System Architecture

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Introduction to Tetragon - eBPF-based Security Observability & Runtime Enforcement

We cover the basics of eBPF and the verifier component, which is supposed to make sure the code is safe to run.

Developers are turning to application-specific blockchains — purpose-built and tuned for application needs, colloquially called appchains.

At Qonto, we noticed that it is powerful for business owners to grant cards for one-off expenses to their employees. That’s why we created…

Tampermonkey is a free browser extension and the most popular userscript manager. It's available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox. Even though some of the supported browsers have native userscript support, Tampermonkey will give you much more convenience in managing your userscripts. It provides features like easy script installation, automatic update checks, a simple overview what scripts are running at a tab, a built-in editor and there is a good chance that incompatible scripts run fine with Tampermonkey. So give it a try!

It's important to note that a web application is first of all a website. It has everything it takes to be a website. The particularity lies in...

The addition of the ublk driver during the 6.0 merge window would have been easy to miss; it was buried deeply within an io_uring pull request and is entirely devoid of any sort of documentation that might indicate why it merits a closer look. Ublk is intended to facilitate the implementation of high-performance block drivers in user space; to that end, it uses io_uring for its communication with the kernel. This driver is considered experimental for now; if it is successful, it might just be a harbinger of more significant changes to come to the kernel in the future.

While there has been a lot of discussion recently about whether or not WebAssembly (Wasm) will eventually replace Docker containers, it appears the two are also complementary.

Since joining Energy Sparks I’ve started investing time in trying to understanding the UK energy system and, in particular, the parts of its data infrastructure and broader ecosystem that we …

The Problem Working in Cloud Native consulting, I’m often asked about who should do various bits of ‘the platform work’. I’m asked this in various forms, and at various leve…

A number of streaming challenges that once seemed formidable can readily be solved just by putting streams at the center of the world.

This demonstrates why stronger antitrust legislation is badly needed.

Building a in-browser Kubernetes experience is a fairly unusual product decision. Here's how and why we did it.

NGINX, at its core, is a collection of modules. It contains several in built modules as well as hundreds of third party modules, contributed by developers from all over the world. With the addition of dynamic module support, modules have given us greater flexibility in adding functionalities to NGINX. In

Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.

A simple HTML attribute that tells the browser which assets to load first, called called Priority Hints, has improved the load time of the largest images on Etsy’s product listing pages by 4%.

Though it is not a mainstream language, Clojure was the right language for Penpot to choose because of its key features: stability, backwards compatibility, and syntactic abstraction.

GitHub isn't just for the pure software nerds. We hybrid software/hardware physical computing geeks, gadgeteers, engineers and inventors have a place there too