Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

When it comes to performance optimization, streamlining capacity management or reducing operational complexity, Kubernetes on bare metal comes out ahead.

When developing a decentralized application, querying and using blockchain data via APIs is difficult. The Graph protocol aims to fix this.

Created by Jonghong Park, 'Catastrophic Combinations' explores a recursive system of mechanical repetition where every movement is open to unpredictability and fault.

As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the

Change is inevitable. But it's worth taking a breather and making sure your BC/DR strategy is still relevant and appropriate.

Andreas Kling, a Swedish developer, tells the "ReCursive" podcast how an unfinished childhood goal and addiction recovery led him to create a new OS. #programming #developers #OS

You’re driving along a road and you come across a fence blocking your way. What do you do? You could tear it down. After all, what’s the use of a fence over a road? But you would be wise to reconsider.

You use Kubernetes to orchestrate containers. It's an easy description to say, but understanding what that actually means and how you accomplish it is another matter entirely. If you're running or managing a Kubernetes cluster, then you know that Kubernetes consists of one computer that gets designated as the control plane, and lots of other computers that get designated as worker nodes. Each of these has a complex but robust stack making orchestration possible, and getting familiar with each component helps understand how it all works.

If you've wanted to create your own custom Xeon, now's your chance

Engo Eyewear's designers managed to fit it astride the nosebridge

Apache Druid is an open-source analytics database with an architecture that is multi-purpose, distributed and has different nodes to perform certain tasks.

New entrants into the backup storage market are taking primary storage solutions and adapting them for data protection use cases.

In faith that nothing lasts forever, and that an institution that’s been around since 1636 is more likely to keep something published online for longer than one that was born in 1994 and isn&…

Introduction As part of Uber engineering’s wide efforts to reach profitability, recently our team was focused on reducing cost of compute capacity by improving efficiency. Some of the most impactful work was around GOGC optimization. In this blog we want to share our experience with a highly effective, low-risk, large-scale, semi-automated Go GC tuning mechanism. Uber’s tech stack is composed of thousands of microservices, backed by a cloud-native, scheduler-based infrastructure. Most of these services are written in Go. Our team, Maps Production Engineering, has previously played an instrumental role in significantly improving the efficiency of multiple Java services by tuning

Understanding a common pattern of entity models evolve, and why the process works that way.

Sustainable web design is an approach to designing digital products and services that puts people and planet first.

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More than three decades ago a Stanford professor proposed a uniform way of expressing your odds of dying from a specific cause: the micromort. It’s time it went mainstream.

A deep dive into the futex system call and how it is used to process synchronization functions.

Examples of Postgres constraints using a schema and data requirements for a reservation system.

There's the Heroku-style PaaS, easy to use, but limited. Kubernetes offers endless possibilities with complexity. What if we could get the best of both?

The world’s best companies – from startups to the Fortune 10 – trust Tines with their mission-critical security workflows.

Federated software: from many, one