System Architecture

PostgreSQL (Postgres), is a powerful relational database that can store a wide range of data types and data structures. When it comes to storing graph data structures we might reach for a database marketed for that use case like Neo4J or Dgraph. Hold your horses! While Postgres is not generally thou...

Redesigning Digital Information - Information designed to fit software logic must now be restructured to serve emergent consumer logic.

Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup. This version adds features new since WAI-ARIA 1.1 [wai-aria-1.1] to improve interoperability with assistive technologies to form a more consistent accessibility model for [HTML] and [SVG2]. This specification complements both [HTML] and [SVG2].

At the WASM I/O conference held in Barcelona, many discussed WebAssembly reaching the edge. Before that will to happen, though, standards will need to be set.

Achieving zero trust security is tricky. A sidecar-less service mesh might make it easier to get there.

Imbuing platform engineering with an additional focus on cost-efficiency can help businesses ride out difficult financial periods and put them on a flywheel for growth.

Passkeys, the popular name for FIDO, are not only easy, they offer better protection against phishing than other forms of multi-factor authentication. This is how they work.

I am extremely happy and excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases. Data API builder is a new product that we are adding to the developer’s toolset to help every developer to be more efficient and effective,

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Public Key Cryptography infrastructure (PKI) has two main implementations. One is done using certificates and certificate authorities (CAs), and is described in the X.509 standard. It is best suited for structured organizational hierarchies with an implicitly trusted authority that vouches for all issued certificates. It’s the standard that is behind SSL/TLS and S/MIME email encryption. …

Empowering individuals to co-create decentralized systems for lasting mutual benefit.

The popular browser extension is selling very detailed information about you to third parties.

Following up on a proposal for an Institutional Web of Trust, Bryan Ford replied in a short Tweet with a question that will be on the back…

I love the idea of decentralized trust, the web of trust, and the fact that anyone can run their own keyserver and isn't beholden to a centralized point of failure. But does the decentralized "feat...

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I'm studying network and system security and I came across the phrase "web of trust". From Wikipedia: In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compati...

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Operating distributed software systems can be a profoundly satisfying intellectual exercise. This article covers some key practical topics.

See the design goals of the Verse programming language and its features. Use this section as a reference.

A simple community driven API for Midjourney

Discover the parody blog post about the Stateful Factory pattern, a made-up design pattern that highlights the importance of critical thinking in software development. Learn how this fictional pattern ‘solves’ object creation problems, and read the humorous account of a code review where it’s ‘successfully’ implemented. This entertaining piece serves as a reminder to avoid blindly following trends and to evaluate the specific needs of your application before applying any design pattern.

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The Saga Pattern is a great tool for durable microservices execution, but it can make maintenance difficult. Here's a recipe for making it work for your systems.