System Architecture

During the Second World War, the German military developed what were at the time some very sophisticated technologies, including the V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Yet the V-2, …

Create, manage & deploy powerful serverless backends for your websites, apps and microservices using an intuitive low-code interface.

Canonic has taken the low-code route to the repetitive tasks of building backends, enabling a wider swath of business users.

Here's my interview with Brian Kernighan, co-author (with Dennis Ritchie) of The C Programming Language book, to discuss the C programming language and its 50-year history.

It does everything differently, because of course it does.

If a software organization is not yet adopting CI/CD, its leadership and management should realize that they are already behind and at a huge disadvantage.

The ftrace and perf subsystems provide visibility into the workings of the kernel; by activating existing tracepoints, interested developers can see what is happening at specific points in the code. As much as kernel developers may resist the notion, though, not all events of interest on a system happen within the kernel. Administrators will often want to look inside user-space processes as well; they would be even happier with a mechanism that allows the simultaneous tracing of events in both the kernel and user space. The user-events subsystem, developed by Beau Belgrave and added during the 5.18 merge window, promises that capability, but users will almost certainly have to wait another cycle to gain access to it.

Learn how to scale the use of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) to modern backend platforms, where there are many APIs and clients.

For HPC to serve as a growth and innovation engine as workloads move to the cloud, engineering needs a culture change on par with the shift in software development over the past decade from waterfall processes to agile programming with continuous integration and continuous delivery. New capabilities and practices for HPC will require cultural adjustments as well.

Remember the last time you were delighted – really beaming with delight? It probably happened when someone of something surprised your expectations in a good way.

Stories of folks reaching Staff Engineer roles.

At some point, if Microsoft has its way, a substantial amount of computing that enterprise end users do on PCs could end up running in the cloud, and that

What is the difference between centralization and decentralization, and what should you know? I was asked this question recently; here’s my attempt to answer.

This post is part of a series that explores tech comm trends that I’ve either followed or forgotten, and why. The overall goal is to better understand the reasons that drive trend adoption or abandonment in my personal career. This post focuses on API documentation.

This post is part of a series that explores tech comm trends that I’ve either followed or forgotten, and why. The overall goal is to better understand the reasons that drive trend adoption or abandonment in my personal career. This post focuses on Git and GitHub.

How do you know your documentation is good? How do you know if it is answering the most common questions users encounter?

Carefully limiting choices (and complexity) lets developers focus on innovation and not worry about security and operations.

FlowRun - runnable, executable flowcharts

Legacy. The one word engineers cringe when they hear. Nobody wants to work with legacy code or legacy systems. And yet someone has to. Can we do something about it?

What, why and how

Algorithms and data structures were taught at the university, they were complex and difficult to understand, and I always asked why I…

Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity

Modern CPUs and GPUs can all process a lot of data in parallel so what exactly makes them different? This question is getting more relevant as you we see Arm processor add Scalable Vector Extensions…

Software architecture is often a misunderstood idea. Unlike traditional architecture, where the design is separated from construction, in software how something is built influences what is built, and vice versa. Software architecture is about decisions, not structure. Architecting is a skill, and architect should not be a role.

The “ORM vs. SQL” holy war has raged for decades. EdgeDB provides a third option.

Firecracker is the technology which powers Serverless, but it can be also be repurposed to run end-to-end tests quickly and cheaply.