System Architecture

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.

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly.

service discovery is the process of retrieving the list of instances of a service provider for interaction between service consumers and the server provider

This challenge is to build your own Redis Server.

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.

Scalable, interactive data visualization

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

Thousands of the company’s engineers, data scientists, designers, and developers have asked and answered questions about how things work inside their organization.

If you are trying to use a data lake strategy to fulfill your engineering team’s observability needs, that team is going to be frustrated.

Hasura DDN is a new edge network using Graph Query Language and designed for transporting real-time, streaming and analytical data.

Microsoft's customers want more security on Azure, so Microsoft turned to Kata containers to deliver it to them.

Let’s dig into vectors, vector search and the kinds of databases that can store and query vectors.

XDP programs in eBPF allow for very efficient, custom packet handling. The eBPF XDP program is run before it reaches the kernel’s network stack.

Develop a system of observation, experiments and feedback loops to enhance app performance in Kubernetes.

Building a resilient data API that can handle the demands of high volumes of real-time data requires a journey back to first principles.

Nicholaus Cranch has a dream. Imagine if you could draw programs — just like you’d draw a flow chart. Cranch

Let’s examine migration and transformation of transparent, synchronous and asynchronous networking in the context of modern distributed architectures.

Even more rough outlines for nomadic identities

We must advance HPC architectures to lower barriers to resources, expand capabilities, and drive science and enterprise computing.