System Architecture

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Administrators and compliance teams can use audit logs to investigate user actions, spot suspect activity and adhere to regulatory frameworks.

The ublk subsystem enables the creation of user-space block drivers that communicate with the kernel using io_uring. Drivers implemented this way show some promise with regard to performance, but there is a bottleneck in the way: copying data between the kernel and the user-space driver's address space. It is thus not surprising that there is interest in implementing zero-copy I/O for ublk. The mailing lists have recently seen three different proposals for how this could be done.

Using rules as code to help bridge the gaps between policy creation, its implementation, and its, often unintended, effects on people was the subject of a talk by Pia Andrews on the first day of the inaugural Everything Open conference in Melbourne, Australia. She has long been exploring the space of open government, and her talk was a report on what she and others have been working on over the last seven years. Everything Open is the successor to the long-running, well-regarded linux.conf.au (LCA); Andrews (then Pia Waugh) gave the opening keynote at LCA 2017 in Hobart, Tasmania, and helped organize the 2007 event in Sydney.

Edge computing can ensure things keep functioning when reliability is vital and network connectivity can’t be guaranteed.

How open API specifications can help developers—and computers—understand your APIs.

A proposal for on-device ad auctions to choose relevant ads from websites a user has previously visited, designed so it cannot be used by third parties to track user browsing behavior across sites.

We are improving Chrome’s privacy measures by partnering with Fastly to implement the 𝑘-anonymity server for FLEDGE. With data being relayed through an OHTTP relay in this implementation, Google servers do not receive the IP addresses of end users. The 𝑘-anonymity server is an incremental step towards the full implementation of FLEDGE.

Thanks to Meta LLaMA, AI text models have their "Stable Diffusion moment."

VEX documents, a companion to software bills of materials (SBOMs), describe how and whether a piece of software is affected by a certain vulnerability.

The media understanding platform serves as an abstraction layer between Machine Learning (ML) algos and various applications.

We talk about scale a lot here at The Next Platform, but there are many different aspects to this beyond lashing a bunch of nodes together and counting

For several years, the fast startup time of an application or service in Java has been a highly discussed topic. According to the authors of numerous articles, it seems if you don’t apply som…

Every programmer faces the problem of finding good names to communicate the author’s intent. See how science answers this question and get actionable insights.

I started agitating for this in 1997 and wrote about it in 2006. The problem with the magical medium of email is that it’s an open API. Anyone with a computer can plug into it, without anyone…

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A case study of how Elixir is being used at SparkMeter.

Daniel Lemire talks about the lessons learned while writing the fast JSON parser, simdjson. One of the most important lessons is the importance of a nearly obsessive focus on performance metrics - to constantly measure the impact of the choices.

A closer look at storage routing in Husky, Datadog's third-generation event storage system.

Signal K is about publishing a common modern and open data format for marine use. A format for the modern boat, compatible with NMEA, friendly to WiFi, cellphones, tablets, and the Internet. A format available to everyone, where anyone can contribute.

Decoupling components enables you to deal with performance issues, cost optimization and feature development separately for each service.

Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

To keep unit tests fast and isolated, the data access layer is often tested using a mock of the database. But are unit tests and mocks actually a good choice?

The personal website of JT Archie. Includes a blog, work ethic, and projects they have worked on.

UK startup PEAK:AIO has rewrittten some of the NFS stack and LInux RAID code to get a small 1RU server with a PCIe 5 bus sending 80GB/sec of data to a single GPU client server for AI processing. Three cheap servers doing this would send 240GB/sec to the GPU server, faster than high-end storage arrays […]

When we work with databases, there can be multiple events that can go wrong. A few of them are:

This pattern is one of the useful patterns for functional programming languages, especially for the Elixir programming language because of…