System Architecture

Introduction If you've ever had to deal with firewalls and complex ACLs, you'll know that they can be tricky beasts from time to time! Whether it's having to generate your firewall configuration for different vendors or wading through the jungle of nested object groups to add a new host. Whatever

There are some surprising and compelling use cases that most platform engineering folks miss.

How does Wasm fit in with JavaScript? Michael Yuan, CEO of Second State, explains what frontend and web developers need to know.

Over the last few months I’ve been intrigued by a question: where is the frustration and disillusionment, so prevalent currently in the software industry, coming from? And, as an engineering leader, what can I learn from this discontent and how should it shape my practices?

I got a new laptop and had to move my data from my old laptop. After copying all necessary files including code repos (data is expensive in…

A session ID, or session identifier, allows comfortable use of the internet by making sure that the user remains clearly identified throughout their session.

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WordPress pingbacks and trackbacks may seem useful, but they come with a lot of drawbacks. Let's discuss the pros and cons of these features!

Many people are still confused about what exactly trackbacks and pinbacks in WordPress are. Learn more about them and how they can be a useful tool.

You've probably seen webhooks integrations in a few of your applications, and you're wondering: What are they and should I be using them?

HarperDB is a turn-key solution for the collection, distribution, and analysis of data throughout your organization.

A Sydney-based Software Development Consultancy building cutting edge Web and API experiences with Elixir, TypeScript, GraphQL and React.

A blog post on KHyperLogLog, an algorithm that can help estimate certain privacy risks of very large databases.

In Marken (Scalable Annotation Service at Netflix), an annotation is a piece of metadata which can be attached to an object from any domain.

Explore how the IOTA Foundation is tackling supply chain digitization in East Africa, including the role of open source distributed ledgers and NoSQL.

Thomas has built a secure communications network leveraging the plug-and-play qualities of the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Adafruit LoRa Radio Bonnet. It is the software side of this system that really …

Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.

Data-Oriented programming influences and how it compares with best practices from other programming paradigms.

Principles of Data-Oriented Programming. Benefits and costs of Data-Oriented Programming. DOP vs OOP. DOP vs FP.

Learn how to classify text using either natural language processing (NLP) or regular pattern matching.

JavaScript Promises evaluate eagerly, but sometimes that's a problem. This post covers why and how to create custom lazy-evaluating promises.