System Architecture

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We're experimenting with an API for making persistent storage eviction under heavy memory pressure more predictable, and we'd love your feedback.

In the past I was part of a project with rather specialized data. It was important to create records in a database that had a certain validity, but it was al...

The thing I love most about programming over the years has always been design and optimization work....

A certain amount of traffic tips the scales to make serverless a more expensive bill at the end of the month

We assume that browser caches are near-instantaneous, but data shows that retrieving an object from cache can take hundreds of milliseconds!

I know little about GraphQL, but based on what I’ve seen so far, it is a very promising technology for providing access to data and delivering over open APIs. Unlike other API specifications whose focus is on services, GraphQL is data centric and essentially provides a standard way to query datasets and deliver schema documentation in machine actionable formats. So I’m very hyped about this but need to understand the current state of affairs and how far this can go.

HTTP is a stateless protocol, meaning each request is independent of any other request. This is different from a stateful protocol, where ...

Connect Hasura to existing/new PostgreSQL DBs for instant, realtime GraphQL APIs. Leverage Postgres native types, functions & optimize for performance.

GraphQL is used in many different ways. In this post, I'd like to show why GraphQL is not ideal as a configuration language.

I wrote this blog to showcase a GraphQL RDF bridge using a Star Wars dataset that I found. It explains what I did in TerminusDB

A query language for your API — GraphQL provides a complete description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

Let's move on to discuss another topic that isn't necessarily new, but is recently making a stir in the programming world.

Berners-Lee said people too often conflate Web3 with "Web 3.0," his own proposal for reshaping the internet.

FFmpeg.guide is a GUI for creating FFmpeg filters and complex commands

Many developers learn development through mistakes and disaster

Browser-based research platform designed for clarity, comprehensiveness, and collaboration. Create interactive citation graphs of your own research topics.

AWS' Madelyn Olson describes how Redis can be used in a broader cloud native ecosystem.

by Tomasz Bak and Fabio Kung

User permissions are a crucial clog in the SaaS machine. Learn more about what they really are and how to implement them effectively in your app today.

This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, emLearning Digital Identity/em, which will be available January 2023.

Move fast but don’t break things.

How ETL, ELT and Reverse-ETL tools get in the way of building better data products.