joining a growing list of tech companies like HPE, Lenovo, and Cisco

In which I show how ElasticSearch, Solr or another search specific database is probably unnecessary for a lot of PostgreSQL users ... Part 2.

In which I show how ElasticSearch, Solr or another search specific database is probably unnecessary for a lot of PostgreSQL users.

As software engineers, we strive to write code that is easily understandable, maintainable, and well-organized. We find it difficult to…

Learn about asymptotic notations: Big O, Big Omega, and Big Theta. Compare algorithms, predict performance, and optimize code.

An explanation of the Saga Design Pattern, when it is useful, tradeoffs, and how to implement it in plain, simple language.