System Architecture

Explore services vs monoliths tradeoffs—when to start with services, avoid mono-repos, and keep complexity in check. Practical tips for your next build.

Bridging ORCID into the Fediverse

Stories of visionaries from the past, present, & future of responsible tech, and the science fiction that inspired them. Available now from Apress.

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

Der Prototype Fund unterstützt Entwickler*innen dabei, ihre Open-Source-Software mit gesellschaftlichem Mehrwert zu entwickeln.

Part 3: System Strategies and Architecture

Infrastructure as Code, but actually

With edge-native computing and multiregion, multicloud, multi-edge deployments, we’ve entered the age of the location-independent nomadic apps.

How decentralizing cloud software could solve privacy risks, eliminate vendor lock-in, and create new opportunities for innovation.

On Bloat Rob Pike Brighter Tech Commonwealth Bank September 30, 2024

Former EA engineer Jeaye Wilkerson goes all-in on developing jank, a new programming language that combines Clojure's interactive nature with native compilation and minimal runtime requirements.

Every new medium looks to what has come before for guidance. Web design has taken cues from centuries of typography and graphic design. Web development has borrowed metaphors and ideas from the world of architecture. Let's take a tour of some of the most influential ideas from architecture that have crossed over into the web, from pattern languages to responsive design. Together we'll uncover how to build resilient, performant, accessible and beautiful structures that work with the grain of the materials of the web.

The real bottleneck might not be in your pipeline but rather in the way your application interacts with cloud services.

MetaAutomation starts with making automation failures actionable, maximizing the value of automation results, and continues by automating triage. MetaAutomation reduces the cost of fixing existing automation and ensures that automation helps your quality measurements and improvements, rather than hindering them.

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I've got into a discussion in the comments of https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/109199/is-physical-security-less-important-now-for-securing-a-server?noredirect=1#comment194327_109199 The

For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers.

Write code that’s easier to read, remix, and modify by following this trio of principles.

Event Destinations is a set of guidelines outlining a new pattern for triggering events without webhooks. Here's how it helps developers.

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

On Thursday, February 20, 2025 Elon Musk tweeted that X ’Community Notes” are “increasingly being gamed by governments and legacy media.” But back in January, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta is dropping fact-checking in favor of community notes: “We’ve seen this approach work on X.”  So does it stop disinformation or not? And is it […]

Before RFC 6265 was published in 2011, the world of cookies was a combination of anarchy and guesswork because the only "spec" there was was not actually a spec but just a brief text lacking a lot of details. RFC 6265 brought order to a world of chaos. It was good. It made things a … Continue reading My cookie spec problem →

A story about deployment, automation and self-hosting

The newly-chartered AI Preferences (AIPREF) Working Group will work on standardizing building blocks that allow for the expression of preferences about how content is collected and processed for Artificial Intelligence (AI) models.

Programmable analog arrays seem like a good idea and complement the widely used FPGA – so why haven’t they succeeded?

The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts. The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every promise

People should be able to use a password to log in to a site without having to check their email