System Architecture

Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.

What is a decision tree? What is a random forest? How do they decide to split the data? How do they predict class labels in classification…

Guest post by Jan Van Bruggen, Developer Relations Lead at itopia In the past decade, we’ve seen the rise, standardization and meme-ification of “as code”: Infrastructure as Code, Monitoring as Code…

Building Software and Processes for Unreliable Scenarios

This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following components: Distributed Storage Usually, this component has an interface of a key-value store: Get(key) and Set(key, value), where key and value are some binary strings.

For a few years, serverless has been pushed hard by the different cloud providers as a magical solution for all our problems. Before we get too far, let's clarify things. Here we are talking about serverless functions: AWS lambda or Scaleway Serverless Functions, where you upload a simple .zip file

Decentralized identity can give everyone an identity in cyberspace—a digital concept with deeply human roots.

I have rarely been as enthusiastic about a new research direction. We call them GFlowNets, for Generative Flow Networks. They live somewhere at the intersection…

Design Axioms by Juhan Sonin.

The design should not only be concerned with beauty, but it should also be functional.

Refactoring is a controllable process of improving code without creating new functionality. Design Patterns are typical solutions to the commonly occurring problems in software design.

I've previously blogged about the unexpected complications of minor features , which covers how adding a seemingly small software change can turn out to be much...

In order to find out which AI races should be prioritized for regulatory oversight, the researchers created an AI model that simulated various hypothetical scenarios for AI races.

What does the future of zero trust security look like? Companies are catching up especially with remote work and security must follow.

A look at the development process for Octopus Deploy's configuration as code implementation, as well as the design decisions and more.

One of the interesting development aims of Unity is creating solutions that move nearer to industry norms beyond games development. My previous article introduced Unity from the standpoint of an application developer looking to cross-develop at a higher presentational quality. Or perhaps just to build a game, as Unity is typically used for. Unity Technologies […]

How to use Ephemeral Containers to debug Kubernetes workloads with and without the kubectl debug command.

The Pi Hole project adds an entire new level of performance and security to our home network. Powered by Docker and a Raspberry PI I can now block all unwanted Ads and Metrics network wide.

While I’m not a programmer per se, I do use git almost daily and find it a great tool for source control and versioning of plain text files. But I don’t think there can be any doubt that it is not the easiest tool to use.

For many open source consumers the "logical units" being depended on are libraries. However, the libraries themselves are only a product of what consumers are actually depending on: people. Y...

The ID-mapped mounts feature was added to Linux in 5.12, but the general idea behind it goes back a fair bit further. There are a number of different situations where the user and group IDs for files on disk do not match the current human (or process) user of those files, so ID-mapped mounts provide a way to resolve that problem—without changing the files on disk. The developer of the feature, Christian Brauner, led a discussion at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM) on ID-mapped mounts.

Take a look at this annotated resource list to better understand 10BASE-T1L SPE - what it is, why it matters, and use cases.

We have looked at what we mean by cloud-native in an earlier post here . Recently we also looked at edge-native infrastructure here . While ...

Learn how to combine multiple C object files into single executable with dynamic libraries.