System Architecture

We manage the build pipeline that delivers Quip and Slack Canvas’s backend. A year ago, we were chasing exciting ideas to help engineers ship better code, faster. But we had one huge problem: builds took 60 minutes. With a build that slow, the whole pipeline gets less agile, and feedback doesn’t come to engineers until…

There are two competing forces in IT, and they are at play during the GenAI era as much as they have ever been during prior eras in the datacenter. One is

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The following article originally appeared on Gradient Flow and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.We're living through a peculiar moment

Netflix accelerates ML/AI development with Metaflow’s new spin command, enabling notebook-like iteration in production-ready workflows.

The next time you use a tool like ChatGPT or Perplexity, stop and count the total words being generated to fulfill your request. Each word results from a

A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance. Learn what state belongs in URLs, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical patterns for modern web apps.

Learn why read-only infrastructure eliminates entire classes of security attacks, improves reproducibility, and simplifies compliance while enabling predictable deployments.

Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.

We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t really be able to explain or predic…

In Mark Bowden's book "Black Hawk Down," he notes that young soldiers repeatedly describe the shocking surreality of combat as "like being in a movie." As the book covers events that occurred in 1993, these soldiers have no other frame of reference. The soldier of today grew up in a

What is a Merkle tree? Why and how does Bitcoin use Merkle trees?

Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times, it would be nice to make that connection without another BOM item…

This document gives the theory behind SPKI certificates and ACLs without going into technical detail about those structures or their uses. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

The SPKI Working Group first established a list of things one might want to do with certificates (attached at the end of this document), and then summarized that list of desires into requirements. This document presents that summary of requirements. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

Every business today depends on its website to connect with customers, but too often those websites turn into roadblocks instead of tools for growth. They slow down, break when updated, or become difficult to maintain without hiring a full-time developer. Modern marketing teams need something different: websites that are fast, flexible, and built to evolve

Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.

Compare how Startpage stacks up next to non-private search engines.

Disco is an open-source PaaS that turns any Linux server into a deployment platform. Get the git push workflow you love, without the per-app markup.

Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Innovation is a tricky subject. The precise details of how to do it are not well studied, at least not under the name “innovation”. In addition, multiple...

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