System Architecture

If I navigate to https://blog.cloudflare.com/, my browser will connect to a remote TCP address from the local IP address assigned to my machine, and a randomly chosen local TCP port. What happens if I then decide to head to another site?

The paradox of choice is real when it comes to setting up your data infrastructure. The modern data stack has more options than ever…

The Swift programming language is known for its easy-to-use and efficient syntax. One of its most powerful features is the Codable…

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Fragmented architectures: Mesh (Service Mesh, Space-Based Architecture), Service-Oriented Architecture, Hierarchy (Cell-Based…

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For quite some time now ops has auto-generated firewall rules for various cloud providers such as GCP and AWS. In this tutorial we learn how to implement a network firewall in the Nanos unikernel through simple configuration.

BPF programs destined to be loaded into the kernel are generally written in C but, increasingly, the environment in which those programs run differs significantly from the C environment. The BPF virtual machine and associated verifier make a growing set of checks in an attempt to make BPF code safe to run. The proposed addition of an iterator mechanism to BPF highlights the kind of features that are being added — as well as the constraints placed on programmers by BPF.

With operational availability now essentially publicly available, security is capable of much the same thing focusing on velocity and safety.

Building search functionality in products is a common task. Many solutions exist to solve this problem already. OpenSource tools like opensearch and mellisearch are some examples that are very commonly used. Using a 3rd party tool to build a “full-text search” is a good bet if you have a lot of data (i.e. a lot of users). The goal of this post is to have a look at some in-built tools to build a minimalist search feature when your data is backed by a Postgres (or any SQL) database.

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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…