System Architecture

Implementing strong security measures will not only stop attackers, but help you stay informed about current threats while protecting your organization.

Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively

8.1. Numeric Types 8.1.1. Integer Types 8.1.2. Arbitrary Precision Numbers 8.1.3. Floating-Point Types 8.1.4. Serial Types Numeric types consist of two-, …

Historically, when I wanted to store data in a database, I (or the project/team I was on) used an incrementing integer to uniquely identify each row (e.g. the SERIAL type in PostgreSQL).

How we improved sharing and managing our application secrets within a team environment.

Get to know Caretta - a lightweight, standalone tool that instantly creates a visual network map of the services running in your cluster. Caretta leverages eBPF to efficiently map service network interactions in a K8s cluster, and Grafana to query & visualize the collected data.

A look at how several dev teams significantly reduced database costs while actually improving database performance.

Accessing Wolfram|Alpha's computational knowledge with ChatGPT--an ideal alliance of precise combination with human-like expression of ideas. Stephen Wolfram explains how.

Mobile,fixed network testing. Load,conformance,emulation,feature,3GPP standards test. 5G,4G/LTE,3G/UMTS,IoT,IMS Core,VoIP,SIP,radius,diameter,sctp,tcp,udp,P25 ISSI/CSSI,MCX,mission critical communications.

While the basic idea of vector processing is simple, the details can get complex. The purpose of this story is to explain the fundamental idea of vector processing and how that has been implemented…

If you downloaded PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between Dec. 25, 2022, and Dec. 30, 2022, you've got trouble.

Multi-access edge computing helps to move traffic computation from central cloud to more of an edge environment. Learn more about MEC.

Adopt an API-Led architecture with Apache APISIX.

Telecommunication organizations need to ensure they have the necessary resources and technology to maintain service uptime SLAs.

Although an API-led approach is key to enable agility, several hurdles can develop due to the wide use of APIs and API reuse.

What keeps your systems running? People do. No matter how sophisticated your technology, it will only succeed with a social system designed to support it effectively.

Default setup is a new way to automatically set up code scanning on your repository, without the use of a .yaml file.

The IO container forms a monad. An article for object-oriented programmers.

Modernizing high-performance computing.

Hello, world! Announcing the launch of a new way to learn how to create Web Components.

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Learning Digital Identity, which will be available January 2023.

The kernel's memory-management developers have been busy before and during the holidays; the result is a number of patch sets making significant changes to that subsystem. It is time for a quick look at three of those projects. Two of them aim to increase the sharing of page tables between processes, while the third takes advantage of the multi-generational LRU to create a better picture of what a process's working set actually is.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a multi-platform cloud-based endpoint protection product that comprises multiple capabilities and features. There are many moving parts that make up Defender for Endpoint, and many of these parts require network connectivity. Disconnected and air-gapped environment...

I am making more progress on automating my Mastodon world. Throughout the holidays I spent time getting to know the Mastodon API, forking and iterating upon an OpenAPI for the API, and generating a mix of capability API collections that accomplished what I was needing to do with the Mastodon API. Now I am getting to work automating my different Mastodon instances using what I have built. I am not entirely sure what I am automating, as this will vary from instance to instance. The mastodon.apievangelist.com domain will require a very different approach to API automation than mastodon.kinlane.com will. One is professional and one is personal. Adding even more complexity to the federated chaos, I will not just be automating this across domains I control, but because of the nature of my research, I will be automating some aspects of this using many of the leading Mastodon instances. While talking to people during this work I (once again) realize how much I assume of people when it comes to onboarding with APIs, with Postman, and being able to follow, let alone put to use anything I am building. In an effort to bridge this divide I am going to keep polishing how I talk about it here on the blog, producing many different narratives for how I can introduce people to this work with the federated Mastodon API. A significant portion of what I am building involves understanding what Postman does, and how Postman works with any API, including the Mastodon API. To follow along it helps to have a healthy understanding of Postman which you can get via the learning center, but beyond that it helps to understand how the Postman building blocks help automate activity across federated APIs like Mastodon, by leveraging these Postman platform capabilities.