System Architecture

We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.

Building the Small Web: a public space of individually-owned and controlled places.

Hello! We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We are building the Small Web. No, it’s not web3, it’s web0.

In distributed systems, logical clocks play a key role in the ordering of system events. What are the various logical clock designs, and how do they help with event ordering? This article answers these questions.

RFC 002: Merchandising by exchange as a payment method I. Objective This RFC describes a novel payment method to facilitate merchandising by exchange. This method effectively eliminates the need fo...

A showcase of tools now available on the web thanks to WebAssembly.

Learn more about the steps taken to make forecasts with time series data, which methods are most commonly used, and which are best suited for specific tasks.

For edge computing success, focus on the hardware supply chain from provisioning to spares management.

Prometheus vs. InfluxDB: the ultimate comparison between the two metrics-focused databases, which use cases are ideal and where the advantages lie.

Sponsored Feature: Back in the old days, there was a CPU and chip designers crammed everything into that single CPU, which made sense for the greatest

Cloud data replication extends the traditional approach by sending data to multiple cloud-based data services that stay in sync with one another.

Without talking about Gustafson's law and the assumptions both make.

July 31, 2020

There are four address spaces in PCI express: Memory Mapped I/O mapped Configuration Space Message Can anyone please explain significance of each address space, and it's purpose in brief ? As pe...

CLIs Serving UIs Countless times I’ve found myself shipping CLI tooling amongst teams or co-workers. The challenge of onboarding users to a new CLI is that there’s a whole new set of commands, subcommands, flags, and arguments for the user to work with. While my daily workflows are essentially built on CLIs, there’s no doubting that a UI can ease the on-ramp and usability of your tooling. When I was working on Tanzu Community Edition at VMware, I saw first hand how successful a UI could be.

Users can now block poorly behaving third-party DLLs in Firefox to improve stability and performance.

The need to execute analytics and AI workloads within the same database has become important because it’s the only path for providing a real-time experience.

Dissecting why everybody keeps talking about microservices.

Matt Welsh shares his perspectives about the future of computer science, distributed computing, and if ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent the beginning of the end of programming.

There’s an interesting guideline I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time. I call it Storing information in its highest form.

Let's prioritize web sustainability and work together to create a more sustainable digital future.

A step-by-step guide for enabling golden-path developer IaC actions using Terraform or other GitOps behind the scenes.

Home page for the Data Transfer Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting data transfers

In today's world, when dealing with high levels of system requests, you need applications that can handle them without slowing down. Here’s where Elixir comes in. Elixir is a programming language that is designed to create highly scalable and concurrent applications. Built on Erlang's virtual machine (BEAM), it has been used for decades to build highly reliable and scalable systems.

Capture real HTTP traffic from production or anywhere else, and create OpenAPI from it, for documentation, mocks, SDKs, or contract testing.