System Architecture

Modernizing high-performance computing.

Hello, world! Announcing the launch of a new way to learn how to create Web Components.

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Learning Digital Identity, which will be available January 2023.

The kernel's memory-management developers have been busy before and during the holidays; the result is a number of patch sets making significant changes to that subsystem. It is time for a quick look at three of those projects. Two of them aim to increase the sharing of page tables between processes, while the third takes advantage of the multi-generational LRU to create a better picture of what a process's working set actually is.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a multi-platform cloud-based endpoint protection product that comprises multiple capabilities and features. There are many moving parts that make up Defender for Endpoint, and many of these parts require network connectivity. Disconnected and air-gapped environment...

I am making more progress on automating my Mastodon world. Throughout the holidays I spent time getting to know the Mastodon API, forking and iterating upon an OpenAPI for the API, and generating a mix of capability API collections that accomplished what I was needing to do with the Mastodon API. Now I am getting to work automating my different Mastodon instances using what I have built. I am not entirely sure what I am automating, as this will vary from instance to instance. The mastodon.apievangelist.com domain will require a very different approach to API automation than mastodon.kinlane.com will. One is professional and one is personal. Adding even more complexity to the federated chaos, I will not just be automating this across domains I control, but because of the nature of my research, I will be automating some aspects of this using many of the leading Mastodon instances. While talking to people during this work I (once again) realize how much I assume of people when it comes to onboarding with APIs, with Postman, and being able to follow, let alone put to use anything I am building. In an effort to bridge this divide I am going to keep polishing how I talk about it here on the blog, producing many different narratives for how I can introduce people to this work with the federated Mastodon API. A significant portion of what I am building involves understanding what Postman does, and how Postman works with any API, including the Mastodon API. To follow along it helps to have a healthy understanding of Postman which you can get via the learning center, but beyond that it helps to understand how the Postman building blocks help automate activity across federated APIs like Mastodon, by leveraging these Postman platform capabilities.

Enfabrica is developing a technology solution it claims will be “able to scale across every form of distributed system."

DocArray is hosted by the Linux Foundation to provide an inclusive and standard multimodal data model within the open source community and beyond.

Pagetable recently dissected and dumped the Level 2 “Plus” version of HP’s PostScript cartridge series. This time, they will look at the earlier Level 1 “PostScript Cartridge”. There are two cartri…

libcpucycles is a public-domain microlibrary for counting CPU cycles. Cycle counts are not as detailed as Falk diagrams but are the most precise timers available to typical software; they are centr…

The new year means new calendars. This project shows off why an e-ink display makes a great calendar. The clean, crisp and highly legable design draws inspiration from Portal. Because its low power…

Differential privacy makes it possible to extract useful insights from datasets while safeguarding the privacy of individuals. Learn more about this new open source project.

Learn about differential privacy from Microsoft AI. Safeguard the privacy of people while enabling deeper analysis to empower research and innovation.

We are engaging a community of collaborators in academia, industry, and government to build trustworthy, open-source software tools for statistical analysis of sensitive private data

Linear streamlines issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. It’s the new standard for modern software development.

From Gathering To Filtering Software Development, API development, Indutrial IOT

Google's new technology, Confident Adaptive Language Modeling (CALM), speeds up large language models (LLM) upto 3 times.

For data management, Data Mesh will continue to soak up plenty of oxygen. But behind the headlines, watch for critical mass ecosystems to form around Data Lakehouses.

Intel has expanded its effort to drive adoption of its oneAPI initiative to include support for its latest generation of processors.

An effective runtime security strategy takes each layer into consideration and monitors the process within each container.

The kernel's fscrypt subsystem enables filesystems to store files and directories in encrypted form, protecting them against offline attacks. A few filesystems support encryption with fscrypt currently, but Btrfs is an exception, despite a number of attempts to add this feature. The problem is that, as so often seems to be the case, Btrfs works differently and does not fit well with one of the key assumptions in the design of fscrypt. With this patch series, Sweet Tea Dorminy is working to enhance fscrypt to be a better fit for filesystems like Btrfs.

HTTP/3 is is still in its early days with a lot of room to mature, but if you need uninterrupted user experiences on the move, you can start adopting it now.