System Architecture

How you can use microservices with event-sourcing and CQRS to achieve the true benefits attributed to microservices

I frustratingly see APIs everywhere in a world where most do not even know what an API is while also simultaneously using them thousands of times each day. I see and hear the gears of this new digital world turning each day, and can’t help but share stories about what is happening around us while leveraging the stories of others to help me make sense of this moment. I was recently reading About Time - A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney, and learned about the clock that was installed at the Beurs van Hendrick de Keyser, the first stock exchange in 1607. Ever since reading this book I have been thinking about the role that time plays in our endless technological march forward, how the Internet and APIs have shifted our sense of space and time, and ushered us into a new period of markets where we are the commodities and our lives are the next generation of financial products.

A web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to protect your privacy.

A high-level architectural overview of the self-service pipeline

In a few thousand years of humans developing their civilizations, there always has been a big question and that is how human mind actually works? This is not a new question and we can agree on that as a matter of fact. Ancient Greek philosophers had this question. To be honest, this question is somehow

By every measure we can get our hands on, 2022 was a bumper year for server shipments and server spending, which is good indicator for the appetite for

Before Christmas a good friend of mind, Rachel, asked me if I could help her set up a website for a business, she was starting to sell

LiteFS v0.3.0 now supports SQLite's write-ahead log journal mode.

As the number of connected devices continues to grow, the dangers of IoT grows with it. Many IoT devices are designed with convenience in mind, rather than security

Inventory of existing hardware, software and design technologies

Crossplane contains the logic, machinery and reusable components that can be assembled to reliably deliver infrastructure and applications to production.

Supermicro has become the latest of the big OEMs to add Arm-based systems to its portfolio, with the launch of its Mt. Hamilton platform based on the

The importance of data-driven decision-making can't be understated. As companies continue to grow, data curators have the task of finding a needle in a haystack.

As Prometheus’ celebrates its 10-year anniversary, its users are also becoming smarter about what they want and need.

Managing risk in supply chain security starts with risk documentation, risk monitoring and frequent governance.

This is the first of a two-part series. Just like with species, the ability to quickly evolve is a key

A look at strategies implemented by software giants, so you can benefit from their experience and apply their strategies in our own CI/CD pipelines.

Making onboarding easier would result in better customer experience, more customers, and reduced support costs.

An alternate to traditional codedeleted_at/code soft deletion that stays out of the way and minimizes bugs.

While Authentication and Authorization are important in both microservices and monolithic architectures, the decentralized nature of…

ULIDs are an alternative to UUIDs that solve several problems, but it's not all plain sailing. This post shares experience using ULIDs in production, exploring some of the drawbacks in an aim to help others pick an ID format.

If you deal with Web Performance, you've probably heard about HTTP resource prioritization. This is especially true since last year, as Chromium added so-called "Priority Hints" with the new fetchpriority attribute, which allow you to tweak said prioritizations. You may have also heard that the prio

Website for Elixir

Have you ever wondered what object-oriented programming languages are popular in use today? Check out this list to find out.

Schema.org is a set of extensible schemas that enables webmasters to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications.

Skills Taxonomy/Open methodology:At Emsi Burning Glass, we remain committed to uniting the complex web of people, education, and work with the simplicity of a skills-based language. Connecting these groups is essential in engaging people in the workforce, creating unity between education programs and the needs of the market, developing career pathways, and enabling communities to bridge the gap between open jobs and the unemployed.