System Architecture

The FFmpeg School of Assembly Language provides a first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. The lessons give a grounding in the way assembly language is…

#83: Break Into HTTP Headers (15 Minutes)

Discover how power of two load balancing reduces hotspots, achieves O(log log n) max load, and connects to cuckoo hashing for efficiency.

We know more than we can tell. That was how Michael Polanyi distinguished between tacit and explicit knowing. We may know tacitly how we form speech, ride a bike, or sense when to shake hands with …

An excellent detailed second blog on the subject of VirtIO, this time focusing on Vhost.

A reflection on why starting with abstractions—even simple ones—pays off in real-world development.

A Comprehensive Guide to the Safer, Scalable Alternative to Model Context Protocol

Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure have revolutionized how we deploy and manage applications and services, but with traditional data…

Guide to zk-Snarks & how this technology works within privacy cryptocurrencies such as ZCash, Bitcoin Private & inclusion in Ethereum.

Bulletproofs are an important innovation of zero-knowledge proofs & other protocols used to secure and obfuscate cryptocurrency transactions

The Intel® Gaudi® 3 Al accelerator PCIe card (HL-338) is designed to deliver performance and efficiency in a standard PCIe card form factor. The training and inference accelerator is built on the Intel® Gaudi® 5th generation high-efficiency heterogeneous architecture, now in 5nm process technology with state-of-the-art performance, scalability and power efficiency.

Generics are a low-level tool. They are powerful, but dangerous when they escape into the higher layers

Implementing “Exactly once” data delivery in distributed / streaming systems is no easy endeavor. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a couple of strategies we implemented in Epsio for end-to-end “exactly-once” data delivery that are a-bit differe...

Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some problems. This is the everyday …

Explained as simply as possible… but not simpler.

How redefining fairness made our platform more responsive

An introduction to structured concurrency, a new way to design distributed systems, and Scoop, a POC orchestration library.

Getting excited about the upcoming deployment, and showing off my backend solution.