System Architecture

Learn about the best practices of JWTs for better security of your application .

We’ve all grown used to logs, metrics and traces serving as the “three pillars of observability.” And indeed they are very important…

William Edmisten

A whirlwind tour of different identifier generation algorithms and the benefits and downsides to them.

Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region

IRC: #arcan @ irc.libera.chat

OpenTelemetry provides capabilities to democratize observability data and empowers engineering teams.

Oban is a background job system built in Elixir and Postgres, and packed with enterprise grade features, real-time monitoring with Oban Web, and complex workflow management with Oban Pro.

An application is usually an orchestration of several components, requiring more advanced session management than a single instance.

Time series data often comes in large volumes that need to be handled carefully to produce insights in near real time.

A written contract benefits the party with the least power. Power might be in the form of money, access to plenty of lawyers or simply a willingness to burn it all down to the ground. In the moment…

Seventy-one percent of low-code tool users said they are able to stick to a 40-hour work week, compared with 44% of devs that don't use the tech.

What had started as twelve people and a dream was now a billion-dollar company.

In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

Interest in the 2022 Rust conference highlights that various types of projects are embracing the popular programming language.

Localtonet secure introspectable tunnels to localhost web development and local gaming

In 2016, David Sax wrote a book called The Revenge of Analog, which made the case that even as we marched towards an ever more digital future, we were increasingly returning to real, tangible things — choosing vinyl records over streaming, brick and mortar bookstores over Amazon, and in-person conversations over Skype. In the intervening […]

A tutorial for getting on Mastodon

Developer Tools for ActivityPub

Like many in the past week, I have been having a serious look at Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter.

Discuss this post With Mastodon being all the rage right now and people massively moving over, new opportunities arise. One of these is that Mastodon allows you to take ownership of your identity using the WebFinger protocol. This way you can have an identitiy like [email protected] without actually having to host your own Mastodon server (or instance in Mastodon lingo). Maarten Balliauw has already posted on how to achieve this but with a little caveat:

Translate `user@domain` mentions to actor profile URIs.

Creating a full-fledged API requires resources, both time and money. You need to think about the model, the design, the REST principles, etc., without writing a single line of code. Most of the time, you don’t know whether it’s worth it: you’d like to offer a Minimum Viable Product and iterate from there. I want to show how you can achieve it without writing a single line of code. The solution The main requirement of the solution is to use the PostgreSQL database. It’s

Multi Computing With Python

This is a problem that comes up every year or two, but no one has implemented a useful solution yet. Advertising is a surprisingly bad way for a culture to pay for content, because the kind of cont…