System Architecture

In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager.

Want to build a function by composition, rather than by writing each function long-hand? Come for the crazy, stay for the tea.

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How to structure your Feedly for Threat Intelligence account to optimize your open source threat intelligence

Both file and object storage protocols have a value in modern IT infrastructure. We should be using the right platform for the job.

Next year, with the launch of the “Grace” Arm server processors, Nvidia will have all of the compute and networking bases it cares about in the datacenter

“You have to spend money to make money” seems to be the mantra being adopted by Backblaze. The cloud storage and backup provider reported Q4 fiscal 2021 revenues up 28 per cent year-on-year at $18.7m with a net loss of $9.6m. B2 cloud storage revenues were 56 per cent higher at $6.6m while Computer Backup […]

This blog post gives an overview of the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix and shares some of the learnings gained while building it

Kaitai Struct is a formal language for binary format specification that can be compiled into parser code

Ockam is a Tool Company. Ockam's open source developer tools make it simple to send trustful end-to-end encrypted messages between connected devices and cloud services.

Does the primitive obsession anti-pattern apply to collections? In other words, should you introduce a custom class for a collection?

The operation of a fine restaurant has uncanny parallels to API life cycle management.

What I learned about trying to run my own cloud from a few weeks of trying to run the whole dang thing myself. (Hint: I found myself trying multiple solutions.)

Stytch aims to provide developers a Stripe-like experience for adding passwordless authentication to their applications.

Island has created what it calls "the world’s first Enterprise Browser," which it says brings security control, visibility and governance.

Self-sovereign identity must be the foundation of Web3 because it is the means for framing ourselves in the digital world and taking action with our peers.

Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not

Nutanix is reshaping its product set into five groups that run across public, private, and hybrid clouds with a consistent operating model and simplified packaging, metering, and pricing. This move is in response to customers finding that although moving to a hybrid multi-cloud model for deploying and managing applications is sensible, the complexity of management, […]

The arrival, acceptance, and establishment of the public cloud has caused a whole new application system infrastructure to be erected across the clouds and on-premises datacentres so that developing and running apps as virtual machines and containers can be eased and optimised. William Blair analyst Jason Ader has described this new cloud infrastructure stack in […]

AMD has finished its acquisition of Xilinx, which ended up costing close to $49 billion instead of the original $35 billion projected when the deal was

While checking out 3D XPoint’s manufacturing location – Intel’s Rio Rancho fab in New Mexico – we came across evidence that Intel had a gen-4 Optane development in April 2020. Optane uses 3D XPoint technology which features a two-layer or deck crosspoint array with phase change memory cells and selectors providing a non-volatile memory that […]

Get an inside look at how a CISO gathers threat intelligence to track a developing incident.

So you’re wondering what the difference is between GPS and GNSS? Good news, you’re not alone and you’ve come to the right place! In this blog, we’ll lay out the similarities, differences, and

Explaining & Implementing the Node2Vec Paper in Python

The new emoji-only URLs rolled out February 1st.

Like most components in the computing landscape, networking hardware has grown steadily faster over time. Indeed, today's high-end network interfaces can often move data more quickly than the systems they are attached to can handle. The networking developers have been working for years to increase the scalability of their subsystem; one of the current projects is the BIG TCP patch set from Eric Dumazet and Coco Li. BIG TCP isn't for everybody, but it has the potential to significantly improve networking performance in some settings.