System Architecture

Posted on 2022-05-12

Compute Express Link (CXL) is an upcoming memory technology that is clearly on the minds of Linux memory-management developers; there were five sessions dedicated to the topic at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM). The first three sessions, on May 3, covered various aspects of memory management in the presence of CXL. It seems that CXL may bring some welcome capabilities, especially for cloud-service providers, but that will come at the cost of some headaches on the kernel-development side.

Observe, Inc. has added multiple tools to its observability platform to visualize all datasets and surface underlying event data.

A time series database provides both client libraries and direct access to the database via API to give developers an option that works best for their use case.

GitOps is a new entrant in the industry, making software deployments easy. It’s also a term that’s become popular in recent years in the software development market. This article explores the concept of GitOps and much more.

The novel one-way superconductor that can operate at extremely cold temperatures will highly like to be able to "revolutionize centralized and supercomputing".

Today at its inaugural Intel Vision event, Intel announced advancements across silicon, software and services, showcasing how it brings together technologies and the ecosystem to unlock business value for customers today and in the future.

Every website now uses https://, but it's difficult to configure TLS certificates yourself. This post talks about how to set up on-demand wildcard certificates for free with DNS and LetsEncrypt

It is no secret that containers make up a growing proportion of production workloads. The ability to package up applications into discrete components is certainly nothing new. Package management…

Something I miss after emigrating from the UK to the USA is the using the name of a yeast extract based spread as an adjective. To describe something as “marmite”

golden-software-distro This is a short post documenting a pattern I learned as a user and maintainer of s...

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Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on.

'We're at the start of a whole new era' with knowledge graphs, says Microsoft veteran Bob Muglia, akin to the arrival of the modern data stack in 2013.

Encore is the backend development engine built on the belief that escaping complexity unleashes a higher state of creativity.

Using static analysis of the metadata, Encore creates a graph of your backend system and executes it with an opinionated rules-based engine.

This blog post will walk you through what a microservice catalog is, why it's important, and how you can get one for your company.

Things come, and rarely go.

Mux uses Envoy networking proxy within its Kubernetes clusters to solve known load-balancing issues with gRPC requests and long-lived HTTP/2 connections.

Chapter 7. The Blockchain Introduction The blockchain data structure is an ordered, back-linked list of blocks of transactions. The blockchain can be stored as a flat file, or in a … - Selection from Mastering Bitcoin [Book]

Build a quick and simple blockchain in Python

The ecosystem to transform any database into a distributed database system, and enhance it with sharding, elastic scaling, encryption features & more

Explaining the Database Plus concept, its impact on system architecture design and technology selection, and its innovative solutions.

As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license

No matter what level of openness your cloud service operates on, you have choices for your own environment.

Passwordless bliss may finally be reality soon