System Architecture

Bobcat is the new Critter Stack tool for Spec Driven Development and for making our own integration testing more reliable. It projects readable specifications out of the xUnit.net or TUnit tests you already have, brings back the table driven testing ideas from Storyteller, reports failures in a way an AI agent can actually use, and has a compiled Gherkin model for when Given/When/Then is the right fit.

The buildings and physical infrastructure for a new hyperscale data-center region are complete. Power is live and redundant, the cooling loops are balanced,

Behind the scenes of Codename.py: using Python’s NLTK to generate, clean, and tag adjectives, nouns, and animals for naming things better than 'project2'.

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A single-producer single-consumer (SPSC) queue is a great example of how far constraints can take a design. In this post, you will learn how to implement a ring …

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Credit: linardi91 / pixabay Engineers, we use a lot of words to talk about architecture, but at a fundamental level, I think architecture is about making good decisions easier, on a timeframe you c…

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PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.

Nuclear power really hit its stride in the 1950s. In the post-war period, there was a rush to develop peaceful uses for splitting the atom, beyond its application as a weapon of war. Soon enough, n…

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How would drones have changed the SOF mission in Mogadishu that Americans know as Black Hawk Down? Would the battle have ended in a deadlier fashion and what lessons can we draw for modern warfare?

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Your Emacs is full of markup-free hyperlinks embedded in your text, but you're missing a way to utilize them. Think about a file path in a README, a URL in an e...

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One thing that bothered me about Imprint’s product after joining was our lack of passkey support. Passkey support is a rare opportunity to increase resiliency to phishing attacks while simultaneously reducing login friction. If it’s good for our members, our partners, and our product, it felt like something we should have already shipped. Nonetheless, it was hard to get it onto the roadmap alongside everything else we were working on.

composing two broad approaches, one based on analytical decomposition that aims to maintain control over a system, and one based on a perspective of complex systems that resist analysis, and implications for systems design.

A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest architecture in computing teach us about where agents and memory are headed?

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A remodel left me with lights over two fireplace benches wired to separate switches, so turning them on meant a walk to both ends of the room. Rather than tear open the wall, I let Home Assistant and a pair of Inovelli switches make the two behave as one. The wiring doesn’t have to change if software controls the switches.

You don't really need to be good at prompting anymore. The thing to get good at is the loop that does the prompting for you. It's five building blocks plus s...

Hi there. I’m Bill “LtRandolph” Clark, and I’m the engineering manager for the Champions team on LoL . I’ve worked on several different teams on League over the past years, but one focus has been consistent: I’m obsessed with tech debt. I…